- scholars. He is also
known as an
early theorist on witchcraft; in his De
maleficis mulieribus, quae
vulgariter di****ur
bruxas (1440) he
defended the possibility...
-
Festus (fl. late 2nd century)
glossed as "women who
practice witchcraft" "(
maleficis mulieribus)" or "flying women" ("witches" by transference)
There are striges...
- Old
Testament (8th–2nd
centuries BC)
Directorium Inquisitorum (1376) De
maleficis mulieribus (1440)
Formicarius (1475)
Summis desiderantes affectibus (1484)...
- of the
power of the
flying ointment in his
Tractatus de
strigibus sive
maleficis ('Treatise on
witches or evildoers') of 1525. The
first concerns an incident...
-
Matteo Malefici Antonio di
Forese Sacchetti Bardo di
Guglielmo Altoviti Salvi Filippo Salvi Giovanni d'Angiolo
Capponi Antonio di
Filippo Tolosini Recco...
- ****ctions
against magic and divination. One
example was the law of 409 de
maleficis et
mathematicis against astrologers ordering them to
return to Catholicism...
- 129, book III,
chapter 38, p 160. At Bernardo,
insidiis muliebribus,
maleficis artibus corpore fatescente,
vitae privato, Santius,
frater eius, dux Wasconum...
- not to be
called witchcraft (maleficium), nor
magicians (magi)
witches (
malefici), and that the p****age of Holy Scripture, "Thou
shalt not
suffer a witch...
-
state gods (άθεοι, sacrilegi)
Followers of
magic prohibited by law (magi,
malefici)
Confessors of a
religion unauthorized by the law (religio nova, peregrina...
- strigae—vampires or mares—because they "do not exist". The same law also
dealt with
malefici or "sorcerers",
punishing their misdeeds.
Taxes on
trade were increased...
