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A Treatise of Witchcraft

by Alexander Roberts

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A King’s Lynn clergyman sets out, proposition by proposition, to prove from Scripture and authority that witches exist and make compacts with the devil, then narrates the case of Mary Smith, a local woman executed for witchcraft in 1616. The original spelling of the Jacobean text is preserved.

A document of belief rather than a guide to it, showing how educated men justified the witch trials. Download the free EPUB.

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