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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... secular arm . con- Let no obstacle whatever be set against these apostolic letters and ordinances . Let no man therefore in any way rashly oppose this page contrary to this declara- tion extending our authority and injunc- tion . But if ...
... secular arm . con- Let no obstacle whatever be set against these apostolic letters and ordinances . Let no man therefore in any way rashly oppose this page contrary to this declara- tion extending our authority and injunc- tion . But if ...
Page 500
... secular arm . Nevertheless , we ask , and that with ur- gency , the secular court to moderate its sentence so that effusion of blood and peril of death may be avoided . Yet any secular judge exercising clemency would be accused of ...
... secular arm . Nevertheless , we ask , and that with ur- gency , the secular court to moderate its sentence so that effusion of blood and peril of death may be avoided . Yet any secular judge exercising clemency would be accused of ...
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... secular court before 1390 [ see Paris Witch Trial ] conducted a trial for witchcraft ; the secular trials were concerned merely with poisons or love po- tions - acts , not ideas . The first treatises on witchcraft , including the first ...
... secular court before 1390 [ see Paris Witch Trial ] conducted a trial for witchcraft ; the secular trials were concerned merely with poisons or love po- tions - acts , not ideas . The first treatises on witchcraft , including the first ...
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