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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... delusion alive , long after it had been rejected by the other leaders of society , were to be found among the clergy . Richard Baxter makes a good example ; a renowned Presbyterian teacher , in 1691 he wrote his Certainty of the World ...
... delusion alive , long after it had been rejected by the other leaders of society , were to be found among the clergy . Richard Baxter makes a good example ; a renowned Presbyterian teacher , in 1691 he wrote his Certainty of the World ...
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... delusion , al- though many indictments still charged simple acts of maleficia . Fantastic as the Elizabethan trials had been , they were based on some groping effort to distinguish right from wrong . " Wrong " was the Devil busily ...
... delusion , al- though many indictments still charged simple acts of maleficia . Fantastic as the Elizabethan trials had been , they were based on some groping effort to distinguish right from wrong . " Wrong " was the Devil busily ...
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... delusion brought on by drugs . Even the credulous Alphonsus de Spina in 1467 thought the sabbat no more than a delusion evoked by the malice of the Devil . In 1494 , however , the Repertorium Inquisitorum ar- gued that if the sabbat ...
... delusion brought on by drugs . Even the credulous Alphonsus de Spina in 1467 thought the sabbat no more than a delusion evoked by the malice of the Devil . In 1494 , however , the Repertorium Inquisitorum ar- gued that if the sabbat ...
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