1773 On WITCHES Witchcraft MAGIC Exorcism
Devils Demonology Paradoxa Diabolica
+full transcript of exorcism of Maria
Anna Ulrichin
An 18th-century
discourse on pastoral theology including sermons and content on witches and
witchcraft, demons and demonology, exorcisms, spirits, devils, and Satan. This
is a guide for the rural curates of the Confratres Petrinos who would be
assisting the parishioners in rural communities with their religious
obligations. It establishes the rules of the confraternity and then gives
guidance to the curate on his duties and the problems he may find.
A
large portion of the text is devoted to diabolic appearances, nocturnal
travels, spirits, exorcisms, magic etc. The first appendix devoted to
"Paradoxa Diabolica" pages 288-367 and scattered throughout the text
are numerous questions on occult matters. There is a full transcript of the
exorcism of Maria Anna Elizabetha Ulrichin in 1724-6.
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Main author: German church
Title: Aesopus epulans,
sive discursus mensales inter confratres petrinos curatos innocenter sine omni
offensa tertii promiscue pro- et contra habiti, ventilati et collecti per
quendam J. sessionis assessorem, veteranum, et ruralem.
Published: Francofurti & Lipsiae : Krauss, 1773.
Language: Latin
Notes & content:
Anna Maria Schwegelin was born in poverty in the
area near Kempten im Allgäu and served as a maid. In 1751, a Protestant was
employed as a coachman, and converted to the Catholic faith. Schwegelin tried
to prevent this. It is also said that she abandoned her Catholic faith in order
to marry a Protestant, but that the marriage plans were broken off. In 1769,
she injured her leg, and in 1770, she was put in the poor house. Suspicions of
her (and the coachman's) involvement in Satanism led to an arrest; she
reportedly freely confessed having made a pact with the Devil. She was judged guilty
and sentenced to be executed on April 11, 1775. By July, 1775, however, the
case seems to have been forgotten, and Schwegelin remained in jail, where she
died of natural causes in 1781.
Many of the case citations are of the eighteenth
century and represent the thinking of a traditionalist working in the period of
the Great German Witch-Debate. It even contains a group of medical treatments
that the curate may use. At the end are several poems devoted to the
Confraternity. A curious and interesting view of the very end of the
witch-craze.
The witch-hunt of the 16th and 17th centuries was
an organized effort by authorities in many countries to destroy a supposed
conspiracy of witches thought to pose a deadly threat to Christendom. According
to these authorities, witches were numerous, and in conscious alliance with
Satan, forming a sort of Satanic counter-religion. Witch-hunts in this sense
must be separated from the belief in witches, the evil eye, and other such
phenomena, which are common features of folk belief worldwide.
The belief that witches are not just individual
villains but conspirators organized in a powerful but well-hidden cult is a
distinguishing feature of the early modern witch-hunt.
This idea of an organized witch-cult originates in
the second half of the 15th century, notoriously expounded in the 1486 ‘Malleus Maleficarum.’
In the following two centuries, witch trials
usually included the charge of membership in a demonic conspiracy, gathering in
Sabbaths, and similar. It was only with the beginning Age of Enlightenment in
the early 18th century, that the idea of an organized witch-cult was abandoned.
It is very interesting that Germany was at the
absolute center of the “witch craze” of the sixteenth and seventeenth
centuries. The most credible estimates for the number of executions for
witchcraft between 1450-1750 are in the range of 40,000 to 60,000 people across
Europe, with southern and central regions of Germany accounting for between
17,000 and 26,000 executions, as compared to between 5000-6000 executions for
all of France, around 1000 executions for England and Wales, and a mere 50
estimated executions in Spain, where there was little religious diversity to
fuel the fires.
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Binding: tight and secure binding
Pages: complete with all 420
pages; plus indexes, prefaces, and such
Publisher: Francofurti
& Lipsiae : Krauss, 1773.
Size: ~8in X 6.75in (20cm x 17.5cm)
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