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 330
... Maleficia . Misfortunes , injuries , and ca- lamities suffered by persons , animals , or property , for which no immediate explana- tion could be found , were called maleficia . These mishaps were attributed to the vin- dictive malice ...
... Maleficia . Misfortunes , injuries , and ca- lamities suffered by persons , animals , or property , for which no immediate explana- tion could be found , were called maleficia . These mishaps were attributed to the vin- dictive malice ...
Page 331
... maleficia all occurrences where the effect was more than could reasonably be expected in na- ture . On this basis , he concluded that all maleficia involved an implicit pact to serve Satan . Hence those trials , especially in Eng- land ...
... maleficia all occurrences where the effect was more than could reasonably be expected in na- ture . On this basis , he concluded that all maleficia involved an implicit pact to serve Satan . Hence those trials , especially in Eng- land ...
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... maleficia , involving the damnum minatum , the threat to work ill , and the ensuing evil , the malum secutum . A certain woman , Apra Hoselotte- had a son in the service of Jean Hale- court , whom his master had cruelly pun- ished for a ...
... maleficia , involving the damnum minatum , the threat to work ill , and the ensuing evil , the malum secutum . A certain woman , Apra Hoselotte- had a son in the service of Jean Hale- court , whom his master had cruelly pun- ished for a ...
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