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 465
... woman burned for intercourse with the devil . Carpzov and Pott also told many stories of this nature , including one of a woman at Augsburg , who in 1531 gave birth to a two - footed serpent . Legends , perhaps arising from rumors ...
... woman burned for intercourse with the devil . Carpzov and Pott also told many stories of this nature , including one of a woman at Augsburg , who in 1531 gave birth to a two - footed serpent . Legends , perhaps arising from rumors ...
Page 478
... woman who had never stirred from the room , nevertheless such a woman did go to a sabbat , and witnesses testifying to that effect must be believed . They ex- plained the apparent contradiction by the devil's impersonating the body of the ...
... woman who had never stirred from the room , nevertheless such a woman did go to a sabbat , and witnesses testifying to that effect must be believed . They ex- plained the apparent contradiction by the devil's impersonating the body of the ...
Page 556
... woman named Babel Znickel . An old woman . Seventh execution , seven persons : A little girl , a stranger , aged twelve . A stranger . A stranger , a woman . A village mayor , a stranger . Three women , stran- gers . At the same time ...
... woman named Babel Znickel . An old woman . Seventh execution , seven persons : A little girl , a stranger , aged twelve . A stranger . A stranger , a woman . A village mayor , a stranger . Three women , stran- gers . At the same time ...
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