History A-Level
Legal change and the criminalisation of the diabolic pact
What Legal change and the criminalisation of the diabolic pact means in History A-Level, as defined for Pearson Edexcel.
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The 1604 statute made a pact with a familiar spirit a capital felony without benefit of clergy, so a confession of a familiar, not just harm, could hang a suspect.
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- Paper 3, Option 33: The witch craze in Britain, Europe and North America, c1580–c1750 - 2 The Lancashire witches of 1604–13 (Pearson Edexcel A-Level)
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