Pseudomonarchia Daemonum Portugues Pdf 59
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Weyer's life was spent in clinical observation. He thought in terms of the individual patient and his special concerns. In horror he wondered at the atrocities committed around him in the name of the Mother Church and God. He knew first hand of the tortures, the filth, disease, and death in the dungeons and jails where \"witches\" were held for long pre-trial periods. He was repulsed by the fanatical methods of execution: burning at the stake, drowning, hanging, beheading, prolonged beating, or tearing the body to pieces on the rack. How, he wondered, could all this be done in the name of a loving God? He, too, was more or less a practicing Catholic, and he believed that witches and demon possession could exist, but he denied the supposed power of the Devil in the wretched lives of most of the accused, for he saw about him women called accomplices in evil, but who were so frightened, so ignorant, so destroyed mentally by their hallucinations arising out of their miserable lives, that they were unable to sustain any denial of the charges against them. Believable and trusted witnesses were rarely to be had. Many such women, as well as trouble-making, malingering, or delusional children, usually girls, he studied individually, often taking them into his own home where he and his wife cared for them, closely observed them, counseled them, and brought them back to mental and physical normalcy. He saw mental illness where the Church and State saw criminality, and he was the first physician boldly to confront the Inquisition and deny its right to carry on in the name of Christianity. He saw the individual, not the mass mania of witchcraft, as the point to which he must direct his efforts for reform, and he could only be this defiant because of his royal protection. The lengthy arguments and twisted logic of The Malleus Maleficarum as to why confession under torture was valid (the victim was finally brought to her senses through the intercession of Our Lord) particularly fired his scorn. In writing De Praestigiis Daemonum he must have had before him a copy of The Malleus Maleficarum, for his book is almost a sentence by sentence refutation of The Malleus Maleficarum. His derision of the tortuous and ludicrous \"logic\" of the book was a consuming passion with him. 7211a4ac4a