Old Wives Tale HWMB 04 004

2024-09-21T00:00:00Z

Old Wives Tale "They sacrifice to demons, adore them, seek out and accept responses from them, do homage to them, and make them a written agreement or by another kind of pact through which, by a single word, touch or sign, they may perform whatever evil deeds or sorcery they wish and be transported to or away from wherever they wish. They cure diseases, provoke bad weather, and make pacts concerning other evil deeds. Or, so that they may achieve these purposes, the reckless creatures make images or have images made in order to constrain the demons, or by invoking them perpetrate more sorcery" (p. 154). Pope Eugenius IV. "A Letter to All Inquisitors of Heretical Depravity." 1437, qtd in Witchcraft in Europe, 400-1700: A Documentary History . 2nd ed, Alan Charles Kors and Edward Peters (eds.), University of Pennsylvania Press, 2000. https://archive.org/details/witchcraftineuro0000unse_p5i0/page/n5/mode/2up