To the best of my memory, image baptism was a part of a larger practice of
using images in working magic. On John XXII's enactments vs. sorcery, see
J.B. Russell, Witchcraft in the Middle Ages, pp. 172-74, 181. See esp. p.
325 n. 7 on the accusation that Galeazzo Visconti tried to kill the pope
using a wax doll.
tom izbicki
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