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Tag Archives: H.C. Lea History of the Inquisition
BEDEVILED OF COMMON SENSE
Torture and mythology, the pincers and the book, these were the essential machinery of the European witch craze. Out of hallucination and suggestion was created a terrible empire of darkness which then acquired a life and momentum of its own, … Continue reading
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Tagged Clouddragon, Colbert, Edward Gibbon, Francesco Maria Guazzo, H.C. Lea, H.C. Lea History of the Inquisition, Henry More, John Selden, Matthew Hopkins, Nicolas Remy, Salem Witch burning, Sir Francis Bacon, Spanish Inquisition, Witch burning, Witch Persecution, witch torture
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BEWITCHED OF REASON
Vampires of the Vanities, and bonfires of insanity. It was not the medieval world that produced the witchcraft delusion. Surprisingly, it was the age of the Renaissance and the Enlightenment. The dark ages were perhaps not all that dark after … Continue reading
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Tagged Edward Gibbon, Girolamo Cardono, H.C. Lea, H.C. Lea History of the Inquisition, Ingmar Bergman, Saint Boniface, Saint Thomas Aquinas, The Seventh Seal, The Witches of Eastwick, witchcraft, witches
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