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100 1 $aStephens, Walter,$d1949-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n88137130
245 10 $aDemon lovers :$bwitchcraft, sex, and the crisis of belief /$cWalter Stephens.
260 $aChicago :$bUniversity of Chicago Press,$c2002.
300 $axv, 451 pages :$billustrations ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 421-441) and index.
505 00 $tIntroduction: Sex Fiends --$g1.$tWitchcraft Theory: Copulation with Demons as Carnal Knowledge --$g2.$tWhy Women? The Malleus maleficarum --$g3.$tSexy Devils: How They Got Bodies --$g4.$tIncredible Sex: Confronting the Difficulty of Belief --$g5.$tFrom Dreams to Reality: Why Witches Fly --$g6.$tExperiments with Witches --$g7.$tThe Theory of Witchcraft Power --$g8.$t"This Is My Body": Witches and Desecration --$g9.$tWitches, Infanticide, and Power --$g10.$tIllusion and Reality, Part One: Crib Death and Stealthy Cats --$g11.$tIllusion and Reality, Part Two: Witches Who Steal Penises --$g12.$tInterview with the Demon: From Exorcism to Witchcraft --$g13.$tWitchcraft, Body, and Soul --$tConclusion: Talking around the Unspeakable.
520 1 $a"On 20 September 1587 Walpurga Hausmannin 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 forty-one infants and two mothers in labor, her evil career allegedly began with just one heinous act - sex with a demon.
520 8 $aFornication 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 diverse places,...even in the street by night."".
520 8 $a"As Walter Stephens demonstrates in Demon Lovers, it was not Hausmannin or other so-called witches who were obsessive about sex with demons - instead, a number of devout Christians, including trained theologians, displayed an uncanny preoccupation with the topic during the centuries of the "witch craze." Why?
520 8 $aTo find out, Stephens conducts a detailed investigation of the first and most influential treatises on witchcraft (written between 1430 and 1530), including the infamous Malleus maleficarum (Hammer of Witches).".
520 8 $a"Far from being credulous fools or mindless misogynists, early writers on witchcraft emerge in Stephens's account as rational but reluctant skeptics, trying desperately to resolve contradictions in Christian thought on God, spirits, and the sacraments that had bedeviled theologians for centuries.
520 8 $aProof of the physical existence of demons - for instance, through evidence of their intercourse with mortal witches - would provide strong evidence for the reality of the supernatural, the truth of the Bible, and the existence of God. Early modern witchcraft theory reflected a crisis of belief - a crisis that continues to be expressed today in popular debates over angels, satanic ritual child abuse, and alien abduction."--BOOK JACKET.
650 0 $aWitchcraft and sex$xHistory.
650 0 $aDemonology$xHistory.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2009123185
650 0 $aTrials (Witchcraft)$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85137403
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