The Encyclopedia of Witchcraft and DemonologyAn historical and human compendium, from original sources in the world's greatest libraries, describing the witches' sabbat and pact, incubi and succubi, eyewitness reports of trials, werewolves, and vampires, sexual relations with the devil, demoniacal possession and exorcism, poltergeists, barbarous tortures, and the theological and legal theories of inquisition, witchcraft and demonology. |
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... church and one who regularly attended serv- ices might be equally guilty of witchcraft . What linked them was the denial of God in their minds and , by an act of decision , join- ing the spiritual forces of what the church called evil ...
... church and one who regularly attended serv- ices might be equally guilty of witchcraft . What linked them was the denial of God in their minds and , by an act of decision , join- ing the spiritual forces of what the church called evil ...
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... Church , and I wish to live in union with the Church , without ever straying from it . In witness whereof my mark . At the start of her life imprisonment " on the bread of grief and the water of afflic- tion " —not in the church prison ...
... Church , and I wish to live in union with the Church , without ever straying from it . In witness whereof my mark . At the start of her life imprisonment " on the bread of grief and the water of afflic- tion " —not in the church prison ...
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... Church , and not subject to the fluctuations of men's opinions about right and wrong . This Church , while it might modify and deepen these concepts of the way and the life to be followed by all men , had the exclusive key to man's ...
... Church , and not subject to the fluctuations of men's opinions about right and wrong . This Church , while it might modify and deepen these concepts of the way and the life to be followed by all men , had the exclusive key to man's ...
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