Brutkey

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re: lewd, kink

Chapter Four is about the method by which they subordinate themselves to incubus demons. In this chapter, there is also a treatment of how their numbers are increased as a result of them and whether it is always with an emission of seed that the incubus accosts the sorceress, and whether at one time rather than another, and like- wise about the location, and whether they visibly carry out these filthy acts, with greater or lesser sexual enjoyment, and whether incubi accost only women begotten of the filthy acts of sorceresses.
neomouse_woozy

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lewd, kink

some of this is activating my corruption fetish

Chapter One is about the various methods by which demons entice innocent and respectable girls through sorceresses in order to increase this breach of the Faith.
like please tell me more neomouse_devil

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Part One is about the three elements that co-operate to bring about sorcery, namely, the demon, the sorcerer and the permission of God.
sounds like an erotica title to me for some reason, "the demon, the sorcerer and the permission of God."

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Will never stop laughing about the time of history where Germany called itself the Roman Empire

Government by larping

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Guess archbishiporic is another word for an archdiocese

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the presence of my notary public and of the witnesses written below
This was written in 1480s

how long have notary publics been a thing?

Yknow this has Rome written all over it.

I'm blaming Rome for notary publics

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finally got past the translators intro to the proper text. It opens with a short "purpose for writing" and then a papal bull from the pope at the time Pope Innocent V (I think it was V)

edit nope Innocent VIII

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Papal bull

More like papal bullshit amirite

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You ever wonder how much old stuff we read was actually satire?

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it is easy to adopt an attitude of smug self-satisfaction when considering the widespread adherence to views that now seem (for most people) to be incompatible with a rational understanding of the world, it is preferable to understand the work in its own context. ... And as for being caught up in a frenzy of seemingly irrational behavior on the basis of some delusional belief in a demonic conspiracy, one does not have to go back to the anti-semitic madness of Nazi Germany to find a parallel phenomenon in the modern world. Less than thirty years ago in the United States, an unwarranted belief that satanic cults were abusing children, combined with an anxiety that children were being mistreated in daycare centers, led to egregious miscarriages of justice in highly publicized trials involving completely unbelievable accusations and testimony. In fact, one famous victim of such a trial (Gerald Amirault) was released only in 2004 after spending eighteen years in prison following his conviction for accusations that had not the least merit. So perhaps what can be said for the modern world is that it takes only a few years to dispel the sort of frenzy that went on for a century and a half in early modern Europe.

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The tract Ad Rufinum (“To Rufinus”) is a work of humor that has been removed from its context and taken seriously.