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  • The blindinge of the wicked, and all the wicked deedes that follow therupon, are called the workes of Sathan, of which yet the caufe is not to be fought elfewhere, than in the wUl of man, out of which arifeth the roote of euell, wherin refteth the fun - dation of the kingdome of Sathan, which is Sinnc.

    The institution of christian religion 1578

  • Reginald Scot was attacked by James I in Daemonologie (1597), with the future king slating the one called Scot an Englishman and maintaining that such assaultes of Sathan are most certainly practised & that the instruments thereof, merits most severly to be punished.36 In Basilikon Doron (1599) he wrote: witchcraft takes its place with wilful murder, incest, sodomy, poisoning and false coining as horrible crimes that yee are bound in conscience neuer to forgiue.37

    Bedlam Catharine Arnold 2008

  • Reginald Scot was attacked by James I in Daemonologie (1597), with the future king slating the one called Scot an Englishman and maintaining that such assaultes of Sathan are most certainly practised & that the instruments thereof, merits most severly to be punished.36 In Basilikon Doron (1599) he wrote: witchcraft takes its place with wilful murder, incest, sodomy, poisoning and false coining as horrible crimes that yee are bound in conscience neuer to forgiue.37

    Bedlam Catharine Arnold 2008

  • Reginald Scot was attacked by James I in Daemonologie (1597), with the future king slating the one called Scot an Englishman and maintaining that such assaultes of Sathan are most certainly practised & that the instruments thereof, merits most severly to be punished.36 In Basilikon Doron (1599) he wrote: witchcraft takes its place with wilful murder, incest, sodomy, poisoning and false coining as horrible crimes that yee are bound in conscience neuer to forgiue.37

    Bedlam Catharine Arnold 2008

  • It was here that Emma Calvé met one of her most famed lovers, the novelist Jules Bois, author ofThe Wedding of Sathan Satan Les noces de Sathan.

    The Sion Revelation Lynn Picknett 2006

  • It was here that Emma Calvé met one of her most famed lovers, the novelist Jules Bois, author ofThe Wedding of Sathan Satan Les noces de Sathan.

    The Sion Revelation Lynn Picknett 2006

  • It was here that Emma Calvé met one of her most famed lovers, the novelist Jules Bois, author ofThe Wedding of Sathan Satan Les noces de Sathan.

    The Sion Revelation Lynn Picknett 2006

  • “What little need, when incarnate fiends are combined against me on earth, and Sathan himself — But it matters not,” added he, checking himself.

    Old Mortality 2004

  • And then the Priest should enquire, before the childe be dieped in the Fonte, whether it haue renounced Sathan and all his pompe and pride.

    The Fardle of Facions, conteining the aunciente maners, customes and lawes, of the peoples enhabiting the two partes of the earth, called Affricke and Asie 2004

  • Stubbes, regretfully concluding that his ideal punishment was unacceptable -- that convicted prostitutes should be "made to drinke a full draught of Moyses cuppe, that is, tast [e] of present death" -- went on to suggest the next best thing: branding, on the cheek or forehead, "to the end [that] honest and chast Christians might be discerned from the adulterous Children of Sathan."

    Wrong Side of the River: London's disreputable South Bank in the sixteenth and seventeenth century. Jessica A. Browner Jessica A. Browner 1994

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