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maleficium

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See: crime, mischief, misdeed

MALEFICIUM, civil law. Waste, damage, torts, injury. Dig. 5, 18, 1.



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The reality of maleficium confirmed the equal but opposite power of beneficium, theologically present in those energies and effects of the church's sacraments which, because they were imperceptible, ran the danger of being thought imaginary.
Accompanying the usual maleficium, healing, and divination activities, these documents present information that the accused conjured up the storms to delay Queen Anne and assisted Bothwell in his attempts first to gain the king's favor and then to destroy him.
[12] The dramatic escalation in the number of witch trials toward the end of the sixteenth century and the process by which the traditional maleficium of everyday village life was demonized is a problem that historians have approached from a variety of perspectives, often with conflicting results.
 
 
 
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