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Daemonologie

Author : King James

Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform

Page : 42 pages

File Size : 35,18 MB

Release : 2018-05-26

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ISBN : 9781720360247

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Daemonologie-in full Daemonologie, In Forme of a Dialogue, Divided into three Books: By the High and Mighty Prince, James &c.-was written and published in 1597 by King James VI of Scotland (later also James I of England) as a philosophical dissertation on contemporary necromancy and the historical relationships between the various methods of divination used from ancient black magic. This included a study on demonology and the methods demons used to bother troubled men while touching on topics such as werewolves and vampires. It was a political yet theological statement to educate a misinformed populace on the history, practices and implications of sorcery and the reasons for persecuting a witch in a Christian society under the rule of canonical law. This book is believed to be one of the main sources used by William Shakespeare in the production of Macbeth. Shakespeare attributed many quotes and rituals found within the book directly to the Weird Sisters, yet also attributed the Scottish themes and settings referenced from the trials in which King James was involved.



Witchcraft in Early Modern Scotland

Author : Lawrence Normand

Publisher : Liverpool University Press

Page : 468 pages

File Size : 36,88 MB

Release : 2022-03-23

Category : History

ISBN : 1802079300

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This volume provides a valuable introduction to the key concepts of witchcraft and demonology through a detailed study of one of the best known and most notorious episodes of Scottish history, the North Berwick witch hunt, in which King James was involved as alleged victim, interrogator, judge and demonologist. It provides hitherto unpublished and inaccessible material from the legal documentation of the trials in a way that makes the material fully comprehensible, as well as full texts of the pamphlet News from Scotland and James' Demonology, all in a readable, modernised, scholarly form. Full introductory sections and supporting notes provide information about the contexts needed to understand the texts: court politics, social history and culture, religious changes, law and the workings of the court, and the history of witchcraft prosecutions in Scotland before 1590. The book also brings to bear on this material current scholarship on the history of European witchcraft.



Witchcraft in Colonial Virginia

Author : Carson O. Hudson Jr.

Publisher : Arcadia Publishing

Page : 144 pages

File Size : 12,57 MB

Release : 2019

Category : History

ISBN : 146714424X

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"While the witchcraft mania that swept through Salem, Massachusetts, in 1692 was significant, fascination with it has tended to overshadow the historical records of other persecutions throughout early America. Colonial Virginians shared a common belief in the supernatural with their northern neighbors. The 1626 case of Joan Wright, the first woman to be accused of witchcraft in British North America, began Virginia's own witch craze. Utilizing surviving records, local historian Carson Hudson narrates these fascinating stories." --Back cover.



Abomination: Devil Worship and Deception in the West Memphis Three Murders

Author : William Ramsey

Publisher : William Ramsey

Page : 476 pages

File Size : 34,91 MB

Release : 2013-12-06

Category : True Crime

ISBN : 1479216631

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Abomination: Devil Worship and Deception in the West Memphis Three Murders provides a detailed, time-lined analysis of the murder that shocked the nation: the heinous killing of three eight year old boys in West Memphis, Arkansas on May 5th, 1993. A wall of deception has led the American public to erroneously believe that the three men were falsely accused and convicted for the crime. Unfortunately, this is not true. William Ramsey, author of Prophet of Evil: Aleister Crowley, 9/11 and the New World Order, provides shocking insights into the lives of the convicted murderers and their involvement with witchcraft. Relying on actual court and police records, William Ramsey shows that the evidence abundantly points to the guilt of the West Memphis Three.



The Imperial Magazine;

Author : Samuel Drew

Publisher :

Page : 616 pages

File Size : 10,42 MB

Release : 1829

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Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions

Author : Charles Mackay

Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand

Page : 366 pages

File Size : 18,28 MB

Release : 2023-08-26

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 3387003471

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Reproduction of the original. The publishing house Megali specialises in reproducing historical works in large print to make reading easier for people with impaired vision.



James I

Author : John Matusiak

Publisher : The History Press

Page : 365 pages

File Size : 48,35 MB

Release : 2015-11-05

Category : History

ISBN : 0750966718

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Few kings have been more savagely caricatured or grossly misunderstood than England’s first Stuart. Yet, as this new biography demonstrates, the modern tendency to downplay his defects and minimise the long-term consequences of his reign has gone too far. In spite of genuine idealism and flashes of considerable resourcefulness, James I remains a perplexing figure – a uniquely curious ruler, shot through with glaring inconsistencies. His vices and foibles not only undermined his high hopes for healing and renewal after Elizabeth I’s troubled last years, but also entrenched political and religious tensions that eventually consumed his successor. A flawed, if well-meaning, foreigner in a rapidly changing and divided kingdom, his passionate commitment to time-honoured principles of government would, ironically, prove his undoing, as England edged unconsciously towards a crossroads and the shadow of the Thirty Years War descended upon Europe.



Teaching Reformation

Author : Luka Ilic

Publisher : Augsburg Fortress Publishers

Page : 292 pages

File Size : 34,20 MB

Release : 2021-08-10

Category : Religion

ISBN : 1506467660

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Presented on the occasion of his seventieth birthday, this collection of essays honors the life and work of Dr. Timothy J. Wengert, a pastor and noted Reformation historian who brings to scholarship a deep sense of its practical dimensions in the life of the church. In these essays, Wengert's students, colleagues, and peers follow in their honoree's footsteps by highlighting the implications of a rich tapestry of Reformation topics.





Higher Magic

Author : Oscar Schutte Teale

Publisher :

Page : 512 pages

File Size : 27,39 MB

Release : 1920

Category : History

ISBN :

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