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After his long distance possible queen died at sea. King James believed he was the target of an international Satanic conspiracy – he was personally involved in the infamously lethal North Berwick Witch Trials of the 1590s, an experience which had a profound impact on him and inspired him to write Demonology.

Witchcraft: real
Necromancy: real
Sorcery: real
Spirits: real

But werewolves? Pfft. C'mon bro, really? Those aren't a thing.

Why am I reading this?
The country is debating whether or not my ladyfriends should have rights and the orange menace potentially just got found with nuclear secrets.

I miss seeing stupid historic shikanery. Like when a king loses his long-distance waifu at sea and blames made up witches for all of his problems.

James frames his argument in a Socratic dialogue between Epistemon, a wholehearted believer in witchcraft, and Philomathes, a skeptic.

Demonology is a treatise on witchcraft and the occult written by King James VI of Scotland (later James I of England), first published in 1597.