WITCHCRAFT - DEMONS Witches swearing allegiance to the Devil, whilst standing in a circle marked out in the earth. Hand-coloured print from Francesco Maria Guazzo, Compendium Maleficarum, 1608. This was the most learned and precise of mediaeval witchcraft manuals, and in some respects (because it paid homage to the superstitions of the worst kind) one of the most horrible.

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