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  2. European witchcraft - Wikipedia

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    This pact and the ceremony that accompanied it became widely known as the witches' sabbath. The idea of a pact became important—one could be possessed by the Devil and not responsible for one's actions; but to be a witch, one had to sign a pact with the Devil, often to worship him, which was heresy and meant damnation. The idea of an explicit ...

  3. Deal with the Devil - Wikipedia

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    An oral pact may be made by means of invocations, conjurations, or rituals to attract the demon; once the conjure thinks the demon is present, they ask for the wanted favour and offer their soul in exchange, and no evidence is left of the pact. But according to some witch trials, an oral pact left evidence in the form of the Witches' mark, an ...

  4. Witchcraft - Wikipedia

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    Witchcraft is the use of alleged supernatural powers of magic. ... and were sometimes believed to have made a pact with the Devil. [154] Usually, accusations of ...

  5. Urbain Grandier - Wikipedia

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    Pact in Backwards Latin One of the documents introduced as evidence during Grandier's second trial is a diabolical pact written in Latin and apparently signed by Grandier. Another, which looks illegible, is written backwards, in Latin with scribal abbreviation , and has since been published and translated in a number of books on witchcraft.

  6. Compendium Maleficarum - Wikipedia

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    Compendium Maleficarum is a witch-hunter's manual written in Latin by Francesco Maria Guazzo, and published in Milan (present-day Italy) in 1608. [1]It discusses witches' pacts with the devil, and detailed descriptions of witches’ powers and poisons.

  7. Geneva witch trials - Wikipedia

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    In 1571, frustration over the persistent epidemic caused a witchcraft persecution caused by rumours that the uncommonly long plague had been caused by witches. 29 people were executed, and an additional number of people were banished, judged guilty accused of having made a pact with the Devil, participated in a witches' sabbath and having ...

  8. Loudun possessions - Wikipedia

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    In August 1634, the case was heard before the local magistrates. It was alleged that Grandier had made a pact with the devil, [9] and had invited someone to a witches' sabbat. Grandier was found guilty of sorcery and placing evil spells to cause the possession of the Ursuline nuns; he was condemned to be burned at the stake.

  9. Illuminates of Thanateros - Wikipedia

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    The formal name of the group is The Magical Pact of the Illuminates of Thanateros. [5] The name "Thanateros" is a combination of the names "Thanatos" and "Eros", the Greek gods of death and sex, respectively. The idea is that sex and death represent the positive and negative methods of attaining "magical consciousness".