WITCHCRAFT - DEMONS The Devil makes his personal marks on the forehead of the witch, both to erse the chrism of baptism, and to signal its own ownership over the witch. 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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