WITCHCRAFT - DEMONS The witches offering parts of their clothing to the Devil, that he might rend them, as token of his power over their bodies. 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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