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 209
... Hand of Glory . Many grimoires and handbooks of magic describe the hand of glory , a gruesome device sometimes fea- tured in trials for witchcraft . The sorcerer wrapped the hand of a hanged man in a piece of shroud , drew it tight to ...
... Hand of Glory . Many grimoires and handbooks of magic describe the hand of glory , a gruesome device sometimes fea- tured in trials for witchcraft . The sorcerer wrapped the hand of a hanged man in a piece of shroud , drew it tight to ...
Page 241
... Hand of Glory . Many grimoires and handbooks of magic describe the hand of glory , a gruesome device sometimes fea- tured in trials for witchcraft . The sorcerer wrapped the hand of a hanged man in a piece of shroud , drew it tight to ...
... Hand of Glory . Many grimoires and handbooks of magic describe the hand of glory , a gruesome device sometimes fea- tured in trials for witchcraft . The sorcerer wrapped the hand of a hanged man in a piece of shroud , drew it tight to ...
Page 434
... hand , Samuel Wardwell , who first made a confession but later denied it , was hanged . In all , 55 , of the 150 ... hand to the devil's book ; whereas , she said , she never did . I told her I believed she had set her hand to the book ...
... hand , Samuel Wardwell , who first made a confession but later denied it , was hanged . In all , 55 , of the 150 ... hand to the devil's book ; whereas , she said , she never did . I told her I believed she had set her hand to the book ...
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