Pope innocent viii witchcraft
Pope innocent viii witchcraft guide.
Pope innocent viii witchcraft
Summis desiderantes affectibus
1484 papal bull on witchcraft
Summis desiderantes affectibus (Latin for "desiring with supreme ardor"), sometimes abbreviated to Summis desiderantes,[1][2] was a papal bull regarding witchcraft issued by Pope Innocent VIII on 5 December 1484.[3]
Witches and the Church
Belief in witchcraft is ancient.
Deuteronomy 18:11–12 in the Hebrew Bible states: "Let there not be found among you anyone who immolates his son or daughter in the fire, nor a fortune-teller, soothsayer, charmer, diviner, or caster of spells, nor one who consults ghosts and spirits or seeks oracles from the dead."
Pope Gregory VII wrote to Harald III of Denmark in 1080 forbidding witches to be put to death upon presumption of their having caused storms or failure of crops or pestilence.
According to Herbert Thurston, the fierce denunciation and persecution of supposed sorceresses which characterized the witchhunts of a later age, were not ge