Were Those Who Invoked Demons Subject to the Inquisition?

This video explores what the 14th-century Dominican inquisitor Nicholas Eymeric believed should be done with invokers of demons, "either magicians or heretics, or those suspected of heresy." In his Directorium Inquisitorum (1376), he organized these kinds of individuals into different categories relative to the severity of their crime. Find out what sort of operations merely landed you in prison, and what warranted the ultimate punishment according to the opinion of this learned friar.

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