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Demon Lovers (Paperback, New edition)
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On September 20, 1587, Walpurga Hausmannin of Dillingen in southern
Germany was burned at the stake as a witch. Although she had
confessed to committing a long list of "maleficia" (deeds of
harmful magic), including killing forty--one infants and two
mothers in labor, her evil career allegedly began with just one
heinous act--sex with a demon. Fornication with demons was a major
theme of her trial record, which detailed an almost continuous orgy
of sexual excess with her diabolical paramour Federlin "in many
divers places, . . . even in the street by night."
As Walter Stephens demonstrates in "Demon Lovers," it was not
Hausmannin or other so-called witches who were obsessive about sex
with demons--instead, a number of devout Christians, including
trained theologians, displayed an uncanny preoccupation with the
topic during the centuries of the "witch craze." Why? To find out,
Stephens conducts a detailed investigation of the first and most
influential treatises on witchcraft (written between 1430 and
1530), including the infamous "Malleus Maleficarum" ("Hammer of
Witches").
Far from being credulous fools or mindless misogynists, early
writers on witchcraft emerge in Stephens's account as rational but
reluctant skeptics, trying desperately to resolve contradictions in
Christian thought on God, spirits, and sacraments that had
bedeviled theologians for centuries. Proof of the physical
existence of demons--for instance, through evidence of their
intercourse with mortal witches--would provide strong evidence for
the reality of the supernatural, the truth of the Bible, and the
existence of God. Early modern witchcraft theory reflected a crisis
of belief--a crisis that continues tobe expressed today in popular
debates over angels, Satanic ritual child abuse, and alien
abduction.
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