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 324
... sentenced Roulet to death , but , oddly enough , he appealed to the Parlement of Paris , which commuted the sentence to two years in the insane asylum of St. - Germain - des - Près , with in- struction in religion , " which he had for ...
... sentenced Roulet to death , but , oddly enough , he appealed to the Parlement of Paris , which commuted the sentence to two years in the insane asylum of St. - Germain - des - Près , with in- struction in religion , " which he had for ...
Page 380
... sentenced Jehenne to burning . Since she appeared to be preg . nant , and midwives found her five months advanced , sentence was postponed . Jehenne was not executed until eight months later ; the calendar of events read as follows ...
... sentenced Jehenne to burning . Since she appeared to be preg . nant , and midwives found her five months advanced , sentence was postponed . Jehenne was not executed until eight months later ; the calendar of events read as follows ...
Page 460
... sentence we relax you and your accomplices as limbs of Satan to the secular court , actually and effectually , for most worthy and legiti- mate punishment according to its own secular provisions . The sentencing and execution by the ...
... sentence we relax you and your accomplices as limbs of Satan to the secular court , actually and effectually , for most worthy and legiti- mate punishment according to its own secular provisions . The sentencing and execution by the ...
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