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The above verse, in its quaint old French, is an allusion to the well-known Decree of the Council of Ancyra, referring to Certain wicked women, reverting to Satan, and seduced by the illusions and phantasms of demons, who believe and profess that they ride at night with Diana This decree was echoed in an episcopal statute of Auger de Montfaucon, 1279-1304, which says, Nulla mulier se nocturnis equitare cum Diana paganorum, vel cum Herodiade seu Bensozia, et in numina multitudinem profiteatur....
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La Reynie soon discovered that La Bosse, La Vigoureux, and their accomplices were small fry. The big fish was the woman who directed their organisation, Catherine Monvoisin, commonly known as La Voisin. She has been described as one of the most amazing criminals in history. a description with which I agree. She has also been described as a witch, a description with which I definitely disagree, for reasons which I will set out further on. La Voisin was no back-street fortune-teller. To her house...
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interview just quoted. this is the only possible connection between this crime and witchcraft in Britain, this is precisely the place where the connection breaks down. With regard to the Italian prisoners-of-war in the neighbourhood, the witch-hunters cannot have it both ways if the killer was an Italian, then the crime is nothing to do with a British witch coven. 3. It is alleged that an identical crime was committed on the same day, February 14th, in 1875, at nearby Long Compton, when a woman...
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practical experiment just what would happen if they sprayed a room with ether, and then introduced fire of any kind, such as candies or burning incense, into it. Still, perhaps that is just as well the resulting explosion might well have proved fatal. and I should be sorry to see a grand police officer like Bob Fabian come to such a sticky end. If anyone doubts my word on this, don't try it yourself ask a hospital anaesthetist. If the drug sprayed were chloroform, the most likely result would...
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to investigate them rationally. The Church denounced Spiritualism as diabolical, which it was not, and as a revival of the old witchcraft, which in many respects it was. 1857. A French Spiritualist, Allan Kardec, upon instructions from his Guides, reintroduced the ancient doctrine of reincarnation publicly into Europe. 1892-1897. One of the greatest impostures of modern times was perpetrated in France by two Freethinkers, Dr. Charles Hacks and Gabriel Jogand. They published a series of...
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throughout the centuries and the modern purveyors of fear and folly may well take it to their consciences. Such writers need not flatter themselves that I have written this chapter to confute them on the contrary, they are obviously people who have made up their minds upon the subject, and are not going to be distracted by mere proof. My purpose here has been to undeceive the public as to the reliability of the statements made, to expose the harm such evil nonsense can do, and to ensure that...
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Now, with regard to the proposition that many people in high places are involved in black magic, I do not know whether it is true or not. I have tried for many years to find any traces and have failed, but I think it very doubtful, and I shall not believe it until I receive evidence there is, however, one thing which I do know to be true. A good number of people of rank and education are Spiritualists, and they often occupy some public position. They do not always care for their belief to be...
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Tradition which has been preserved for generations. This is, indeed, the traditional way in which witchcraft was spread and preserved the children of witch families were taught by their parents, and initiated at an early age. In fact, this is very probably the origin of all those frightful stories of the witches bringing babies to the sabbat to eat them what really happened was that witch parents dared not omit to have their babies baptised, for fear of instantly arousing suspicion, so they...