The Sorceress, by Jules Michelet, [1939], at sacred-texts.com
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Introduction | ||
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Death of the Gods | |
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Christianity believed the world to be on the point of deathThe world of demonsThe Bride of Corinth |
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What Drove the Middle Ages to Despair | |
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The People makes itself LegendsBut originality is prohibitedThe People defends its landsBut is made a serf of |
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The Little Demon of the Hearth and Home | |
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Promiscuity of the primitive villaAn independent hearth and homeThe serf's wifeTrue to the old godsRobin Goodfellow |
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Temptations | |
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The Serf invokes the Spirit of Hidden TreasuresFeudal raids and cruel feudal customsThe goodwife's Brownie turns into a demon after all |
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Diabolical Possession | |
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Gold gains the mastery in 1300The peasant wife in alliance with the Demon of goldFoul terrors of the Middle AgesThe Lady of the VillageHatred and rivalry of the Lady of the Castle |
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The Pact with Satan | |
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The serf's wife gives herself to the DevilThe Sorceress and the Blasted Hearth |
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King of the Dead | |
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She calls back the spirits of loved ones deadConception of Satan softened and mollified |
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Prince of Nature | |
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Rigours of the Mediæval Winter relaxThe Sorceress submits to Oriental influencesConceives Nature |
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Satan the Healer | |
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Diseases of the Middle AgesThe Sorceress utilizes poisons for |
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their cureThe Solanaceæ (Herbs of Consolation)Women for the first time cared for medically |
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Charms and Love Potions | |
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Blue Beard and GriseldaThe Castle a suppliant to the SorceressHer cunning ways |
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Communion of RevoltWitches SabbathsThe Black Mass | |
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The old semi-Pagan SabasiaThe Black Mass, and its four Acts: Act I. The Introit, the Kiss of Devotion, the Banquet; Act II. The Offertory, Woman at once Altar and Sacrifice |
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Black Mass ContinuedLove and DeathSatan Disappears | |
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Act III. Incestuous love-making; Act IV. Death of Satan; the Sorceress flies to rejoin her lover in Hell |
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The Sorceress in Her DecadenceSatan Multiplied and Vulgarised | |
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Sorceresses and Sorcerers employed by the GreatThe Châtelaine a WerewolfLast of the love-potions |
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Persecutions | |
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The Malleus MaleficarumSatan master of the World |
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A Hundred Years Toleration in France | |
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Spain begins when France leaves offA reaction; the Lawyers show themselves as good at burning as the Priests |
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The Basque Witches, 1609 | |
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They direct their own Judges in the way they should go |
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Satan Turns Ecclesiastic, 1610 | |
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Diversions and Distractions of the Modern "Sabbath" |
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Gauffridi, 1610 | |
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Priests prosecuted for Sorcery by the MonksConventual jealousies |
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The Nuns of LoudunUrbain Grandier, 1633, 1634 | |
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An eloquent and popular Priest; suspected of SorceryMorbid and extraordinary manifestations among the Nuns of Loudun |
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The Nuns of Louviers And Satanic PossessionMadeleine Bavent, 1640-1647 | |
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Illuminism; the Devil plays QuietistDuel between the Fiend and the Physician |
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Satan Triumphant in the Seventeenth Century | |
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Father Girard and Charlotte Cadière | |
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Charlotte Cadière at the Convent of Ollioules | |
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Trial of Charlotte Cadière, 1730, 1731 | |
Epilogue | ||
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Satan and Jesus,is a Reconciliation possible?The Sorceress has perished, but the Fairy survives, and will surviveImminence of a Religious Renovation |
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Notes and Elucidations | ||
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The Inquisition | |
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Method of Procedure | |
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Satan as Physician, Love Philtres, etc. | |
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The Last Act of the Witches Sabbath | |
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Literature of Sorcery and Witchcraft | |
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Decadence, etc | |
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The spot where the present book was completed |