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Italian Scholar Presents Superstition Lecture
Author: The Oracle Source: The Oracle (Henderson State Univ., AK)
Title: ITALIAN SCHOLAR PRESENTS SUPERSTITION LECTURE
October has arrived, along with cooler weather and, of course, Halloween. Stores all across the nation will be selling their spooky decorations: black cats, broomsticks and witch attire. But portraying oneself as a witch was not the best of decisions in medieval times, as Italian scholar Fabrizio Conti explained in his presentation at the Garrison Center last Wednesday. Before the 14th and 15th centuries, people did not see crime in magic.
Conti explained just how the world began to see common pagan traditions as witchcraft as a result of the teachings of Franciscan Observants between 1475 and 1476 in his presentation titled "Preachers and Confessors against Superstition: Bernardino Busti and Sermon 16 of his Rosarium Sermonum."
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| Malleus Maleficarum | Oct 14th. at 2:27:52 pm EDT
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Ahr-Ohn (Bridgeport, Connecticut) - Email Me
Involving us in the Viet Nam War seemed a master stroke, of the KGB, and I expect their agent had an exit strategy waiting, for the CIA to catch up with Reality, because nobody could ever believe the CIA that stupid. The CIA Manual in use, had likely started as a KGB Joke Book, "DUMB IDEAS from the Freshmen."
The period under discussion, was contemporary with the Malleus Maleficarum, and a century after the Templars fell under the Inquisition. The Templars had never been convicted, but for a Papal Bull denying they'd never been convicted. The Inquisition resulted from the slaughter of a city, in the course of The Albigensian Crusade, which'd been a crusade, and some better way of punishing Heretics was desired.
I suspect, that the two authors of the Malleus Maleficarum did not actually write that book, but got it from someone who'd been protesting the Inquisition, and wrote a joke book deprecating such paranoia. The Franciscans were an unlettered lot, trying to learn Christianity in the laboratory, rather than in the Indoctrination Class-Room, but took to this joke book, as a claim to authority, when their wisdom was a long way from mature.
It was a joke book, the kind that never intended to result in actual decapitations; neither is it an actual portrayal of how to negotiate with otherwise rather nice Pagan Gods.
Arawn Graalrd
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