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 175
... evidence ever admitted at an English. 175 For true evidence proving witchcraft , Perkins demanded : 1. Free and voluntary confession of the crime , made by the party suspected and accused after examination . [ If the accused refused to ...
... evidence ever admitted at an English. 175 For true evidence proving witchcraft , Perkins demanded : 1. Free and voluntary confession of the crime , made by the party suspected and accused after examination . [ If the accused refused to ...
Page 176
... evidence provided in the handbooks could be swept to one side . One witness was a huntsman who , while following a rabbit behind a bush , Evidence in Witch Trials , Europe . In * 1670 The Rouen witch trials [ see Louis these. Evidence in ...
... evidence provided in the handbooks could be swept to one side . One witness was a huntsman who , while following a rabbit behind a bush , Evidence in Witch Trials , Europe . In * 1670 The Rouen witch trials [ see Louis these. Evidence in ...
Page 478
... evidence on the basis of the unreality of the sabbat , but on the grounds that the devil can imper- sonate the guiltless ; hence judges , who are aware of this dilemma , are forced to con- vict on even more unreliable " conjectures and ...
... evidence on the basis of the unreality of the sabbat , but on the grounds that the devil can imper- sonate the guiltless ; hence judges , who are aware of this dilemma , are forced to con- vict on even more unreliable " conjectures and ...
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