dissertation — Concina, Theologia Christiana III
Dissertation II — On the Vices Opposed to Religion, or On Superstition and Its Species
Contents
- Chapter I — Definition and division of superstition
- Chapter II — Various cases are here examined, in which it is determined whether superstition, properly speaking, is present
- Chapter III — The nature of idolatry, and the gravity of its malice, are here set forth
- Chapter IV — What divination is, and how many its species are
- Chapter V — On judicial astrology, or divination by the stars
- Chapter VI — On divination by dreams
- Chapter VII — On divination by augury, omens, and other such observations of external things
- Chapter VIII — On divination that is carried out by the use of lots
- Chapter IX — On vain observance
- Chapter X — On natural magic and its effects
- Chapter XI — On superstitious magic, or on sorcery
- Chapter XII — On witches, sorcerers, and "striges"
- Chapter XIII — On the penalties established against witches, and against all who enter into a pact — explicit or tacit — with demons