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How Witches Became The Devil's Property

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In the medieval times witches were authenticated by confessing to have slept with the Devil, or if they had done any harm to women in their fertility. The book highlights descriptive ways on how witches became the Devil’s property. Some witches stated that a man that they were sexually fantasizing with would come and have sex with them. Then they would notice such difference once they were intimate, the witches described the intimacy they had as abnormally cold. “The strange coldness, typical of the Devil, who does not have a human body; the hard feet, which hints that these are cloven animal hooves” (Roper, 2004, p.84). Witches authenticated this person as the Devil, because he would say that she belonged to him now. Meaning that by having
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