Compendium of Witches (Compendium Maleficarum)

The reading of these examples may allow one to take notice, and from there even draw a remedy original: "medellam," implying a spiritual healing or cure, with hands raised lifted up, giving thanks to God; who, for His own glory, the confusion of Demons, the exercise meaning the spiritual testing or discipline of souls, the perfection of the righteous, and the punishment of the damned, permits the Demons to rage in such a way for the doctrine and instruction of all.

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