Demon Lovers
Witchcraft, Sex, and the Crisis of Belief
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List of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsNote on TranslationsIntroduction: Sex Fiends1. Witchcraft Theory: Copulation with Demons as Carnal Knowledge2. Why Women? The Malleus maleficarum3. Sexy Devils: How They Got Bodies4. Incredible Sex: Confronting the Difficulty of Belief5. From Dreams to Reality: Why Witches Fly6. Experiments with Witches7. The Theory of Witchcraft Power8. "This Is My Body": Witches and Desecration9. Witches, Infanticide, and Power10. Illusion and Reality, Part One: Crib Death and Stealthy Cats11. Illusion and Reality, Part Two: Witches Who Steal Penises12. Interview with the Demon: From Exorcism to Witchcraft13. Witchcraft, Body, and SoulConclusion: Talking around the UnspeakableNotesWorks CitedIndex
This work argues that a number of devout Christians, including trained theologians, displayed an uncanny preoccupation with the topic of witches having sex with demons during the centuries of the "witch craze". It analyzes the first treatises on witchcraft to discover why.
