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 248
... King James charged the Edinburgh jury with " an assize of error " for dis- missing the indictment of witchcraft ... King's most excellent Maj- esty in his book against witches intituled the Demonology hath set forth that the things ...
... King James charged the Edinburgh jury with " an assize of error " for dis- missing the indictment of witchcraft ... King's most excellent Maj- esty in his book against witches intituled the Demonology hath set forth that the things ...
Page 277
... King James was a firm believer in witchcraft ; at the end of his reign in England in 1628 , James had become just as firm a skeptic . The King's credulity was confirmed by the trial of the North Berwick Witches , who were made to ...
... King James was a firm believer in witchcraft ; at the end of his reign in England in 1628 , James had become just as firm a skeptic . The King's credulity was confirmed by the trial of the North Berwick Witches , who were made to ...
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Rossell Hope Robbins. King James's Tolbooth Speech [ King James charged the Edinburgh jury with " an assize of error ... King's most excellent Maj- esty in his book against witches intituled the Demonology hath set forth that the things ...
Rossell Hope Robbins. King James's Tolbooth Speech [ King James charged the Edinburgh jury with " an assize of error ... King's most excellent Maj- esty in his book against witches intituled the Demonology hath set forth that the things ...
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