The history of the devil and the idea of evil : from the earliest times to the present day (1900)
Carus, Paul, 1852-1919 · Chicago : Open Court Pub. Co. · leaf 401
belief 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 ^De oraciilis EtJinicorum^Amsterdam, 1685), and set the people to thinking onwitch-prosecution (see his work… … Balthasar Bekker.* THE ABOLITION OF WITCH-PROSECUTION. 381 the way for the two great reformers Bekker and Thoma-sius, who openly and squarely denounced witchcraft as asuperstition and at last succeeded in abolishing the ofhcialprosecutions of witches by the authorities of State andChurch. Balthasar…
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