Daemonologie

By: King James I

Narrated by: Dean Delp

Daemonologie

In Forme of a Dialogie

Divided into three Books

Published in 1597

By King James I

In 1597, a series of witch trials were held in Scotland which resulted in about 200 executions.

The Scottish King James VI (who became James I of England in 1603) took a great interest in the trials and was inspired to write Daemonologie, a text in which the detection and classification of acts of sorcery and the resulting judicial processes are discussed in the form of a Socratic dialogue.

In an appendix, entitled News From Scotland, the author discusses the case of John Fian, who was executed for witchcraft in 1591.

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James’ fictional dialogue is a nice enough way to break up sections of his teaching. Don’t expect a great story; the dialogue is mainly an alternative to titles and subtitles, and it makes parenthetical parts more wieldy.

If you want something perfectly flawlessly doctrinal of the Christian faith, read his translation of the Bible.

The book immediately destroyed my absolute doubt in something, and i was very impressed at such a feat. It said that necromancers and magicians are the masters of their devil. But then it pointed out that a demon would willingly bare this, for the price of the person’s eternal soul. And it said that this is demon’s main desire. Thus i was immediately convinced of what i thought absurd beyond consideration fractions of seconds earlier.

The appendix of the news of Witch-Hunts in Scotland has _some_ value to it. Nonetheless, these Protestants hadn’t yet flushed out all their Dark Age Popery out of their system. And thus a wretched remnant of torture, like unto the Catholic-as-Babel Inquisition remained in their justice system. It is even mentioned as a given. And the witches’ resistance to confess their witchery, rather than the torture used to extract such a confession, is condemned & gawked at in this appendix. There was also No mention whatsoever of binding or exorcising the witches’ devils. Catholicists are absolutely horrible at exorcisms, which ought to be a rather painless moment. Again, these wonderful Protestants who were used mightily by God, still had terribly wicked Romanist ways about them, in the Witch-Hunts. You might likely wish to finish the main body of this book, and skip its appendix.

The man himself

King James Version Bible has been described as one of the most important books in English culture and a driving force in the shaping of the English-speaking world.

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