Tag Archives: Jean Bodin

witch hunting: clerical pastime

European witch hunting. How can such lunacy have possessed humanity for two centuries? How could Europe’s educated laity, those lawyers, scholars and philosophers in the age of Erasmus cave in to such monkish phantasmagoria? The confessions of the so-called witches … Continue reading

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witch hunting: clerical pastime

European witch hunting. How can such lunacy have possessed humanity for two centuries? How could Europe’s educated laity, those lawyers, scholars and philosophers in the age of Erasmus cave in to such monkish phantasmagoria? The confessions of the so-called witches … Continue reading

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witches brew: the intellectuals surrender

Witch hunting in Europe in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.How can such lunacy have possessed humanity for two centuries? It is quite clear that witchcraft, as a systematic cult, was not discovered; it was invented by the inquisitors. The Church … Continue reading

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