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person to be a witch and maneater, and should on that account have burned him or eaten his flesh, or given it to others to eat." It is part of the goal of rejecting the existence of witches and that burning them was considered a pagan custom. To enforce the law and prosecute offenders, authorities sometimes used torture, which is an act sanctioned by the Roman civil law. A source stated that the
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who had caused the death of persons accused of witchcraft, condemned sorcerers to be servants to the church, commanded Saxons to have infants baptized the first year. The law is particularly noted for the way it also condemned to death "anyone who, blinded by the Devil, heathenwise should believe a
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