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than their sisters at Aix-en-Provence (1611), Loudun (1634), or Louviers (1647);
but their story is similar and almost as lurid. Its chief difference is that the sex-
starved girls made accusations of improper conduct, not against their father- ...
than their sisters at Aix-en-Provence (1611), Loudun (1634), or Louviers (1647);
but their story is similar and almost as lurid. Its chief difference is that the sex-
starved girls made accusations of improper conduct, not against their father- ...
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Thus, when the Louviers Nuns were bewitched, 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 ...
Thus, when the Louviers Nuns were bewitched, 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 ...
Page 408
Renata, 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 of ...
Renata, 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 of ...
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| Title | The encyclopedia of witchcraft and demonology |
| Author | Rossell Hope Robbins |
| Edition | 2, reprint |
| Publisher | Crown Publishers, 1959 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 27 Dec 2006 |
| Length | 571 pages |
| Subjects | › Body, Mind & Spirit / Witchcraft & Wicca Religion / Demonology & Satanism |
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