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 66
... story . As on other occasions in the narrative of Salem , the thought arises of a mastermind ( Mrs. Ann Putnam ) pulling the strings and devising strategy . The story had a grain of validity in that Cory , sixteen years previously , had ...
... story . As on other occasions in the narrative of Salem , the thought arises of a mastermind ( Mrs. Ann Putnam ) pulling the strings and devising strategy . The story had a grain of validity in that Cory , sixteen years previously , had ...
Page 225
... story was given by the Cistercian prior Caesarius of Heisterbach ( who re- peated the St. Bernard legend ) in his Dia- logus ( about 1230 ) . Caesarius vouched for this tale , as did his abbot and his fellow monk Gerard . A priest at ...
... story was given by the Cistercian prior Caesarius of Heisterbach ( who re- peated the St. Bernard legend ) in his Dia- logus ( about 1230 ) . Caesarius vouched for this tale , as did his abbot and his fellow monk Gerard . A priest at ...
Page 257
... story was given by the Cistercian prior Caesarius of Heisterbach ( who re- peated the St. Bernard legend ) in his Dia- logus ( about 1230 ) . Caesarius vouched for this tale , as did his abbot and his fellow monk Gerard . A priest at ...
... story was given by the Cistercian prior Caesarius of Heisterbach ( who re- peated the St. Bernard legend ) in his Dia- logus ( about 1230 ) . Caesarius vouched for this tale , as did his abbot and his fellow monk Gerard . A priest at ...
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