‎Witchcraft‎

‎Farmer, Bernard J.; Bride, W.W.; Pitt-Kethley, Victor; Richards, H. Grahame; Steele, Lieut.-Colonel Harwood; Mills, J.T.; Kenny, H.T.; Clayton, G.E.; Vivian, P.; Morris, James W.‎

‎The Wide World, The Magazine For Men, August (Aug) 1951 - R.C.M.P. (RCMP) Airmen‎

‎Pages xxiv, 257-320. Features: Cover illustration of Sugar-Loaf, Rio de Janeiro; The Haunted Mine - 1927 tale of a haunted goldmine in the Township of Timmins, Ontario, Canada; The Rest Cure - a sea captain's story of an unusual Atlantic voyage with a party of cowboys; Norfleet's Quest (part 2 of 2) - for three years Texas cattleman Frank Norfleet pursued a gang of confidence tricksters; Death of British Columbia lighthouse keeper Lawrence Dupuis; The Living Death - as strange 1925 a story from Mexico; The Sky-Riders - photo illustrated article about adventures of RCMP airmen maintaining law and order in Canada's vast Northern Territory; The Lawra Lion - a lion visits the Gold Coast; The Forbidden Path - two British officers in the Himalayan foothills; "Grey" - a close-up of manners and customs prevailing in the Northwest Territories of Canada near Yellowknife; First-Trippers; A Matter of Witchcraft - the strange story of a distinguished visitor who contrived to offend one of the wild tribes in the Territory of New Guinea; many nostalgic ads; The Australian Stockman - life of the drovers of Australia's vast Outback - article with photos and map; and more. Bit of pencil writing atop front cover, otherwise clean and unmarked with moderate wear. Covers beginning to loosen. Binding sound. A worthy vintage copy. Book‎

‎Summers, Montague‎

‎Witchcraft and Black Magic‎

‎228 pages. Index. Twenty-four halftone illustrations. Reprint of the 1946 first edition. Author was an English clergyman and prolific author of scholarly works on these and related topics. Prior owner's name atop half-title page, otherwise unmarked with average wear to brown cloth-covered boards. Binding intact. A sound copy. Book‎

‎Lane, Rose Wilder; 'Gulbrandsen'; Dawson, E.B.; Casserly, Lieut.-Col. Gordon; Walmsley, Leo; Wills, Archie; 'Traverse'; Miller, T.S.; Ward, E.D.; Butt-Thompson, Captain F.W.‎

‎The Wide World Magazine - True Stories of Adventure, April [Apr.] 1923, Vol L, No. 300: Search for the Grosvenor Treasure‎

‎Pages 442-528 plus 16 pages of great vintage ads, many illustrated. Features: A Soldier of Fortune - a story smuggled in bits from a French prison (part 1); A Woman in Unknown Albania - Part I - Mrs. Rose Wilder Lane describes her adventures among the remote northern mountains where tribal blood-feuds still flourish - article with photos; The Election at Rodeo - an account of the happenings at a town in Argentina on the occasion of the Presidential election of 1914; The Search for the Grosvenor Treasure - an account of the wreck of the Grosvenor on the lonely coast of Pondoland, South Africa, and operations of seekers of her sunken treasure of precious metals and stones - with photos; The Terror of the Terai - the story of one of the most remarkable elephant hunts on record - a twelve days' chase after a man-killing 'rogue'; Photo of a Venetian funeral; Three Asses in the Pyrenees - the humourous travels of a huband and wife with their donkey (part 4); Across the Pacific in a Chinese Junk - Captain George Ward and his voyage from Amoy, China to Victoria, British Columbia - article with photos, one of which includes Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford aboard the vessel; Forgotten - the terrible experience of a young surveyor off the coast of Trinidad; The Witching of the M'Bumbo - a tale of native witchcraft and trial by ordeal in Nigeria; Our Unlucky Day - an account of a series of disasters which struck a steamer, the S.S. Z_____ in the Gulf of Mexico; The Village of the Greeks - visit to a tiny hamlet in the Sicilian Mountains - with photos; The Gower Affair - a story of black magic at Porto Lokkoh on the West Coast of Africa. Above-average wear. Front cover loose but present. A worthy vintage copy. Book‎

‎Taylor, Carl N.; Marshall, J. Vance; Lees, Frederic; Forester, C.S.; Bradley, K.G.; Young, Captain M. Graham; farrar, E.; Russan, Ashmore; Nisbet, Hugh; Graham, Henry H.; Hives, Frank; Bodley, R.V.C.; Fairman, Captain S.M.E.; Tripp, P. Chamier; Melville‎

‎The Wide World Magazine, True Stories of Adventure, April [Apr.] 1930, Vol. 65, No. 385: The Kamalu "Ju-Ju" / Smuggling on the Spanish Main‎

‎Generously illustrated with black and white photos and illustrations. Features: The Taking of Hamjah's Head - One of the most elusive outlaws ever to trouble the Philppine Constabulary finally meets his fate - with photos; Smuggling on the Spanish Main - J. Vance Marshall became acquainted with two leading Spanish-American contrabandistas and became entangled in some most exciting happenings; The Man Who Was Buried Alive! - Part II (conclusion) of the amazing adventures of the "Marquis de Champaubert", with photos; The Voyage of the "Annie Marble" - part I - Quaint experiences of a three month journey through France in a fifteen-foot boat, with photos; "Monty" the Man-Eater - Part II - One of the most remarkable lion stories ever published; M'tagati (the Zulu word for witchcraft); Money For Nothing - A veteran prospector buys a mine for almost nothing but it produces thousands of pounds of gold, with photo; The Little Red Karen - Hugh Nisbet, a veteran of the forests of Burma and Siam, describes his encounter with Nanchai, a Siamese dacoit who was believed to be proof against bullet and sword - with two photos; Over Shoshone Falls in a Canvas Boat - Al Faussett, a former lumberjack, went over Idaho's Shoshone Falls - a cataract considerably higher than Niagara - in a twelve-foot canvas boat! (with phot of Faussett in his boat); The Kamalu "Ju-Ju" - Frank Hives aims to shut down a mysterious Nigerian Ju-Ju, or fetish, responsible for the disappearance of hundreds of victims; Sheep-Farming in the Sahara - A photo-illustrated account of how R.V.C. Bodley has partnered with an Arab chief to breed sheep, incidentally showing how the rulers of tribes deal with thieves and murderers who occasionally disturb the peace of the desert; Desert Ghosts - weird little story from the Egyptian desert; Black Magic - A queer tale from India; and more. 84 pages plus 28 pages of great ads. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A lovely vintage copy of this fascinating issue. Book‎

‎Phillips, Perrott (editor); Colin Wilson, Angus Hall, Perrott Williams, Roy Nash, Harry Weaver, Leslie Watkins, Ian Brown, Jeremy Pascall, Sally Brompton, Ian Ridpath‎

‎Out of this World: The Illustrated Library of the Bizarre and Extraordinary (24 volume set)‎

‎Very Good. No dust jacket. Light wear and slight discoloration to white covers. Age-toned paper. 8 3/4"w x 11"h. Each volume is around 110 pages. Many black and white photos and illustrations throughout. Fascinating articles such as "Did Spacemen Destroy Sodom?" and "So Satan Has The Last Laugh." Topics include: extraterrestrial life, Tutankhamun, Loch Ness monster, Lindbergh baby kidnapping, San Francisco Earthquake, reincarnation, witchcraft, black magic, occult, alchemists, UFOs, the Bermuda Triangle, Nostradamus, Aleister Crowley, Abominable Snowman and many more.‎

‎Lee, R. W. (Editor)‎

‎Historical Trials by the late Sir John MacDonell, K.C.B.‎

‎xvi, 234 pages. Many pages with top edge unopened. Bookplate of E. G. H. Moody on front pastedown. Some foxing on free endpapers. Slight fading of covers in parts. Spine bumped top/base.‎

‎BOURRE Jean-Paul‎

‎Magie et sorcellerie.‎

‎Broché. 130 pages. 21x28cm.‎

‎PALOU Jean‎

‎La sorcellerie.‎

‎Broché. 128 pages. Format de poche.‎

‎VEDRINE Hettie-Henriette - JORDY Jean‎

‎La magie et la sorcellerie.‎

‎Broché. 196 pages. Rousseurs.‎

‎OSUNA, Montse.‎

‎EL LIBRO DE MAGIA DE LA BRUJA MODERNA.‎

‎Ilustraciones de Miquel Zueras.‎

‎ZUBIZARRETA, Patxi.‎

‎GUARDA EL SECRETO. MANUAL PARA BRUJAS.‎

‎Ilustraciones de ElenaOdriozola.‎

‎Mauris (Jules)‎

‎Le second procès de la Vierge qui pleure.‎

‎Le prêtre Paul Desnoyer avait été agressé et flagellé par des membres de la secte de Notre Dame des Pleurs fondée par la visionnaire Marie Mesmin. Il était défendu par l'avocat Maurice Garçon. Envoi de Maurice Garçon à (Joseph) Pozzo di Borgo.‎

‎MORIN (A. S.)‎

‎Le prêtre et le sorcier. Statistique de la superstition.‎

‎“On s'occupe activement depuis quelques années de dresser des statistiques dans tous les genres, (...) il nous semble qu'il ne serait pas moins utile de dresser une statistique hagiographique”. Parmi les nombreuses croyances recensées: les pierres qui tournent, la Vierge Noire, la chemise de la Vierge, le Saint Prépuce, etc.. La deuxième partie est intitulée: les deux magies ou le prêtre et le sorcier. La troisième partie est consacrée aux croyances et pratiques d'Eure-et-Loir.‎

‎BONILLA, Luis.‎

‎Historia de la Hechicería y de las Brujas.‎

‎Madrid, Biblioteca Nueva, 1962, 21 x 15,5 cm., rústica editorial, láminas en papel couché, 301 págs.‎

‎Alexander Hislop‎

‎The Two Babylons: Or, the Papal Worship Proved to Be the Worship of Nimrod [Hardcover]‎

‎ABOUT THE BOOK:- Originally published as a pamphlet in 1853, and expanded to book length in 1858. The two Babylons seeks to demonstrate a connection between the ancient Babylonian mystery religions and practices of the Roman Catholic Church. Often controversial, yet always engaging, The Two Babylons comes from an era when disciplines such as archaeology and anthropology were in their infancy, and represents an early attempt to synthesize many of the findings of these areas and Biblical truth. The author methodically uses the ancient Chaldean Language and an abundance of Greek, Roman, Egyptian and other authors. Catholicism is just disguised Egyptian and Greek mystery religions by those that were in a dying Roman Empire trying to hold onto power in any way possible. So they created the facade at the Nicene Council in 327 AD called Catholicism. ABOUT THE AUTHOR:- Alexander Hislop (1807-1865) was a Free Church of Scotland minister known for his criticisms of the Roman Catholic Church. He was for a time Parish schoolmaster of Wick, Caithness. In 1831 he married Jane Pearson. He was for a time editor of the Scottish Guardian newspaper. As a probationer he joined the Free Church of Scotland at the disruption 1843. He was ordained in 1844 at the East Free Church, Arbroath, where he became senior minister in 1864. He died of a paralytic stroke, the next year after being ill for about two years. CONTENTS:- NOTE BY THE EDITOR . vii PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION . viii PREFACE TO THE THIRD EDITION .xi INTRODUCTION . 1 CHAPTER I. DISTINCTIVE CHARACTER OF THE Two SYSTEMS .4 CHAPTER II. OBJECTS OF WORSHIP. Section I. Trinity in Unity . 12 II. The Mother and Child, and the Original of the Child.19 Sub-Section I. The Child in Assyria.21 II. The Child in Egypt.40 III. The Child in Greece.46 iv. The Death of the Child.55 v. The Deification of the Child.58 III. The Mother of the Child.74 CHAPTER III. FESTIVALS. Section I. Christmas and Lady-day.91 II. Easter. 103 III. The Nativity of St. John.113 IV. The Feast of the Assumption.125 CHAPTER IV. DOCTRINE AND DISCIPLINE. Section I. Baptismal Regeneration.129 II. Justification by Works.144 III. The Sacrifice of the Mass.156 IV. Extreme Unction.165 V. Purgatory and Prayers for the Dead.167 CHAPTER V. RITES AND CEREMONIES. Section I. Idol Processions.171 II. Relic Worship.176 III. The Clothing and Crowning of Images.181 IV. The Rosary and the Worship of the Sacred Heart.187 V. Lamps and Wax-Candles.191 VI. The Sign of the Cross. 197 CHAPTER VI. RELIGIOUS ORDERS. Section I. The Sovereign Pontiff. 206 II. Priests, Monks, and Nuns.219 CHAPTER VII. THE TWO DEVELOPMENTS HISTORICALLY AND PROPHETICALLY CONSIDERED. Section I. The Great Red Dragon. 225 II. The Beast from the Sea.242 III. The Beast from the Earth.256 IV. The Image of the Beast. 263 V. The Name of the Beast, the Number of his Name the Invisible Head of the Papacy. 269 CONCLUSION. 282 APPENDIX. 291 INDEX. 325 The Title 'The Two Babylons: Or, the Papal Worship Proved to Be the Worship of Nimrod written/authored/edited by Alexander Hislop', published in the year 2017. The ISBN 9789351285915 is assigned to the Hardcover version of this title. This book has total of pp. 360 (Pages). The publisher of this title is Kalpaz Publications. This Book is in English. The subject of this book is Religion & Spirituality / Witchcraft & Paganism. Size of the book is 14.34 x 22.59 cms Vol:-‎

‎R. Campbell Thompson‎

‎The Devils and Evil Spirits of Babylonia: Evil Spirit Volume Vol. 1st [Hardcover] Volume Vol. 1st‎

‎ABOUT THE BOOK:- From the earliest times Eastern races, in common with the rest of mankind, have always held a firm belief in the existence of evil spirits, ghosts, and all kindred powers. The phenomena of death, the mysteries of disease and sickness, and all the other events of common occurrence in daily life gave rise to speculations about the unseen world, which gradually led to a distinction, although slight at all times, between good evil spirits. The early Semitic people of Babylonia, who ever they may have been or wherever they may have migrated from, found a theology ready to their hands in their adopted country, which they took over from its primitive inhabitants the Sumerians doubtless grafting to it many of the beliefs of their forefathers. The primitive Sumerian recognised three distinct classes of evil spirit, namely, first came the disembodied human soul which could find no rest and so wandered up and down the face of the earth, secondly, the gruesome spirits which were half human and half demon, and thirdly, the friends and devils who were of the same nature as the gods. Who rode on the noxious winds, or brought storms and pestilence. ABOUT THE AUTHOR:- R. Campbell Thompson, (1876-1941) was a British archaeologist, assyriologist, and cuneiformist. He excavated at Nineveh, Ur, Nebo, and Charchemish among many other sites. He was born in Kensington, and educated at colet Court, St. Paul school and Caius College, Cambridge, where he read oriental (Hebrew and Aramic) Languages. In 1918 Mesopotamia fell into British hands, and the trustees of the British Museum applied to have an archaeologist attached to the army in the field to protect antiquities from injury. As a captain in the Intelligence Service serving in the region and a former assistant in the British Museum R.C. Thompson was commissioned to start the work. After a short investigation of Ur, he dug at Shahrain and the mounds at Tell- al- Laham. After the First World War he held a fellowship at Merton College, Oxford. He died in 1941 aged 64 while serving in the Home Guard River Patrol on the River Thames. The Title 'The Devils and Evil Spirits of Babylonia: Evil Spirit written/authored/edited by R. Campbell Thompson', published in the year 2017. The ISBN 9789351285991 is assigned to the Hardcover version of this title. This book has total of pp. 277 (Pages). The publisher of this title is Kalpaz Publications. This Book is in English. The subject of this book is Religion & Spirituality / Witchcraft & Paganism. Size of the book is 14.34 x 22.59 cms Vol:- Vol. 1st‎

‎R. Campbell Thompson‎

‎The Devils and Evil Spirits of Babylonia: Fever Sickness and Headache Etc. Volume Vol. 2nd [Hardcover] Volume Vol. 2nd‎

‎ABOUT THE BOOK:- From the earliest times Eastern races, in common with the rest of mankind, have always held a firm belief in the existence of evil spirits, ghosts, and all kindred powers. The phenomena of death, the mysteries of disease and sickness, and all the other events of common occurrence in daily life gave rise to speculations about the unseen world, which gradually led to a distinction, although slight at all times, between good evil spirits. The early Semitic people of Babylonia, who ever they may have been or wherever they may have migrated from, found a theology ready to their hands in their adopted country, which they took over from its primitive inhabitants the Sumerians doubtless grafting to it many of the beliefs of their forefathers. The primitive Sumerian recognised three distinct classes of evil spirit, namely, first came the disembodied human soul which could find no rest and so wandered up and down the face of the earth, secondly, the gruesome spirits which were half human and half demon, and thirdly, the friends and devils who were of the same nature as the gods. Who rode on the noxious winds, or brought storms and pestilence. ABOUT THE AUTHOR:- R. Campbell Thompson, (1876-1941) was a British archaeologist, assyriologist, and cuneiformist. He excavated at Nineveh, Ur, Nebo, and Charchemish among many other sites. He was born in Kensington, and educated at colet Court, St. Paul school and Caius College, Cambridge, where he read oriental (Hebrew and Aramic) Languages. In 1918 Mesopotamia fell into British hands, and the trustees of the British Museum applied to have an archaeologist attached to the army in the field to protect antiquities from injury. As a captain in the Intelligence Service serving in the region and a former assistant in the British Museum R.C. Thompson was commissioned to start the work. After a short investigation of Ur, he dug at Shahrain and the mounds at Tell- al- Laham. After the First World War he held a fellowship at Merton College, Oxford. He died in 1941 aged 64 while serving in the Home Guard River Patrol on the River Thames. The Title 'The Devils and Evil Spirits of Babylonia: Fever Sickness and Headache Etc. written/authored/edited by R. Campbell Thompson', published in the year 2017. The ISBN 9789351286011 is assigned to the Hardcover version of this title. This book has total of pp. 235 (Pages). The publisher of this title is Kalpaz Publications. This Book is in English. The subject of this book is Religion & Spirituality / Witchcraft & Paganism. Size of the book is 14.34 x 22.59 cms Vol:- Vol. 2nd‎

‎R. Campbell Thompson‎

‎The Devils and Evil Spirits of Babylonia Volume 2 Vols. Set [Hardcover] Volume 2 Vols. Set‎

‎ABOUT THE BOOK:- From the earliest times Eastern races, in common with the rest of mankind, have always held a firm belief in the existence of evil spirits, ghosts, and all kindred powers. The phenomena of death, the mysteries of disease and sickness, and all the other events of common occurrence in daily life gave rise to speculations about the unseen world, which gradually led to a distinction, although slight at all times, between good evil spirits. The early Semitic people of Babylonia, who ever they may have been or wherever they may have migrated from, found a theology ready to their hands in their adopted country, which they took over from its primitive inhabitants the Sumerians doubtless grafting to it many of the beliefs of their forefathers. The primitive Sumerian recognised three distinct classes of evil spirit, namely, first came the disembodied human soul which could find no rest and so wandered up and down the face of the earth, secondly, the gruesome spirits which were half human and half demon, and thirdly, the friends and devils who were of the same nature as the gods. Who rode on the noxious winds, or brought storms and pestilence. ABOUT THE AUTHOR:- R. Campbell Thompson, (1876-1941) was a British archaeologist, assyriologist, and cuneiformist. He excavated at Nineveh, Ur, Nebo, and Charchemish among many other sites. He was born in Kensington, and educated at colet Court, St. Paul school and Caius College, Cambridge, where he read oriental (Hebrew and Aramic) Languages. In 1918 Mesopotamia fell into British hands, and the trustees of the British Museum applied to have an archaeologist attached to the army in the field to protect antiquities from injury. As a captain in the Intelligence Service serving in the region and a former assistant in the British Museum R.C. Thompson was commissioned to start the work. After a short investigation of Ur, he dug at Shahrain and the mounds at Tell- al- Laham. After the First World War he held a fellowship at Merton College, Oxford. He died in 1941 aged 64 while serving in the Home Guard River Patrol on the River Thames. The Title 'The Devils and Evil Spirits of Babylonia written/authored/edited by R. Campbell Thompson', published in the year 2017. The ISBN 9789351286110 is assigned to the Hardcover version of this title. This book has total of pp. 512 (Pages). The publisher of this title is Kalpaz Publications. This Book is in English. The subject of this book is Religion & Spirituality / Witchcraft & Paganism. Size of the book is 14.34 x 22.59 cms Vol:- 2 Vols. Set‎

‎Diane Grosklaus Witchcraft‎

‎The Devil and the Land of the Holy Cross:‎

‎Good. unknown‎

Bookseller reference : 80602 ISBN : 0292702280 9780292702288

‎Witchcraft‎

‎Firewood‎

‎Rise Above 2012-01-01. Vinyl. Used:Good. Rise Above unknown‎

Bookseller reference : DADAXB008RZF2M6

‎Witchcraft Trials Hale Matthew‎

‎Curious Cases and Amusing Actions at Law Including Some Trials of.‎

‎2000. ISBN-13: 9781584770121; ISBN-10: 1584770120. ISBN-13: 9781584770121; ISBN-10: 1584770120. Trials. Witchcraft. Curious Cases and Amusing Actions at Law Including Some Trials of Witches in the Seventeenth Century. Toronto: The Carswell Co. Limited 1916. vii 234 pp. Reprinted 2000 2010 by The Lawbook Exchange Ltd. ISBN-13: 9781584770121; ISBN-10: 1584770120. Hardcover cloth. New. $26.95 Fascinating and entertaining tales of cases and trials from the Birmingham Court of Requests such as "The meek husband and the bouncing wife" and "The servant and his two masters" a witchcraft trial held before Sir Matthew Hale 1664 taken down by an attendant at the proceedings and six New England Salem witchcraft trials from 1692. unknown‎

Bookseller reference : 60507 ISBN : 1584770120 9781584770121

‎BODIN JEAN. THE MOST IMPORTANT BOOK ON WITCHCRAFT OF THE ERA‎

‎De la demonomanie des sorciers.‎

‎Paris J. du Puys 1580. 4to. Contemporary full vellum wih contemporary handwritten title to spine. Binding somewhat warped but unrestored and tight. A mostly very faint damp stain to upper blak margin of some leaves not affecting text but otherwise internally very nice clean and fresh. Old owner's name to title-page Dufault and old acquisition note to front free end-paper. Woodcut title-vignette woodcut headpieces woodcut end-vignette and a few woodcut initials. A large copy with good margins. 14 252 recte: 256 ff. � Scarce first edition of Bodin's seminal "Demon-Mania" the most important book on witchcraft of the era. The work profoundly influenced the position on witchcraft of the following half century and directly influenced the course of witch trials of this period. The work is furthermore of fundamental importance to the understanding of Bodin's tripartite world picture and constitutes an invaluable supplement to his "Six livres de la r�publique".<br><br>"Jean Bodin's "On the Demon-Mania of Witches" De la d�monomanie des sorciers appeared in 1580 and rapidly became a major publishing success. It underwent at least twenty-three editions and was translated from its original French into German Italian and Latin. It was surely the most published work of the era on the subject of demons and witches. Because of its wide distribution it has been considered by generations of historians to have been an extremely influential book responsible in itself for large-scale prosecutions of witches in the four or five decades following its appearance." Pearl p. 9.<br><br>The present first edition constitutes not only the original version of the work but also the model for all French editions that followed as well as the later translations - as many as 11 between 1581 and 1616. Bodin edited an edition in 1587 which contained some additions; that edition is considered very flawed however and no subsequent editions were based upon it. <br><br>Jean Bodin 1529/30 - 1596 "one of the towering figures in the history of French thought" Scott was a lawyer economist natural philosopher historian and one of the major political theorists of the sixteenth century. His main work the "Six livres de la r�publique" is one of the most important works of modern political thought. Here Bodin gave the first systematic statement of sovereignty and coined the term "political science". With his theory of the State and statement of Sovereignty he fundamentally changed the history of political thought in the West. The "Six livres de la r�publique" is Bodin's most famous and frequently read work. Due to the seemingly "supernatural" contents of the "D�monomanie" scholars have had difficulties recognizing the Bodin of the "Six livres" in this work which within its domain was just as influential. There has been however increasing recognition of the political contents of the "D�monomanie" and a tendency towards reconciliation of the great works by this towering figure of early modern French thought. First of all the work is written with the same impressive thoroughness and style as Bodin's other works. Second although based upon a concrete sorcery case the "D�monomanie" is of the utmost importance to the understanding of Bodin's tripartite world picture and his attempts at maintaining a clear line of separation between the world of nature and the supernatural. His monumental conception of "Theatrum Naturae" is just as dominant as a thematical background in his "D�monomanie" as it is in his "Six livres" and there ought to be no doubt about the fact that the basic features of his system of thought are dominant in the present work which due to its concrete matter of investigation is all the more interesting. In fact the "D�monomanie" is now considered an invaluable source for the general thought of the great political thinker. <br><br>With its two-fold turn of focus on social problems and questions of natural-philosophical and theological character the "D�monomanie" in accordance with Bodin's scientific plan of life marks the transition from "human sciences" to "the science of natural and divine things". "Contrary to the judgment of the Enlightenment thinkers this midway-position does not reduce its value in the Bodin corpus; on the contrary: Precisely this work is suitable for clarifying and illustrating the unity of his works." Own translation from the German. Lange p. 162. <br><br>Concerning himself with witchcraft and demonology it is in this work that we find an emphasized statement of Bodin's thoughts on women on punishing and sentencing and on the general threats of state and society. <br><br>Having experienced severe criticism of his earlier works Bodin's critics became more serious and dangerous with regard to his "D�monimanie". In his letter of dedication December 20 1579 to Christophle de Thou the first president of the Parlement of Paris Bodin explained his motives for writing the work. "First he hoped to denounce the mania the spiritual errors and distraction as well as the "fury" that sorcerers possess as they "chase after the devil." He wrote this treaty with two purposes in mind: on the one hand "to use it as a warning to all who will see him the devil" and on the other hand "to alert readers that there is no crime that could be more atrocious or deserve more serious punishment." Bodin wished to speak out against those who "try by all means to rescue the sorcerers through printed books." He reminded all that "Satan has men in his grasp who write publish and speak claiming that nothing that is said about sorcerers is true." It was essential to provide the tools to magistrates and judges who were confronted by the accused sorcerers in order to face this formidable problem. The work was bold and perilous for its author. Many wondered if Bodin so curious about this topic such an expert so convinced of the devil's existence may not himself have been involved with witchcraft. These suspicions alarmed the authorities and on June 3 1587 the general prosecutor to the Parlement of Paris ordered the general lieutenant of the baillage of Laon to proceed with a search of Bodin's home on suspicion of witchcraft. This inspection brought no results due to the intervention of eight prominent citizens and two priests who registered their support of Bodin." SEP.<br><br>"The conclusions of the proceedings against a witch to which I was summoned on the last day of April 1578 gave me occasion to take up my pen in order to throw some light on the subject of witches which seems marvelously strange to everyone and unbelievable to many. And because there were some who found the case strange and almost unbelievable I decided to write this treatise which I have entitled "The Demon-Mania of Witches" on account of the madness which makes them chase after devils: to serve as a warning to all those who read it in order to make it clearly known that there are no crimes which are nearly as vile as this one or which deserve more serious penealties. Also partly to respond to those who in printed books try to save witches by every means so that it seems Satan has inspired them and drawn them to his line in order to publish these fine books." Bodin's Preface.<br><br>A feature which clearly distinguishes Bodin's theories on witchcraft from late medieval and early Renaissance demonology is his struggle against skepticism and the gender strategies that he deploys in the present work to thwart Skeptics constitute a central feature of his modern demonology - a demonology that came to be dominating for more than half a century. <br><br>The "D�monomanie" is a work designed to update a vast corpus concerned with the identification and punishment of witches. It provides us quite clearly with Bodin's thoughts on divinity punishment practice of law and not least on women - women in general and women in society. "Women generally serve as means to an end in Bodin's thought. The wife's natural inferiority to the husband provides an analogy for a nonreciprocal relation of command and obedience that he establishes between the sovereign and his subjects in "De la r�publique". In "De la d�monomanie" Bodin's portrayal of women as the possessors of unsavory secrets and his characterization of the confessions of witches as fragments of a grandly devilish design create the need for hermeneutical expertise - expertise that he claimed to have. In using women to "think with" the author of "De la d�monomanie" had much in common with his opponent the Lutharen physician Johann Weyer who protested against the witch trials in "De praestigiis daemonum" 1563." Wilkin p. 53.<br><br>An important part of Bodin's defence of the existence of witchcraft lies in the latter part of the present work namely the pages 218-252 which constitute the famous refutation of the opinions of Johann Weyer "Refutation des opinions de Jean Wier". In his "De praestigiis daemonum" from 1563 Weyer had argued that that which we call witchcraft are actually manifestations caused by mental illness of the women in question. It is interesting to see how much Bodin actually drew on Weyer while at the same time attacking him on both scholarly and legal grounds. As the thorough and classically bred scholar that he was he cited both classical Arab and Christian authorities on witchcraft against Weyer. He arrays the authority of all philosophers prophets theologians lawgivers jurists rulers etc. Ultimately Bodin here became the first to challenge Weyer's denial of the right to judge and punish the mentally ill making the work of foundational importance to the following development of legal theory specifically targeted on the punishment of insane men and women. <br><br>"As a major Renaissance scholar Bodin based his work on an extensive and varied group of sources. He depended heavily on the Old Testament classical and patristic authorities and a large number of medieval scholastic works. He was immersed in the late medieval legal and canon law traditions. He also cited a large number of recent and contemporary texts like the "Malleus meleficarum" as well as accounts told by friends and acquaintances. Interestingly while Bodin condemned the work of Johann Weyer he mined this book for anecdotes and accounts when they could be useful." Pearl.<br><br>The refutation of Weyer shows Bodin as a formidable controversialist. The reason why the "D�monomanie" is published two years after the trial of Jeanne Harvillier which is constitutes the concrete basis of the work is that Bodin needed time to carefully prepare the most effective resonse to Weyer's works and attach it to his own. Bodin seeks total demolishment of his opponent - and as time will tell he succeeds. Despite some modern disciples Weyer's position was largely traditional. His aim is not to deny the existence of Satan nor of satanic practitioners but rather to contend that those suspected of witchcraft are delusional and victims of mental illness. <br><br>"Weyer's characterization of women replicated the views of the "Malleus Maleficarum" 1487 or "witches hammer" one of the first and certainly the most influential manual for identifying and prosecuting witches. Weyer draws from the same sources as Kramer to argue that women cannot be held accountable for the crimes for which they stand accused and to which they often confess. Vying with the author of the "Malleus" weyer inscribes in etymology the correspondence between the soft female body and her persuasive mind. Weyer's portrayal of women diverges from that of Kramer only in his assessment of the witch's responsibility." Wilkin pp. 13-14.<br><br>"The essentially melancholic imagination of women he argues makes them incapable of the sense perception to which he assigned pride of place in the search for truth. The madness with which Weyer diagnosed witches thus masked the contradiction that vitiated his plea. Identifying the susceptibility to demonic illusion as a feminine trait was to compartmentalize it to limit implicitly the damage that the Devil could inflict elsewhere - for instance on the perception of learned physicians. Those who refuted "De praestigiis daemonum" rejected the hermeneutical advantage that Weyer claimed for himself. To the gender strategy by which he claimed his advantage however they did not object. Weyer's vociferous adversary Jean Bodin decried the physician's medical diagnosis of witches; nevertheless he called upon woman to embody his opposing hermeneutics. The phenomenon that Clark has felicitously termed "thinking with demons" was thus I argue inseparable from another thought process: "Thinking with women"." Wilkin pp. 9-10.<br><br>The "D�monomanie" also constitutes a seminal exercise in jurisprudence which came to set the standard for following decades. Bodin's aim was not only to make sure that witches were judged and punished he also aimed at fair trial rules according to principles of law developed over centuries in the secular and ecclesiastical courts. Also in this way the work differs profoundly from other works on demonology and witchcraft and shows us the author as a profound political and legal thinker whose aim was to alter society for the better. <br><br>Because this interesting work places itself amidst the divine and the earthly between the supernatural and the natural we find in it a wealth of themes that go beyond the actual witch trial with which Bodin begins his work. It is also for these reasons that the work provides us with an even more thorough knowledge of the foundational thoughts of the great legal and political thinker that is its author. <br><br>See: <br>Rebecca May Wilkin: Women Imagination and the Search for Truth in Early Modern France 2008.<br>Jean Bodin: On the Demon-Mania of Witches. Translated by Randy A. Scott with an Introduction by Jonathan L. Pearl 1995. <br>Ursula Lange: Untersuchungen zu Bodins Demonomanie 1970. hardcover‎

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