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      FOOTNOTES:

      3. Hunt, vol. i

      4. Bede, Bk. II, ch. xv.

      5. Strabo, Geography, Bk. IV, c. iv, 6.

      6. Dionysius, Periegetes, ll. 1120-5.

      II. THE GOD

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      1. As God

      It is impossible to understand the witch-cult without first understanding the position of the chief personage of that cult. He was known to the contemporary Christian judges and recorders as the Devil, and was called by them Satan, Lucifer, Beelzebub, the Foul Fiend, the Enemy of Salvation, and similar names appropriate to the Principle of Evil, the Devil of the Scriptures, with whom they identified him.

      This was far from the view of the witches themselves. To them this so-called Devil was God, manifest and incarnate; they adored him on their knees, they addressed their prayers to him, they offered thanks to him as the giver of food and the necessities of life, they dedicated their children to him, and there are indications that, like many another god, he was sacrificed for the good of his people.

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