The Sorceress: Page Index

Contents

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Introduction

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1. Death of the Gods

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2. What Drove the Middle Ages to Despair

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3. The Little Demon of the Hearth and Home

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4. Temptations

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5. Diabolical Possession

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6. The Pact With Satan

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7. King of the Dead

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8. Prince of Nature

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9. Satan the Healer

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10. Charms and Love Potions

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11. Communion of Revolt—Witches’ Sabbaths—The Black Mass

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12. Black Mass Continued—Love and Death—Satan Disappears

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13. The Sorceress in Her Decadence—Satan Multiplied and Vulgarised

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14. Persecutions

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15. A Hundred Years’ Toleration in France

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16. The Basque Witches (1609)

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17. Satan Turns Ecclesiastic (1610)

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18. Gauffridi (1610)

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19. The Nuns of Loudun—Urbain Grandier (1633, 1634)

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20. The Nuns Of Louviers and Satanic Possession—Madeleine Bavent (1640-1647)

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21. Satan Triumphant in the Seventeenth Century

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22. Father Girard and Charlotte Cadière

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23. Charlotte Cadière at the Convent of Ollioules

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24. Trial of Charlotte Cadière (1730, 1731)

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Epilogue

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Notes and Elucidations

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Principal Authorities

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