La Sorcière: The Witch of the Middle Ages

by Jules Michelet & Lionel Lionel James Trotter (Translator)

First published: Date unknown
Language: English

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"La Sorcière: The Witch of the Middle Ages" by Jules Michelet is a history book published in 1862. Michelet portrays medieval witchcraft as an act of popular rebellion against feudalism and the Catholic Church, depicting secret religions and Witches' Sabbaths organized by oppressed peasants and women. The first part imaginatively reconstructs the lives of medieval witches, while the second recounts actual witch trials across Europe. Though largely inaccurate, it stands as one of the first sympathetic histories of witchcraft. (This is an automatically generated summary.)

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Included because retained bibliographic metadata links this work to Demonology, angelology, and possession and Witchcraft and folk magic.

Witchcraft and folk magic
Controlled discovery queries from project-gutenberg matched “witchcraft”. Retained metadata contains “Witchcraft” in the description, “witches” in the description, and “Witchcraft” in the subject metadata.
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Demonology, angelology, and possession
Controlled discovery queries from project-gutenberg matched “satanism”. Retained metadata contains “Satanism” in the subject metadata.
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- “Satanism”· in subject

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Edition	Date	Publisher	Language	ISBN	Access	Links
Project Gutenberg electronic edition Project Gutenberg metadata does not identify the source print edition.	2010-02-27	Project Gutenberg	English	—	Public domain (USA)	Project Gutenberg (opens in a new tab)