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... doctors and the common people , but even kings and emperors , were ad- dicted to it . The Emperor Frederick II . , in the thirteenth century , is said to have used magic arts ; and Rudolph II . and Charles V. are said to have been much ...
... doctors and the common people , but even kings and emperors , were ad- dicted to it . The Emperor Frederick II . , in the thirteenth century , is said to have used magic arts ; and Rudolph II . and Charles V. are said to have been much ...
Page 205
... doctor . Lachenäre , Lachenärinne , express Sorcerer and Sorceress . One of the Scandinavian Asinor was considered the most experienced of doctresses . Amongst the people there are still old women who practise forms of invocation ...
... doctor . Lachenäre , Lachenärinne , express Sorcerer and Sorceress . One of the Scandinavian Asinor was considered the most experienced of doctresses . Amongst the people there are still old women who practise forms of invocation ...
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... doctor has bound up a rupture , may lift the heaviest weight without any danger . A piece of wood out of a coffin that has been dug up , when laid in a cabbage bed defends it from caterpillars . One should not lean over a cradle where a ...
... doctor has bound up a rupture , may lift the heaviest weight without any danger . A piece of wood out of a coffin that has been dug up , when laid in a cabbage bed defends it from caterpillars . One should not lean over a cradle where a ...
Page 218
... doctors of medi- cine could find no cure . The children fell down suddenly , and lost all consciousness . They were terribly racked and torn . They stamped with the feet , struck their arms and their heads on the earth , gnashed their ...
... doctors of medi- cine could find no cure . The children fell down suddenly , and lost all consciousness . They were terribly racked and torn . They stamped with the feet , struck their arms and their heads on the earth , gnashed their ...
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... disputation , were the most wretched pretenders in the healing of diseases . He was one of the greatest chemists of his time ; and as he saw through much experience that the Galenic doctors , with 230 HISTORY OF MAGIC .
... disputation , were the most wretched pretenders in the healing of diseases . He was one of the greatest chemists of his time ; and as he saw through much experience that the Galenic doctors , with 230 HISTORY OF MAGIC .
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