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Demon Lovers: Witchcraft, Sex, and the Crisis of Belief Ed 2
On September 20, 1587, Walpurga Hausmnnin 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 fortyone infants and two mothers in labor, her evil career allegedly began with just one heinous actsex 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 Read more