Compendium Maleficarum: The Montague Summers EditionExtraordinary document (1608) on witchcraft and demonology offers striking insight into early 17th century mind. Serious discussions of witches' powers, poisons, crimes, more. Rare limited edition. |
Contents
The Nature and Extent of the Force of Imagination | 1 |
Of Artificial Magic | 3 |
Whether this Magic can produce True Effects | 7 |
That Witches Effect their Marvels with the Help of the Devil | 9 |
The Men of Old Accredited Witches with Marvellous Deeds | 11 |
Of the Witches Pact with the Devil | 13 |
By their Terrible Deeds and Imprecations Witches Produce Rain and Hail etc | 19 |
The Power of Witches over External Things | 22 |
Of Tying the Pvints | 91 |
Of Incendiary Witchcraft | 95 |
The Devil Wishes to Perpetuate the Race of Witches | 96 |
Of the Various Ways by which Witches Vent their Spite upon the Human Race | 98 |
Of the Different Diseases Brought by Demons | 105 |
Why God Permits the Devil so to Busy Himself with Witchcraft | 111 |
The Laws Observed by Witches in Causing and in Cur1ng Sickness | 121 |
Witches Use something of Religion in Healing Sickness | 123 |
Whether the Devil can Truly Enrich His Subjects | 25 |
Whether Witches Can by their Art Create any Living Thing | 28 |
Whether there Truly are Incubus and Succubus Devils and whether Children can be Generated by Copulation with them | 30 |
Whether Witches are Really Transported from Place to Place to their Nightly Assemblies | 33 |
Whether Witches can Transmute Bodies from One Form to Another | 50 |
Whether Witches have Power to Make Beasts Talk | 53 |
Whether the Devil can Make Men Insensible to Torture | 55 |
Whether by Witchcraft and Devils Work the Sexes can be Interchanged | 57 |
Whether the Spirits of the Dead can Appear to Men | 59 |
Of Apparitions of Demons or Spectres | 73 |
That Cacodemons Exercise their Magic Powers of their Own Will | 80 |
DEALING WITH THE VARIOUS KINDS OF WITCHCRAFT AND CERTAIN OTHER MATTERS WHICH SHOULD BE KNOWN | 83 |
Witches use Human Corpses for the Murder of Men | 88 |
Of Witches Pvisons | 90 |
Threatening or Beating Witches is the Best Method of Removing the Spells cast by Them | 124 |
After the Many Blasphemies Committed by Witches the Demon at last Tries to Induce them to Kill themselves with their Own Hands | 129 |
Upon Those who have once Fallen into his Power the Devil keeps a Tenacious Grip even when They stand Tortured before Their Judges or in Holy ... | 132 |
A Summary in a Few Words of All the Crimes of Witches | 135 |
The Devil Deceioes and Seduces by means of False Revelations or Apparitions | 136 |
Of the Appeal to God | 147 |
Of the Trial by S1ngle Combat | 149 |
Of Vulgar Purgation by Fire | 151 |
CHAPTER XX Of Superstitious Folk | 160 |
THE THIRD BOOK TREATING OF THE DIVINE REMEDIES FOR THOSE WHO ARE BEWITCHED AND OF CERTAIN OTHER MATTERS | 163 |
How to Distinguish Demoniacs and Those who are Simply Bewitched | 167 |
Recent Examples of the Mercy of God and the Tyranny of the Devil | 171 |
Of Dioine and Supernatural Remedies | 177 |
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Common terms and phrases
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References to this book
Bearing False Witness?: An Introduction to the Christian Countercult Douglas E. Cowan No preview available - 2003 |
Materializing Gender in Early Modern English Literature and Culture Will Fisher Limited preview - 2006 |