The history of the devil and the idea of evil; from the earliest times to the present day (1899)
Carus, Paul, 1852-1919 · Chicago : Open Court Pub. Co.; London, K. Paul, Trench, Trubner · leaf 399
ief in the Devil began to grow bolder andever bolder. A Dutch physician, Anton van Dale, nolonger attributes the pagan oracles to the influence of theDevil, but to priestly fraud {^Dc oraciilis Ethnicorinn^Amsterdam, 1685), and set the people to thinking onwitch-prosecution (see his work… … Balthasar Bekker.* THE ABOLITION OF WITCH-PROSECUTIOX. 381 the way for tlie two j^reat reformers Bekker and Tlioma-sius, who openly and squarely denounced witchcraft as asuperstition and at last succeeded in abolishing the officialprosecutions of witches by the authorities of State andChurch.…
Devil · Demonology · Good and evil
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