Brutkey

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Let it also be noted that among other actions they [witches] must follow four practices that serve to increase that breach of the Faith: they renounce the Catholic Faith in whole or part with a sacrilegious speech, solemnly devote themselves in body and soul, offer babies not yet reborn [baptised] to the Evil One, and persistently engage in the Devil’s filthy deeds through carnal acts with incubus and succubus demons.

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Hence, sorcerers through no natural power and merely with the assistance of demons on the one hand, and demons by themselves with the help of some object like thorns, bones, strands of hair, pieces of wood or the like on the other, bring about the effects of sorcery when they insert or deposit some device, as will be explained in the following discussion.
Ok so demons can also do stuff through an object. But I suspect at any rate they'd need a witch to make sure the object is planted in the right place.

Aster
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reading the book that was an influence in the witch hunts again, just so yall are ready for that lol

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apparently non-harmful magic (he uses magic for acquiring "health or friendship" as an example) is not witchcraft but what he calls "observance of vanities". and is still heresy but he says he ain't gonna talk abt it because he is concerned with witches.

I guess this non-harmful magic too can be done without the explicit use of demons. (but he says it uses them implicitly)

Aster
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Hence, sorcerers through no natural power and merely with the assistance of demons on the one hand, and demons by themselves with the help of some object like thorns, bones, strands of hair, pieces of wood or the like on the other, bring about the effects of sorcery when they insert or deposit some device, as will be explained in the following discussion.
Ok so demons can also do stuff through an object. But I suspect at any rate they'd need a witch to make sure the object is planted in the right place.

Aster
@asterism@ni.hil.ist

apparently non-harmful magic (he uses magic for acquiring "health or friendship" as an example) is not witchcraft but what he calls "observance of vanities". and is still heresy but he says he ain't gonna talk abt it because he is concerned with witches.

I guess this non-harmful magic too can be done without the explicit use of demons. (but he says it uses them implicitly)

Aster
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In this way, then, when a soul is strongly impelled in the direction of evil, as happens to old women in particular, the sight of her is rendered poisonous and harmful in this manner
This is very gender

Aster
@asterism@ni.hil.ist

apparently witches have to have demons to do things with one exception. Old women are apparently able to give the evil eye to people through their own power.

(also apparently a pure mirror "gains impurity" when it sees a menstruating woman. which ok dude (I guess he gets that one from Aristotle))

Aster
@asterism@ni.hil.ist

his argument for why demons were able to do stuff without a witch is because witches weren't invented yet. But now that they exist I guess they have to use them or something.

Aster
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Satan is playing peek-a-boo again

Aster
@asterism@ni.hil.ist

this baby is laughing, must be satan.

Aster
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According to Augustine (City of God [16.3, 10; 21.14]), he [Zoroaster] is the only man to have laughed when he was born, which was nothing but the work of the Devil.