Part Two. 15. A Hundred Years Toleration In France : * "The Sorceress", by Jules Michelet, [1939], p. 143 15 "A HUNDRED YEARS TOLERATION IN FRANCE" THE Church always granted the judge and the accuser a right to the confiscated property of those condemned for Sorcery. Wherever the Canon Law remains powerful, trials for Witchcraft multiply, and enrich...
Part Two. 18. Gauffridi : * "The Sorceress", by Jules Michelet, [1939], p. 168 18 "GAUFFRIDI" "1610" OF all the Religious Orders, that of the Ursulines seemed the calmest, the least liable to give way to irrational impulses. The Sisters were not idle, employing a portion of their time in the education of little girls...
Part Two. 16. The Basque Witches : * "The Sorceress", by Jules Michelet, [1939], p. 150 16 "THE BASQUE WITCHES" "1609" THIS high-handed execution of priests shows plainly enough that M. de Lancre was a man of an enterprising and independent spirit. The same is true of him in politics. In his book "Du Prince" ("Of the Prince") 1617...
Part Two. Notes And Elucidations : * "The Sorceress", by Jules Michelet, [1939], p. 312 NOTES AND ELUCIDATIONS Two only have been published in a complete form (see "Limburch"); the originals are at Toulouse, and extend from 1307 to 1326. Magi has taken extracts from two others ("Acad. de Toulouse", 1790, 4to, vol. iv., p. 19)...
Part One. 10. Charms And Love Potions : * "The Sorceress", by Jules Michelet, [1939], p. 89 10 "CHARMS AND LOVE POTIONS" DO not conclude too hastily from what I have said in the preceding chapter that my purpose is to whitewash, to clear of all blame whatever, the gloomy bride of the Evil One. She often effected good, but was equally...
Title Page : * "The Sorceress", by Jules Michelet, [1939], THE SORCERESS BY JULES MICHELET As Translated By Alfred Richard Allinson From The French (original Title "La Sorcire," Paris: E. Dentu [1862]). Originally Published As "Satanism And Witchcraft" New York: Citadel Press [1939] Also Reprinted Unaltered...
Part One. 5. Diabolical Possession : * "The Sorceress", by Jules Michelet, [1939], p. 41 5 "DIABOLICAL POSSESSION" BUT the terrible age is the age of gold. By this I mean the cruel epoch when gold first got the mastery. The date is 1300, in the reign of Philippe le Bel of France, a king at once of gold and iron, it would appear...
Part One. 4. Temptations : * "The Sorceress", by Jules Michelet, [1939], p. 32 4 "TEMPTATIONS" I HAVE omitted from the above picture the deep shadows of that cruel period, as these would have darkened it unduly. I refer especially to the uncertainty in which the rustic household habitually lived as to its lot, the suspense...
Untitled : * But the greatest revolution the Sorceress brought about, the chief movement of all in contradiction, in direct contradiction to the spirit of the Middle Ages, is what we might well call a rehabilitation of the belly and its digestive functions. They boldly proclaimed the doctrine that "nothing...
Part Two. Epilogue : * "The Sorceress", by Jules Michelet, [1939], p. 307 EPILOGUE A WOMAN of genius, in a very noble burst of enthusiasm, represents herself as seeing the two spirits, whose mutual struggle made the Middle Ages, coming at last to an understanding, drawing together, uniting. Examining one another...
Part Two. 13. The Sorceress In Her Decadences : * "The Sorceress", by Jules Michelet, [1939], p. 119 PART TWO 13 THE SORCERESS IN HER DECADENCE SATAN MULTIPLIED AND VULGARISED Now we have another type altogether,--a delicate Devil's plaything, the little Witch-wife, child of the Black Mass; she has quite superseded the grim Sorceress...
Part Two. 23. Charlotte Cadiere At The Convent : * "The Sorceress", by Jules Michelet, [1939], p. 260 13 "CHARLOTTE CADIRE AT THE CONVENT OF OLLIOULES" THE abbess of the convent of Ollioules was young for an abbess, being only thirty-eight. She was a woman of wit, intelligence, and great vivacity. Impetuous in her likes and dislikes, and easily...
Part One. 2. What Drove The Middle Ages To Despair : * "The Sorceress", by Jules Michelet, [1939], p. 11 2 "WHAT DROVE THE MIDDLE AGES TO DESPAIR" "BE YE like unto new-born babes" ("quasi modo geniti infantes"); be little children for innocence of heart, and peacefulness and forgetfulness of all causes of offence, calm and serene, under the h...
Part One. 12. Black Mass Continuedlove : * "The Sorceress", by Jules Michelet, [1939], p. 109 12 BLACK MASS CONTINUED LOVE AND DEATH SATAN DISAPPEARS THE people is enfranchised and emboldened. The poor serf, free for once, is king for a few hours space. But his time is short; already the night is passing, the stars verging to their...
Part One. 8. Prince Of Nature : * "The Sorceress", by Jules Michelet, [1939], p. 69 8 "PRINCE OF NATURE" THE winter is hard, long, and dismal in the gloomy north-west. Even after it seems well ended, it suffers relapses, like a pain that has been stifled, yet stings afresh and rages intermittently. One morning, and all Nature...
Part Two. 17. Satan Turns Ecclesiastic : * "The Sorceress", by Jules Michelet, [1939], p. 159 17 SATAN TURNS ECCLESIASTIC 1610 WHATEVER the appearance of fanaticism and satanic possession still displayed by the Sorceresses, it is quite plain both from Lancre's account and others of the seventeenth century that by this time the Witches...
Part Two. 22. Father Girard And Charlotte Cadiere : * "The Sorceress", by Jules Michelet, [1939], p. 229 22 "FATHER GIRARD AND CHARLOTTE CADIRE" THE Jesuits were much to be pitied. So favourably regarded at Versailles, "masters of all they surveyed" at Court, they had not the smallest prestige in the eyes of Heaven, not the most insignificant...
Part Two. 24. Trial Of Charlotte Cadiere : * "The Sorceress", by Jules Michelet, [1939], p. 283 24 "TRIAL OF CHARLOTTE CADIRE" "1730, 1731" WHAT this dreadful blow was for the Cadire family may be imagined. The sick girl's seizures became frequent and appalling, while, cruel aggravation, a regular epidemic of the same sort spread amongst...
Part Two. 19. The Nuns Of Loudunurbain Grandier : * "The Sorceress", by Jules Michelet, [1939], p. 189 19 THE NUNS OF LOUDUN URBAIN GRANDIER "1633", "1634" IN the "Mmoires dtat" composed by the renowned Father Joseph, known to us only in fragments, having doubtless been prudently suppressed as too instructive, the worthy Father explained how...
Part One. 7. King Of The Dead : * "The Sorceress", by Jules Michelet, [1939], p. 61 7 "KING OF THE DEAD" AT first she was not greatly touched by these promises of future greatness. A hermitage without God, torturing memories that assail her in the deep solitude, the losses she had borne and the insults she had endured, her...
Part One. 9. Satan The Healer : * "The Sorceress", by Jules Michelet, [1939], p. 77 9 "SATAN THE HEALER" THE silent, sombre drama of the Bride of Corinth is repeated literally and exactly from the thirteenth to the fifteenth centuries. In the gloom of night which still broods over the world, the two lovers, Man and Nature, meet...
Part Two. 14. Persecutions : * "The Sorceress", by Jules Michelet, [1939], p. 129 14 "PERSECUTIONS" THE Sorceresses took small pains to hide their proceedings. They rather boasted of their powers; and it is out of their own mouths Sprenger gathered a large proportion of the strange stories which adorn his Manual. The said...
Part Two. 21. Satan Triumphant In The Seventeenth : * "The Sorceress", by Jules Michelet, [1939], p. 221 21 "SATAN TRIUMPHANT IN THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY" THE "Fronde" was essentially Voltairean. The Voltairean spirit, as old as France really, though long kept in abeyance, breaks out in Politics, and very soon afterwards in Religion. The King, with...
Part One. 1. Death Of The Gods : * "The Sorceress", by Jules Michelet, [1939], p. 1 p. 2 p. 3 PART ONE 1 "DEATH OF THE GODS" THERE are authors who assure us that a little while before the final victory of Christianity a mysterious voice was heard along the shores of the gean Sea, proclaiming: "Great Pan is dead!" The old...
Part Two. Principal Authorities : * "The Sorceress", by Jules Michelet, [1939], PRINCIPAL AUTHORITIES GRAESSE, "Bibliotheca Magic", Leipzig, 1843. "Magie Antique", collection of texts by Soldan, A. Maury, etc. CALCAGNINI, Miscell., "Magia amatoria Antiqua", 1544. J. GRIMM, "Deutsche Mythologie". "Acta Sanctorum",--"Acta SS...
Part One. 3. The Little Demon Of The Hearth : * "The Sorceress", by Jules Michelet, [1939], p. 21 3 "THE LITTLE DEMON OF THE HEARTH AND HOME" THE early centuries of the Middle Ages, when the legends were in making, give all the impression of a dream. Among rustic populations, deeply submissive to the Church and of a gentle spirit (the legends...
Part Two. 20. The Nuns Of Louviers And Satanic : * "The Sorceress", by Jules Michelet, [1939], p. 207 20 "THE NUNS OF LOUVIERS AND SATANIC POSSESSION" "MADELEINE BAVENT" "1640-1647" HAD not Richelieu refused to order the inquiry demanded by Father Joseph against the thirty thousand "illuminati" among the Father Confessors, we should doubtless...
Introduction : * "The Sorceress", by Jules Michelet, [1939], p. viii INTRODUCTION SPRENGER said, before 1500: "We should speak of the "Heresy of the Sorceresses", not of the Sorcerers; the latter are of small account." So another writer under Louis XIII.: "For one Sorcerer, ten thousand Sorceresses." "Nature...
Part One. 11. Communion Of Revoltwitches : * "The Sorceress", by Jules Michelet, [1939], p. 98 11 COMMUNION OF REVOLT WITCHES SABBATHS THE BLACK MASS WITCHES "Sabbaths". We must use the plural, for it is obvious the word has denoted very different things at different epochs. Unfortunately, we possess detailed accounts of such scenes only...
Part One. 6. The Pact With Satan : * "The Sorceress", by Jules Michelet, [1939], p. 55 6 "THE PACT WITH SATAN" ONLY the victim lacked. All knew the most acceptable gift they could offer the chtelaine was to deliver the unhappy creature into her power. Right tender the gratitude she would have shown the man who had given her this...
