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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... Sister Anne of the Nativity by Leviathan Sister Barbara of St. Michael by Ancitif Sister Louise de Pinteville by Arfaxat Sister Anne by Consague Sister Marie Cheron by Grongade Sister Mary of Jesus by Phaëton Sister Elizabeth by Asmodeus ...
... Sister Anne of the Nativity by Leviathan Sister Barbara of St. Michael by Ancitif Sister Louise de Pinteville by Arfaxat Sister Anne by Consague Sister Marie Cheron by Grongade Sister Mary of Jesus by Phaëton Sister Elizabeth by Asmodeus ...
Page 128
... Sister Mary of the Holy Sacrament said she was possessed by Puti- far , and Sister Mary of the Holy Ghost by Dagon , both devils sent by the witches , Father Picard and Sister Madeleine Bavent ( Récit véritable , 1643 ) . Other nuns ...
... Sister Mary of the Holy Sacrament said she was possessed by Puti- far , and Sister Mary of the Holy Ghost by Dagon , both devils sent by the witches , Father Picard and Sister Madeleine Bavent ( Récit véritable , 1643 ) . Other nuns ...
Page 408
... Sister Maria . One of the later victims of the witch delusion , caught in the final swirl of ebb tide which sometimes sweeps with greater force just because it is on the way out , was the sub - prioress of the Premonstratensian convent ...
... Sister Maria . One of the later victims of the witch delusion , caught in the final swirl of ebb tide which sometimes sweeps with greater force just because it is on the way out , was the sub - prioress of the Premonstratensian convent ...
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