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icymist

(15,888 posts)
Sat Dec 1, 2012, 11:12 PM Dec 2012

Rare book on witchcraft discovered in Alberta library

Even though he thinks the weathered tome is a fascinating cultural treasure, unearthed by chance in a musty section of an Albertalibrary, Andrew Gow doesn’t like to be near it.

“It’s a very, very nasty piece of work, and I can tell you that I don’t like to touch it,” he said.

The book positions itself as a guide to expunge all evil and vanquish the dark forces of witchcraft detailed so vividly in its 150 pages of 15th-century Burgundian French.

“The real evil is actually in this book, and it’s human. It’s not magical,” said Gow, a medieval history professor. “It’s a view of one’s fellow human beings as agents of the devil that is truly evil.”

http://www.therecord.com/news/canada/article/841220---rare-book-on-witchcraft-discovered-in-alberta-library#.ULEcrYsWAa4.facebook

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Rare book on witchcraft discovered in Alberta library (Original Post) icymist Dec 2012 OP
thanks for posting the link. Tuesday Afternoon Dec 2012 #1
Thanks for that u4ic Dec 2012 #2
Interesting; reminds me of a book I just read "A Discovery of Witches" Flaxbee Dec 2012 #3
I just finished this, and the followup book as well. Lucinda Jan 2013 #6
any chance of an English translation on Guttenburg.org? gejohnston Jan 2013 #4
This sounds very interesting!! Behind the Aegis Jan 2013 #5
I sounds like a version of the Malleus Maleficarum. Lady Freedom Returns Feb 2013 #7

u4ic

(17,101 posts)
2. Thanks for that
Tue Dec 11, 2012, 03:45 AM
Dec 2012

when I go back to visit family and friends, I'll try to have a look. I, too, will no doubt be horrified at what it contains.

Behind the Aegis

(54,901 posts)
5. This sounds very interesting!!
Wed Jan 16, 2013, 12:14 AM
Jan 2013

I would love to see it for two reasons, the alleged "evilness" of it, and the fact it is written in Burgundian French. I love stuff like this!

Lady Freedom Returns

(14,180 posts)
7. I sounds like a version of the Malleus Maleficarum.
Sat Feb 2, 2013, 08:52 PM
Feb 2013

But the maleficarum was written after this. Wonder if they have much of the same things written in it?

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