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Compendium
Maleficarum
by Francesco Maria Guazzo
 This
was the ultimate field guide for the beginning demonologist in the
17th century. Guazzo's Compendium was accepted by his
contemporaries as the authoritative manuscript on witchcraft.
Later demonologists continued to hail the conciseness and clarity
with which Guazzo analyzes the practice. The Compendium not
only gives an organized account of the subject matter but provides
a glimpse at the Christian view of witchcraft during the early
17th century. (Read
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