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| | Bodin, Jean (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-06) |
 | | Jean Bodin, an Angevin by birth, was born in Prague, and studied law that lead to his publishing of the Republique, which has been said to be "the term of the law." However, it was for his Demonomaie des Sorcies that he became famous as an occultist. |
 | | He describes the methods of diabolic prophecy and communication, and those of evocation of evil existences of pacts with the Devil, of journeys through the air to sorcerers' Sabbath, of infernal ecstasies, spells by which one may change himself into a werewolf (see Lycanthropy), and of carnal communion with incubi and succubi. |
 | | Bodin concluded his study by refuting John Wier, or Wierius, who, he asserts, was in error in believing sorcerers to be fools and people of unsound mind, and states that books of that author should be burnt "for the honor of God." |
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