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 475
... sorcery as coming under secular control ( thereby dismissing its essential heresy ) . The problem of heresy and sorcery was earnestly debated , but the area of legitimate doubt remained exten- sive , as was granted by the Repertorium ...
... sorcery as coming under secular control ( thereby dismissing its essential heresy ) . The problem of heresy and sorcery was earnestly debated , but the area of legitimate doubt remained exten- sive , as was granted by the Repertorium ...
Page 547
... sorcery , yet magic repre- sented the other aspect of this " cozening art . " A belief in magic was the substructure of witchcraft long before the element of heresy was added ; it existed as the essence of witchcraft in the popular mind ...
... sorcery , yet magic repre- sented the other aspect of this " cozening art . " A belief in magic was the substructure of witchcraft long before the element of heresy was added ; it existed as the essence of witchcraft in the popular mind ...
Page 548
... sorcery and magic , all treated with serious credulity . In such a climate , sorcery was treated as commonplace , not exceptional . Some time about the middle of the four teenth century , witchcraft began to acquire a different form ...
... sorcery and magic , all treated with serious credulity . In such a climate , sorcery was treated as commonplace , not exceptional . Some time about the middle of the four teenth century , witchcraft began to acquire a different form ...
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