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 95
... girl to fake fits and report she was cured by the in- tercession of the Virgin Mary . In this way , the priest's chapel at Aldington , Kent , would become a shrine , and " pil- grimages being made to it , he might draw those advantages ...
... girl to fake fits and report she was cured by the in- tercession of the Virgin Mary . In this way , the priest's chapel at Aldington , Kent , would become a shrine , and " pil- grimages being made to it , he might draw those advantages ...
Page 374
... girl , Dominique Falvet , who , while picking rushes with her mother , was accosted by a strange man . " The girl was made to swear an oath to this man , and he marked her on the brow with his nail as a sign of her new allegiance , and ...
... girl , Dominique Falvet , who , while picking rushes with her mother , was accosted by a strange man . " The girl was made to swear an oath to this man , and he marked her on the brow with his nail as a sign of her new allegiance , and ...
Page 395
... girl allegedly pos- sessed by a devil . According to her mother , the girl had des fleurs blanches during menstruation . The doctors , however , ex- amined the discharges and found a viru- lent gonorrhea [ chaudepisse ] ; midwives found ...
... girl allegedly pos- sessed by a devil . According to her mother , the girl had des fleurs blanches during menstruation . The doctors , however , ex- amined the discharges and found a viru- lent gonorrhea [ chaudepisse ] ; midwives found ...
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