Volume Thirty-Six        1994
Essays in History
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Bibliography for "To Prevent a 'Shipwreck of Souls': Johann Weyer and 'De Praestigiis Daemonum.'"

Elisa Slattery


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---Vandermeersch, Patrick. "The victory of psychiatry over demonology: the origin of the nineteenth-century myth", History of Psychiatry, ii (1991), 351-363, England.

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