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Daemonologie (full name "Daemonologie, In Forme of a Dialogie, Diuided into three Bookes. By James Rx") is the book written and published in 1597 by King James VI of Scotland (later also James I of England). In the book he approves and supports the practise of witch hunting. He starts the book: "The fearefull aboundinge at this time in this countrie, of these detestable slaves of the Devil, the Witches or enchaunters, hath moved me (beloved reader) to dispatch in post, this following treatise of mine (...) to resolve the doubting (...) both that such assaults of Satan are most certainly practised, and that the instrument thereof merits most severely to be punished."
He was influenced by his personal involvement in the North Berwick witch trials.
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Witch-hunts in Early Modern Europe In British Isles Witches of Warboys (1589–1593) · North Berwick witch trials (1590) · Pendle witches (1612) · Northamptonshire witch trials (1612) · Samlesbury witches (1612) · Witches of Belvoir (1619) · Bury St. Edmunds witch trials (1645, 1662, 1655 & 1694) · Bideford witch trial (1684) · Paisley witches (1696) · Islandmagee witch trial (1711)
In France Aix-en-Provence possessions (1611) · Loudun possessions (1634) · Louviers Possessions (1647) · Poison affair (1679)
In Germany Wiesensteig witch trial (1562–1563) · Trier witch trials (1581–1593) · Fulda witch trials (1603–1606) · Ellwangen witch trial (1611–1618) · Würzburg witch trial (1626–1631) · Bamberg witch trials (1626–1631) · Witch trial of Fuersteneck (1703)
In Scandinavia Køge Huskors (1608–1615) · Finspång witch trial (1617) · Vardø witch trials (1621) · Ramsele witch trial (1634) · Kirkjuból witch trial (1656) · Vardø Witch Trials (1662–1663) · Mora witch trial (1669) · Torsåker witch trials (1675)
Elsewhere
in EuropeValais witch trials (1428–1447) · Val Camonica witch trials (1505, 1518) · Fairy witch trials of Sicily · Benandanti · Basque witch trials (1609) · Roermond witch trial (1613) · Spa witch trial (1616) · Werewolf witch trials · Witch trial of Nogaredo (1646–1647) · Salzburg witch trials (1675–1681) · Northern Moravia witch trials (1678) · Liechtenstein witch trials (1679–1682) · Szeged witch trials (1728–1729) · Doruchowo witch trial (1783)
Texts Formicarius (1475) · Malleus Maleficarum (1486) · Witchcraft Act (England) (1562) · Newes from Scotland (1591) · Daemonolatreiae libri tres (1595) · Daemonologie (1597)
Other Salem witch trials (1692–1693)
Categories:- Witch hunting
- 1597 books
- Occult books
- Works by James VI and I
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