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... delusion alive , long after it had been rejected by the other leaders of society , were to be found among the clergy . Richard Baxter makes a good example ; a renowned Presbyterian teacher , in 1691 he wrote his Certainty of the World ...
... delusion alive , long after it had been rejected by the other leaders of society , were to be found among the clergy . Richard Baxter makes a good example ; a renowned Presbyterian teacher , in 1691 he wrote his Certainty of the World ...
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... delusion , al- though many indictments still charged simple acts of maleficia . Fantastic as the Elizabethan trials had been , they were based on some groping effort to distinguish right from wrong . " Wrong " was the Devil busily ...
... delusion , al- though many indictments still charged simple acts of maleficia . Fantastic as the Elizabethan trials had been , they were based on some groping effort to distinguish right from wrong . " Wrong " was the Devil busily ...
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... delusion brought on by drugs . Even the credulous Alphonsus de Spina in 1467 thought the sabbat no more than a delusion evoked by the malice of the Devil . In 1494 , however , the Repertorium Inquisitorum ar- gued that if the sabbat ...
... delusion brought on by drugs . Even the credulous Alphonsus de Spina in 1467 thought the sabbat no more than a delusion evoked by the malice of the Devil . In 1494 , however , the Repertorium Inquisitorum ar- gued that if the sabbat ...
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