The History of Magic, Volume 2H. G. Bohn, 1854 |
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... Amulets and Charms of the Middle Ages 95 Magic of Scandinavia 97 The Magic of the Laplanders 99 Pigmies , etc. 107 Magic of the Middle Ages The Witch - hammer 115 127 Witch - prosecutions Good and Evil Spirits The Early Christian.
... Amulets and Charms of the Middle Ages 95 Magic of Scandinavia 97 The Magic of the Laplanders 99 Pigmies , etc. 107 Magic of the Middle Ages The Witch - hammer 115 127 Witch - prosecutions Good and Evil Spirits The Early Christian.
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Joseph Ennemoser. Witch - prosecutions Good and Evil Spirits The Early Christian Belief in Demons . Struggle of Christianity and Heathenism Witch Metamorphoses The Devil of the Fifteenth Century Witch Persecution of the Fifteenth Century ...
Joseph Ennemoser. Witch - prosecutions Good and Evil Spirits The Early Christian Belief in Demons . Struggle of Christianity and Heathenism Witch Metamorphoses The Devil of the Fifteenth Century Witch Persecution of the Fifteenth Century ...
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... evil arose , -that not only did there cease to be any progress through ex- perimental research , but more and more mistakes were con- tinually arising . For , as Diodorus of Sicily states , the laws of healing diseases were strictly ...
... evil arose , -that not only did there cease to be any progress through ex- perimental research , but more and more mistakes were con- tinually arising . For , as Diodorus of Sicily states , the laws of healing diseases were strictly ...
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... evil - averting power which was ascribed to them , is an evi- dence that their healing quality was already known . Thepriest of Jupiter also wore , according to Creech's interpretation of that passage in Lucretius , similar iron wings ...
... evil - averting power which was ascribed to them , is an evi- dence that their healing quality was already known . Thepriest of Jupiter also wore , according to Creech's interpretation of that passage in Lucretius , similar iron wings ...
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... evil , aλεşikaкoç . As the friend of harmony in nature , ἀλεξίκακος . he built the walls of Troy , and produced , surrounded by the Muses , the nine months , the original or moon - year con- sisting of nine or ten months , —the harmony ...
... evil , aλεşikaкoç . As the friend of harmony in nature , ἀλεξίκακος . he built the walls of Troy , and produced , surrounded by the Muses , the nine months , the original or moon - year con- sisting of nine or ten months , —the harmony ...
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Page 130 - Now there was a day when the sons of GOD came to present themselves before the LORD, and Satan came also among them. And the LORD said unto Satan, Whence comest thou ? Then Satan answered the LORD, and said, From going to and fro in the earth, and from walking up and down in it.
Page 134 - BEHOLD, I will send my messenger, and he shall prepare the way before me : and the Lord, whom ye seek, shall suddenly come to his temple; even the messenger of the covenant, whom ye delight in; behold, he shall come, saith the Lord of hosts.
Page 131 - In thoughts from the visions of the night, when deep sleep falleth on men, Fear came upon me, and trembling, which made all my bones to shake. Then a spirit passed before my face ; the hair of my flesh stood up...
Page 131 - Then Satan answered the LORD, and said, Doth Job fear God for nought ? Hast not thou made an hedge about him, and about his house, and about all that he hath on every side ? thou hast blessed the work of his hands, and his substance is increased in the land.
Page 131 - For the arrows of the Almighty are within me, the poison whereof drinketh up my spirit : the terrors of God do set themselves in array against me.
Page 138 - Stand now with thine enchantments, and with the multitude of thy sorceries, wherein thou hast laboured from thy youth; if so be thou shalt be able to profit, if so be thou mayest prevail.
Page 360 - ... in the morning thou shalt say, Would God it were even! and at even thou shalt say, Would God it were morning ! for the fear of thine heart wherewith thou shalt fear, and for the sight of thine eyes which thou shalt see.
Page 138 - And when they shall say unto you, Seek unto them that have familiar spirits, and unto wizards that peep, and that mutter: should not a people seek unto their God? "For the living to the dead? To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them.
Page 131 - And the Lord said unto Satan, Behold, all that he hath is in thy power; only ' upon himself put not forth thine hand.
Page 357 - ... body ; notwithstanding the lady would needs have her let blood, which was done accordingly. And when the young woman had patiently let them do what they would with her, she desired that the chaplain might be called to read prayers ; and when prayers were ended, she took her guitar and psalm-book, and...