term maleficium applied to forms of sorcery or witchcraft that were conducted with the intention of causing harm. Early in the 14th century, maleficium was...

Look up maleficium in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Maleficium may refer to: Maleficium (sorcery), a Latin term meaning "evildoing", "wrongdoing",...

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use of supernatural powers or magic for evil and selfish purposes Maleficium (sorcery), malevolent, dangerous, or harmful magic Bad Magic Records, an imprint...

Until around 1440, witchcraft-related prosecutions in Europe centered on maleficium, the concept of using supernatural powers specifically to harm others...

difference in sense can be seen in constructions like "zagovory from maleficium"/"from bullets" (defensive, apotropaic aspect) and nagovory onto water...

heretical—of engaging in magical activities. Medieval Europe also saw the term maleficium applied to forms of magic that were conducted with the intention of causing...

According to the Masoretic Text, practitioners of kashaph – incanting maleficium. According to the Septuagint version of the same passages, pharmakeia...

increasingly comprehensive theology of Satan as the ultimate source of all maleficium. These doctrinal shifts were completed in the mid-15th century, specifically...

witches were usually women who were believed to have used black magic or maleficium against their own community. Usually, accusations of witchcraft were made...

for sorcery only if it had been combined with murder (maleficium), but there are no confirmed case that anyone was actually executed for sorcery in Sweden...

performed maleficium, harmful acts of sorcery, against others. The introduction of the idea of demonic forces empowering the acts of maleficium gave the...

took the appearance of spirits. The practice became known explicitly as maleficium, and the Catholic Church condemned it. Though the practitioners of necromancy...

referred to as porcha, a Russian equivalent of the European concept of maleficium. There was a belief that some people had the ability to use the mystic...

for an annulment on the grounds of non-consummation "per maleficium", impotence caused by sorcery. (Historians have presented many theories for the alleged...

prayed while naked. Consequently, he was charged with practicing magic (maleficium), for which he was convicted and sentenced to death. Ithacius was his...

heretical—of engaging in magical activities. Medieval Europe also saw the term maleficium applied to forms of magic that were conducted with the intention of causing...

Europe, witches were usually believed to be women who used black magic (maleficium) against their community, and often to have communed with demons or the...

sorcery only if it had been combined with murder (maleficium), and until the mid 17th century, the sorcery cases were only one or two annually and very rarely...

Chattox, Anne Redferne and Alizon Device to Lancaster Gaol, to be tried for maleficium – causing harm by witchcraft – at the next assizes. The committal and...

the majority of such being simple sorcery–magical healing, with a minority practicing malicious spells–maleficium. In contrast to the earlier European...

the 11th-century, but only if magic was used to cause someone's death (maleficium and veneficium). King Coloman of Hungary (reign 1095–1116), prohibited...

dreams. 6. Also, that magic (magia) ought not to be called witchcraft (maleficium), nor magicians (magi) witches (malefici), and that the passage of Holy...

heretical—of engaging in magical activities. Medieval Europe also saw the term maleficium applied to forms of magic that were conducted with the intention of causing...

volumes of Sufi thought, ideas, and materials. Black magic and maleficium or sorcery have been practised through the ages with the aid of certain jealously...

during ancient times as well as being associated with black magic and maleficium during the Late Middle Ages. During this period in medieval Europe, the...

María Victoria Escribano Paño (2010). "Chapter Three. Heretical texts and maleficium in the Codex Theodosianum (CTh. 16.5.34)". In Richard Lindsay Gordon;...

courts shifted away from the activities of cunning-folk and towards the maleficium of supposed witches" – the Witch Hunt that had been raging in Scotland...

century, Morgaine trains her sisters Morgause and Elaine to be adept with sorcery like her. Following Gorlois' death at Uther's hands, Morgaine blames her...

at the same assizes, who included the Pendle witches, were accused of maleficium – causing harm by witchcraft. The case against the three women collapsed...