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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Page 205
... Guazzo's Compendium Maleficarum ( Milan , 1626 ) , first printed in 1608. " The greater the wickedness in which ... Guazzo wrote his encyclopedic Compen- dium Maleficarum [ Handbook of Witches ] to confute and expose , classify and ...
... Guazzo's Compendium Maleficarum ( Milan , 1626 ) , first printed in 1608. " The greater the wickedness in which ... Guazzo wrote his encyclopedic Compen- dium Maleficarum [ Handbook of Witches ] to confute and expose , classify and ...
Page 237
... Guazzo wrote his encyclopedic Compen- dium Maleficarum [ Handbook of Witches ] to confute and expose , classify and illustrate the practices of witchcraft . Guazzo was well - known as an assessor in trials for witchcraft ( though he ...
... Guazzo wrote his encyclopedic Compen- dium Maleficarum [ Handbook of Witches ] to confute and expose , classify and illustrate the practices of witchcraft . Guazzo was well - known as an assessor in trials for witchcraft ( though he ...
Page 374
... Guazzo ( 1626 ) . 7. Request to the Devil for their name to be written in the Book of Death . 8. Promise to sacrifice children to the Devil , a step which led to the stories of witches murdering children . The early Errores Gazariorum ...
... Guazzo ( 1626 ) . 7. Request to the Devil for their name to be written in the Book of Death . 8. Promise to sacrifice children to the Devil , a step which led to the stories of witches murdering children . The early Errores Gazariorum ...
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