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 371
... centuries . By the thirteenth century , an earlier story of an agreement between Theophilus of Adana and the Devil had developed into the writing of the document in human blood . Other early writers whose stories of pacts were borrowed ...
... centuries . By the thirteenth century , an earlier story of an agreement between Theophilus of Adana and the Devil had developed into the writing of the document in human blood . Other early writers whose stories of pacts were borrowed ...
Page 475
... century . A Catholic's duty was to denounce to the Inquisition any person who enter- tained familiars or spirits , who used any kind of divination or made circles to con- jure demons , who employed astrology for fortunetelling , who ...
... century . A Catholic's duty was to denounce to the Inquisition any person who enter- tained familiars or spirits , who used any kind of divination or made circles to con- jure demons , who employed astrology for fortunetelling , who ...
Page 518
... century , Alphonsus de Spina ( 1458 ) in the fifteenth , and Samuel de Cassini ( 1505 ) in the sixteenth century . The theories of the Inquisition about witchcraft were soon adopted by other church courts as well as by the secular ...
... century , Alphonsus de Spina ( 1458 ) in the fifteenth , and Samuel de Cassini ( 1505 ) in the sixteenth century . The theories of the Inquisition about witchcraft were soon adopted by other church courts as well as by the secular ...
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