"...by far the most important principle accepted by the magistrates was the premise that the devil cannot assume the “shape” of an innocent person, the admission of the so-called “spectral evidence.” Thanks to this arrangement, hallucinations, dreams, and mere fancies would be accepted in court as factual proof not of the psychological condition of the accuser but of the behavior of the accused."
— Oct 31, 2016 10:12AM
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