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- ↑ "Witches were executed at Novgorod in 1227, and after a severe famine in the years 1271-4 Bishop Serapion of Vladimir asked in a sermon: 'you believe in witchcraft and burn innocent people and bring down murder upon earth and the city... Out of what books or writings do you learn that famine in earth is brought about by witchcraft?'", Behringer, "Witches and Witch-hunts: a Global History", p. 56 (2004). Wiley-Blackwell.
- "Serapion of Vladimir" in The Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium (1991)
- "Serapion of Vladimir (1275)" in The Oxford Dictionary of the Middle Ages (2010)