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 175
... witnesses avouching upon their own knowledge either that the party accused hath made league with the Devil , From his experience as self - appointed or hath done some known practices of Possibly the most amazing evidence ever admitted ...
... witnesses avouching upon their own knowledge either that the party accused hath made league with the Devil , From his experience as self - appointed or hath done some known practices of Possibly the most amazing evidence ever admitted ...
Page 553
... witnesses , as in the trial of Cicely Celles at St. Osyth in 1582. Even the dead were not exempt from public display . Eighty - year - old Alice Sam- uel was hanged as a witch on the evidence of five hysterical children [ see Warboys ...
... witnesses , as in the trial of Cicely Celles at St. Osyth in 1582. Even the dead were not exempt from public display . Eighty - year - old Alice Sam- uel was hanged as a witch on the evidence of five hysterical children [ see Warboys ...
Page 554
... witnesses , the judge was not bound to comply ; but if the witnesses stated their readiness to repeat their evidence before the prisoner , the judge might permit their ap- pearance . In rare cases , the judge might appoint a defense ...
... witnesses , the judge was not bound to comply ; but if the witnesses stated their readiness to repeat their evidence before the prisoner , the judge might permit their ap- pearance . In rare cases , the judge might appoint a defense ...
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