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With the rise of Christianity, the perception of maleficium shifted dramatically. Church Fathers like Augustine of Hippo argued that all pagan magic was inherently demonic. However, the crucial legal turning point came with the and later the Justinian Code (529 CE) . These laws began to conflate malefica with apostasy. Malefica