Talk:Sabbath (witchcraft)

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"It is true that Satanism was and is practised..." That sentence must be removed. Satanism wasn't practiced when the witch-hunts occurred. Giving porridge to fairies, magic or such isn't Satanism. Satanism is a 20th century and later movement. [1] -Hapsiainen 18:53, Nov 5, 2004 (UTC)

...and is actually a (anti)-Christian sect characterized by reversal of traditional Christian beliefs and practices, more made up by paranoid Christians than by current practitioners.

[edit] Witchcraft is not about worshiping the devil.

You all people are crazy. Us witches do not worship the devil. I worship God, I have been saved, and babtised. I do not follow the devil. Christians have a sabbath. If you would actually read the bible you will see that God says that you should obey the sabbath. So if Christians have a sabbath and so do witches, does that mean that Christians worship the devil too? Think about it.

[edit] Binsfeld

Commentarius de Maleficius (1622), by Peter Binsfeld...

This is not good Latin: it should be Commentarius de Malefico (or perhaps -a or -is). However, I didn't want to change the text without checking to see what the actual title of the book was first (maybe the error was deliberate or something). So I checked Worldcat, which is usually an excellent resource for these questions, but I didn't find this book. Binsfeld DID write a Commentarius in titulum iuris canonici De simonia (which is not about witchcraft), and a Tractatus de confessionibus maleficorum et sagarum (which is not called "Commentarius"). Am I missing something? --Iustinus 10:56, 12 Mar 2005 (UTC)