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Demon Lovers : Witchcraft, Sex, and the Crisis of Belief Author_Hazel Barkworth and the reasons for ritualOn September 20, 1587, Walpurga Hausmnnin of Dillingen in southern Germany was burned at the stake as a witch. Although she had confessed to committing a long list of maleficia (deeds of harmful magic), including killing forty one infants and two mothers in labor, her evil career allegedly began with just one heinous act sex with a demon. Fornication with demons was a major theme of her trial record, which detailed an almost continuous orgy of sexual