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MeLKoR posted:Interestingly the catholic church always denied that witchcraft was real, people got burnt for heresy if they insisted on saying that they had real powers instead of simply having been deceived by the devil as the inquisition "explained" to them. Even so there were very few executions of witches in the south, that was largely a protestant phenomenon. Depends on what timeframe you're talking about, there was a time in the 16th, 17th and early 18th century where quite a few theologians abandoned the old belief of magic as satanic trickery and instead came to the conviction that it was real (but still evil and satanic in origin, of course). This coincided with the great witch scare of the early modern era in both Catholic and Protestant territories (though not all of them; in some areas, nobody was sentenced for witchcraft at all, while in others thousands had to die during that time)
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