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... sabbat from an old woman who said she had attended such meetings since she was sixteen , which places the sabbat as early as 1400. To the early demonologist Johannes Nider ( 1435 ) , the sabbat was un- known , but the anonymous French ...
... sabbat from an old woman who said she had attended such meetings since she was sixteen , which places the sabbat as early as 1400. To the early demonologist Johannes Nider ( 1435 ) , the sabbat was un- known , but the anonymous French ...
Page 418
... sabbat ; she smeared herself with flying ointment to fa- cilitate transvection , and rode on a forked stick or broom ... sabbat was celebrated variously accord- ing to the region : in Italy on Thursdays , in Lorraine on Wednesdays ...
... sabbat ; she smeared herself with flying ointment to fa- cilitate transvection , and rode on a forked stick or broom ... sabbat was celebrated variously accord- ing to the region : in Italy on Thursdays , in Lorraine on Wednesdays ...
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... sabbat resembles a fair of merchants , mingling together , angry and half crazed , arriving from all quarters , a surging crowd of some one hundred thou- sand devotees of Satan . " As the demonologists gained experience , the sabbat ...
... sabbat resembles a fair of merchants , mingling together , angry and half crazed , arriving from all quarters , a surging crowd of some one hundred thou- sand devotees of Satan . " As the demonologists gained experience , the sabbat ...
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