(03-10-2025, 05:18 PM)Bluetoes101 wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.The trick was saying "If one was to do this sort of thing, which you definitely shouldn't.. but, if you were....." and that got you more of a "side eye" from the church rather than punishment. If you wrote about things in the right way you could get away with a lot. On being persecuted, even the often quoted "Spanish inquisition" were not the rampaging murderous horde that they are painted to be, most times they told you to stop doing the thing you were doing, if you refused or carried on you may incur their wrath.
This only seems to apply to books published under the author's name. For instance the anonymous - likely clerically authored - CLM 849 (The Munich Necromancer's Handbook) not only gives straightforward instructions for spells, but the author even claims to have performed them, including a detailed account of summoning a whole illusory castle.