HIST 421 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Necromancy, Caterina Sforza, Holda
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Learned works were translated into the vernacular so they could be read by literate people even if they didn"t know latin. Some people were using traditional and oral magic. One man was a sorcerer and was in italy. He wanted to sleep around a lot and wanted women to fall in love with him. Saturn, saturn was a planet of melancholy but also a planet of limitations because it is the last planet you can see with the eye without any aid and had a retardatory effect which would slow down growth. He must have had some education, but was not a clergy man. He drew the ire of the church because he practiced as an exorcist and drew demons out of people with some success. He whispered an incantation into the ear of a girl afflicted by devils and eventually the devils left and she returned to her normal state.
