Magic Ritual and Witchcraft

The medieval philosopher Albert the Great (ca. 1200-1280) dealt with the topics of revelatory dreaming and prophecy in a number of his works. The aim of this paper is to show how Albert worked to develop a "grand unified theory" of prophecy, drawing together naturalized ideas of foreseeing...

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The "Spiritualized Devil": Practical Demonology and Protestant Doctrines in Scottish Witchcraft Confessions

Jones, Ciaran

2022 Magic, Ritual, and Witchcraft

doi:10.1353/mrw.2022.0008

Histories of the Devil in the Scottish witch trials have often focused on the confessions of accused witches and have tended to center on notions of practical demonology, that is beliefs about the Devil and witches that surfaced during the interrogation process. But the Devil of practical...

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Witch in the Scales: Bible Weighing in England and America

Young, Simon

2022 Magic, Ritual, and Witchcraft

doi:10.1353/mrw.2022.0009

This article looks at a score of English and American records from the early 1700s to the early 1800s involving Bible weighing. This was an ordeal by which a suspected witch was weighed against a church Bible: if the suspect proved heavier than the Bible he or she was judged to be innocent; if...

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