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  2. Witchcraft in Italy - Wikipedia

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    The Catholic Church often accused many types of women of performing magic in order to “bind” the passions of their clients, neighbors, friends, or even family. Binding Passions: Tales of Magic, Marriage, and Power at the End of the Renaissance by Guido Ruggiero offers many examples of “prostitution, concubinage, love magic, renegade clerics, a social hierarchy that largely overlooked the ...

  3. Christian views on magic - Wikipedia

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    Magic in literature, while condemned by some Christians, is often viewed by Christians as non-evil. The key distinction would be between real-life magic and pretend magic. This view holds that in real life, the practice of supernatural abilities (i.e. magic) must have a supernatural power source or origin, which would be either holy or evil.

  4. Malleus Maleficarum - Wikipedia

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    The Malleus Maleficarum, [a] usually translated as the Hammer of Witches, [3] [b] is the best known treatise about witchcraft. [6] [7] It was written by the German Catholic clergyman Heinrich Kramer (under his Latinized name Henricus Institor) and first published in the German city of Speyer in 1486.

  5. Stregheria - Wikipedia

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    Stregheria (Italian pronunciation: [streɡeˈriːa]) is a neo-pagan tradition similar to Wicca, with Italian and Italian American origins. [1] While most practitioners consider Stregheria to be a distinct tradition from Wicca, some academics consider it to be a form of Wicca or an offshoot.

  6. Are witches real? Everything to know on spells, magic and more

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    Here's everything to know on witchcraft, spells, magic, covens, broomsticks and more. Mary (KATHY NAJIMY), Winifred (BETTE MIDLER) und Sarah (SARAH JESSICA PARKER) beim brauen eines Zaubertrankes ...

  7. European witchcraft - Wikipedia

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    After Christianization, the medieval Catholic Church began to see witchcraft (maleficium) as a blend of black magic and apostasy involving a pact with the Devil. During the early modern period, witch hunts became widespread in Europe, partly fueled by religious tensions, societal anxieties, and economic upheaval.

  8. Aradia, or the Gospel of the Witches - Wikipedia

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    Its fifteen chapters portray the origins, beliefs, rituals, and spells of an Italian pagan witchcraft tradition. The central figure of that religion is the goddess Aradia, who came to Earth to teach the practice of witchcraft to peasants in order for them to oppose their feudal oppressors and the Roman Catholic Church.

  9. Book of Saint Cyprian - Wikipedia

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    The Sorcerer's Treasure contains very little evocation, [5] instead drawing upon oral traditions relating to divination, healing spells, prayers [6] (including some to one's guardian angel), exorcisms, love magic, the locations of buried treasures throughout Galicia, and sometimes even treatises on animal magnetism-- all set within a framework ...