The Encyclopedia of Witchcraft and DemonologyA full-scale compendium of fact, history and legend, from original sources, about witchcraft and demonology, covering demonic possession and exorcism. Illustrated. |
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Page 282
To this extent only, a statement in the thirteenth-century manual on ethics, Sefer
Hasidim, held true for Jewish “witchcraft”: “As the Gentiles do, so do the Jews.”
Joan of Arc. Just as in 1590 King James of Scotland believed in Agnes Sampson
...
To this extent only, a statement in the thirteenth-century manual on ethics, Sefer
Hasidim, held true for Jewish “witchcraft”: “As the Gentiles do, so do the Jews.”
Joan of Arc. Just as in 1590 King James of Scotland believed in Agnes Sampson
...
Page 478
Those authorities who retreated to the position that the woman just imagined she
went to a sabbat, nevertheless, found her Guilty because she maintained such
claims when fully awake in the questioning and because she believed the sabbat
...
Those authorities who retreated to the position that the woman just imagined she
went to a sabbat, nevertheless, found her Guilty because she maintained such
claims when fully awake in the questioning and because she believed the sabbat
...
Page 535
At first no one believed him, but, as he persisted, the Provost sent physicians to
examine him. The doctors, however, found him sane, and “his distemper only an
exulcerated conscience”; the Provost was therefore compelled to arrest him on
his ...
At first no one believed him, but, as he persisted, the Provost sent physicians to
examine him. The doctors, however, found him sane, and “his distemper only an
exulcerated conscience”; the Provost was therefore compelled to arrest him on
his ...
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Bibliographic information
| Title | The Encyclopedia of Witchcraft and Demonology |
| Author | Rossell Hope Robbins |
| Edition | illustrated, reprint |
| Publisher | Bonanza Books, 1981 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 22 May 2009 |
| ISBN | 0517362457, 9780517362457 |
| Length | 557 pages |
| Subjects | › Religion / General |
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