It was believed that people by the aid of the Devil could assume any shape they wished.
Witches and wizards were changed into wolves, dogs, cats and serpents.

Within two years, between 1598 and 1600, in one district of France, the district of Jura, more than six hundred men and women were tried and convicted before one judge of having changed themselves into wolves, and all were put to death.

This is only one instance. There were thousands.
- Robert Ingersoll, "The Devil"

You and I would not want to be the wife of an Early Christian Man...

QUESTION: What is more fickle than the wind?
ANSWER: The Judeo-Christian Religion and its doctrines on Marriage.

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presbyter, noun.1. an elder in the early Christian Church. 2. a minister or a lay elder in the Presbyterian Church. 3. a minister or a priest in the Episcopal Church.

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Source: The Apocalypse of the Holy Mother
Ante-Nicene Fathers; Volume 9; page 172

XIX
And she saw women hanging by their nails, and a flame of fire came out of their mouth and burned them: and all the beasts coming out of the fire gnawed them to pieces, and groaning they cried out: Have pity on us, have pity, for we are chastised worse than all those who are under chastisement. And seeing them the all holy one wept, and asked the commander-in-chief, Micheal: What are these and what is their sin? And the commander-in-chief said: These are the wives of presbyters who did not honour the presbyters, but after the death of the presbyter took husbands, and for this cause they are thus chastised here.

So much for the Old and New Testaments saying a woman could marry again after her husband was deceased.
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XX
And the all holy one saw after the same manner also a deaconess hanging from a crag and a beast with two heads devoured her breasts. (DO I SENSE AN UNSPOKEN LUST HERE?) And the all holy one asked: What is her sin? And the commander-in-chief said: She, all holy one, is an archdeaconess who defiled her body in fornication, and for this cause she is thus chastised here.

XXI. And she saw other women hanging over the fire, and all the beasts devoured them. And the all holy one asked the commander-in-chief: Who are these and what is their sin? And he said: These are they who did not do the will of God, lovers of money and those who took interest on accounts, and the immodest.

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It's a sin.

Not what these poor women in the visions were condemned for, but rather, that "Men of God" should be able to call such filthy writings, "divinely inspired".

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Hanging of Three Chelmsford witches
(English Pamphlet 1589)

Devil Seducing Witch.
Illustration for Ulrich Müller (Molotoris), Von den Unholden und Hexen

Urs Graf, Hermit and Devil
(1512). Pen and Ink Drawing. Öffenliche Kunstsammlung Basel, K.17.

Matthew Hopkins and their familiars (Old Woodcut)
Matthew Hopkins "Witch Finder General"

"Naked Young Witch with Fiend in Shape of Dragon"
(1515) Hans Baldung Grien

Temptation of Saint Anthony
Martin Schongauer, (ca. 1470)

Micheal Pacher, Saint Wolfgang and the Devil
from the Altarpiece of the Church Fathers (ca. 1475-79)

Luca Signorelli, The Damned
(ca.1503) Orvieto Cathedral, Cappella Nuova (Cappella di San Brizio).

Werewolf
Lucas Cranach Sr., (ca 1510)

"Witch Giving Ritual Kiss to Devil"
From Francesco Maria Guazzo, Compendium maleficarum 2d ed. (Milan, 1626)

Four Witches and Cat
Urs Graf, (1514)"Witches Who Steal Penises"

Salvation at Stake
- Women being cut in half and impaled on the Stake
Sixteenth Century Woodcut

Salvation at Stake
- Heretics "Saints" Being Burned Alive

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