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 104
... confession . Another record from northeast France , likewise taken from official court records , is that of Father Dominic Gordel , con- victed by his own confession , and burned at St. - DiƩ in Lorraine in 1631 . Confessions of ...
... confession . Another record from northeast France , likewise taken from official court records , is that of Father Dominic Gordel , con- victed by his own confession , and burned at St. - DiƩ in Lorraine in 1631 . Confessions of ...
Page 105
... confession , and death if they denied witchcraft . They firmly maintained they had never been to the sab- bat and were no witches . Nevertheless , they were all burned alive , without strangula- tion , shrieking their innocence to the ...
... confession , and death if they denied witchcraft . They firmly maintained they had never been to the sab- bat and were no witches . Nevertheless , they were all burned alive , without strangula- tion , shrieking their innocence to the ...
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... Confession of Error by the Jurors at the Salem Witch. ( Continued from previous page ) If it cannot be granted that ... confession I did ; which con- fession , may it please the honored court , is altogether false and untrue . The very ...
... Confession of Error by the Jurors at the Salem Witch. ( Continued from previous page ) If it cannot be granted that ... confession I did ; which con- fession , may it please the honored court , is altogether false and untrue . The very ...
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