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38 DOCUMENTS ON WITCHCRAFT b clearly--For this reason they do not have jurisdiction in doubtful cases; and it is permitted that the judges ask of others whether they have jurisdiction. . . . So then, if it is not clearly the case, they should not become involved unless evidence becomes manifest. . . . Question 1: Under what circumstances can inquisitors become involved in the investigation of witchcraft? Question 2: Is witchcraft itself a heresy? Question 3: What can make witchcraft a heresy?
DOCUMENTS ON WITCHCRAFT 39 SUPERSTITION IN MEDIEVAL CANON LAW (WHOLE SECTION) CASE TWENTY-SIX Gratian: A certain priest is convicted before his bishop of lot-casting and divination; corrected by his bishop, he refuses to stop; he is excommunicated; in the end, on his deathbed, he is reconciled by a certain priest, without consulting the bishop; he is then placed under temporal penance as determined by the canons. I. First it is asked, who are lot-casters? II. Second, whether lot-casting is a sin? III. Third, whence originates the practice of divination? IV. Fourth, how many types of divination are there? V. Fifth, whether lot-casters or diviners who persist should be excommunicated? VI. Sixth, whether someone excommunicated by a bishop can be reconciled by a priest without consulting the bishop? VII. Seventh, should temporal penance be imposed on the dying? QUESTION ONE Gratian: Isidore, Etymologies, 7, defines lot-casters as follows: Who are lot-casters. C. 1. Lot-casters are those who, under the name of false religion, perform divination by lot, invoking the names of apostles or saints; or who predict the future by consulating the Scriptures. QUESTION TWO Gratian: That the casting of lots is not a sin is proved from practice and authorities: When Achan [Jos 7: 1-21] stole objects under the ban, the people were slaughtered at Ai because of his sin and fled the enemy. The Lord Joshua ordered that it be determined by lot whose sin caused the people to fall into the enemy's hands. Following Joshua's command, the lot fell on three tribes, and then on three families, and then on individuals, so that at last the lots indicated Achan. Also, Saul [1 Sam 14: 36-46], when he was fighting the Philistines, swore that he would kill anyone among the people who broke the fast before sundown; then, when the lots indicated that his son Jonathan had eaten the honey which he had touched with his staff, Saul wanted to put him to death, but at the people's intervention he revoked the condemnation. Also, Jonah [Jon 1: 1-17], when he was fleeing from the Lord's face, was identified by the sailors' casting of lots. He was thrown in the sea, and swallowed by the whale.
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