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Title Page of James I's Daemonologie
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James (then James VI of Scotland) wrote this trait in 1597 supporting witch hunting: "The fearful abounding, at this time and in this country of these detestable slaves of the devil, the witches (...) hath moved me 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."
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