This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1844 Excerpt: ... talked of but charms and talismans, hieroglyphics, mysterious medals, constellated rings, enchanted images. But very frequently these extravagances served as a cloak for criminal designs: and all the pretended sorcerers did not get off Bo easily as Ruggieri. L'Etoile relates that in 1587 an Italian seventy years of ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1844 Excerpt: ... talked of but charms and talismans, hieroglyphics, mysterious medals, constellated rings, enchanted images. But very frequently these extravagances served as a cloak for criminal designs: and all the pretended sorcerers did not get off Bo easily as Ruggieri. L'Etoile relates that in 1587 an Italian seventy years of age was hanged for magic and sorcery; that he was the head of a numerous band; and that it was alleged there were thirty thousand of them, "astrologers, sorcerers, and philosophers"--these terms being then synonymous. These wretch es corrupted the mind of the multitude, eager after the marvellous, filled it with fears, suspicions, prejudices, superstitions, and gave rise to accusations and too ofteti to crimes. Bianchi, perfumer to Catherine, was accused by public report of having poisoned the queen of Navarre by means of a pair of scented gloves. However innocent he might be of this charge, supported by no evidence, he showed by his conduct that he was capable of that or any other crime. Hear the testimony of an eyewitness. "Master Rene, an Italian, was one of the butchers of St. Bartholomew, a man steeped in all sorts of cruelties and atrocities; who went to the prisons to stab the Hugonots, and lived entirely by murder, robbery, and poisoning. The day after the massacre, he enticed to his house his best friend, a rich jeweller, upon pretence of offering him an asylum; and, violating all the sacred rights of nature, friendship, and hospitality, he murdered him with his own hands, and dragged his corpse to the river." He died upon a dunghill, his wife in an infamous house, and his two sons on the wheel in 1586. It were an endless task to reveal all the secrets of the corruption which marked the entry of Catherine de Medicis ...
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