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Editor’s Preface
Although, as Henry Boguet himself points out in the Preface to his Discours des Sorciers, he has freely used the ample assistance of such authorities in the matter of witchcraft as Sprenger and Kramer; the celebrated Jean Bodin; Nicolas Remy of the supreme judicial court of Nancy; Peter Binsfeld, Bishop Suffragan of Trèves; Paul Grilland; Bartolomeo de Spina; Thyraeus; Leonard Vair; his many citations from the Malleus Maleficarum, the Démonomanie, the Dæmonolatreia, Raemond’s L’Antéchrist, and other encyclopædic manuals, must in no wise be taken as impairing either the interest or the originality of his own most remarkable and memorable work. Indeed it may be said that throughout the whole vast library of demonology, after the great Malleus Maleficarum, there is
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