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Contents
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Ch. | XIV | Whether Witches have Power to Make Beasts Talk | 53 |
Ch. | XV | Whether the Devil can Make Men Insensible to Torture | 55 |
Ch. | XVI | Whether by Witchcraft and Devil’s Work the Sexes can be Interchanged | 57 |
Ch. | XVII | Whether the Spirits of the Dead can Appear to Men | 59 |
Ch. | XVIII | Of Apparitions of Demons, or Spectres | 73 |
Ch. | XIX | That Cacodemons Exercise their Magic Powers of their Own Will | 80 |
The Second Book
Dealing with the various kinds of witchcraft,
and certain other matters which
should be known
Ch. | I | Of Soporific Spells | 83 |
Ch. | II | Witches use Human Corpses for the Murder of Men | 88 |
Ch. | III | Of Witches’ Poisons | 90 |
Ch. | IV | Of Tying the Points | 91 |
Ch. | V | Of Incendiary Witchcraft | 95 |
Ch. | VI | The Devil Wishes to Perpetuate the Race of Witches | 96 |
Ch. | VII | Of the Various Ways by which Witches Vent their Spite upon the Human Race | 98 |
Ch. | VIII | Of the Different Diseases Brought by Demons | 105 |
Ch. | IX | Why God Permits the Devil so to Busy Himself with Witchcraft | 111 |
Ch. | X | The Laws Observed by Witches in Causing and in Curing Sickness | 121 |
Ch. | XI | Witches Use something of Religion in Healing Sickness | 123 |
Ch. | XII | Threatening or Beating Witches is the Best Method of Removing the Spells cast by Them | 124 |
Ch. | XIII | After the Many Blasphemies Committed by Witches, the Demon at last Tries to Induce them to Kill Themselves with Their Own Hands | 129 |
Ch. | XIV | Upon Those who have once Fallen into his Power the Devil keeps a Tenacious Grip, even when They stand Tortured before Their Judges, or in Holy Places, or wherever They may Be | 132 |
Ch. | XV | A Summary in a Few Words of All the Crimes of Witches | 135 |