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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... accomplices . The confessions of witches authenticated the experts , and the denunciations ensured a continuing supply of victims . Throughout France and Ger- many this procedure became standardized ; repeated year after year , in time ...
... accomplices . The confessions of witches authenticated the experts , and the denunciations ensured a continuing supply of victims . Throughout France and Ger- many this procedure became standardized ; repeated year after year , in time ...
Page 429
... accomplices , without external proof from other parties , is insufficient to justify even arrest . Moreover , my experience leads to the conviction that , of those availing them- selves of the Edict of Grace , three - quar- ters and ...
... accomplices , without external proof from other parties , is insufficient to justify even arrest . Moreover , my experience leads to the conviction that , of those availing them- selves of the Edict of Grace , three - quar- ters and ...
Page 460
... accomplices who have been or are truly apostates , idolaters , rebels from the most holy faith , deniers and mockers of Almighty God , sodom- ites , and perpetrators of the foulest crimes , adulterers , fornicators , sorcerers , witches ...
... accomplices who have been or are truly apostates , idolaters , rebels from the most holy faith , deniers and mockers of Almighty God , sodom- ites , and perpetrators of the foulest crimes , adulterers , fornicators , sorcerers , witches ...
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