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Page 96
... became involved in a law- suit when Felix Thorel , aged forty , charged the village priest with defamation of char- acter for calling him a witch . The unheard- of events at his parsonage , Father Tinel thought , were too complicated to ...
... became involved in a law- suit when Felix Thorel , aged forty , charged the village priest with defamation of char- acter for calling him a witch . The unheard- of events at his parsonage , Father Tinel thought , were too complicated to ...
Page 130
... became devils , specifically 133 , 306 , 668. One sixteenth - century cyber- netician ( 1567 ) counted 66 princes com- manding 6,660,000 devils . Another esti- mated more precisely 7,409,127 demons commanded by 79 infernal princes ...
... became devils , specifically 133 , 306 , 668. One sixteenth - century cyber- netician ( 1567 ) counted 66 princes com- manding 6,660,000 devils . Another esti- mated more precisely 7,409,127 demons commanded by 79 infernal princes ...
Page 491
... became a corpse ( which the devil had animated to tempt the saint to sin ) . In consequence of such visions , the fear of the succubus became enshrined in a famous Ambrosian hymn ( " Procul recedant som- nia " ) — “ Let all dreams and ...
... became a corpse ( which the devil had animated to tempt the saint to sin ) . In consequence of such visions , the fear of the succubus became enshrined in a famous Ambrosian hymn ( " Procul recedant som- nia " ) — “ Let all dreams and ...
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