{"collection":"Paganism & Neopaganism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/pag/sor/sor01.htm","path":"pag/sor/sor01.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/pag/sor/sor01.htm","text":"The Sorceress, by Jules Michelet, [1939]\n| | | PAGE | \n| Introduction | | viii | \n| | PART ONE | | \n| 1. | Death of the Gods | 3 | \n| | Christianity believed the world to be on the point of death\u2014The world of demons\u2014The Bride of Corinth | | \n| 2. | What Drove the Middle Ages to Despair | 11 | \n| | The People makes itself Legends\u2014But originality is prohibited\u2014The People defends its lands\u2014But is made a serf of | | \n| 3. | The Little Demon of the Hearth and Home | 21 | \n| | Promiscuity of the primitive villa\u2014An independent hearth and home\u2014The serf's wife\u2014True to the old gods\u2014Robin Goodfellow | | \n| 4. | Temptations | 32 | \n| | The Serf invokes the Spirit of Hidden Treasures\u2014Feudal raids and cruel feudal customs\u2014The goodwife's Brownie turns into a demon after all | | \n| 5. | Diabolical Possession | 41 | \n| | Gold gains the mastery in 1300\u2014The peasant wife in alliance with the Demon of gold\u2014Foul terrors of the Middle Ages\u2014The Lady of the Village\u2014Hatred and rivalry of the Lady of the Castle | | \n| 6. | The Pact with Satan | 55 | \n| | The serf's wife gives herself to the Devil\u2014The Sorceress and the Blasted Hearth | | \n| 7. | King of the Dead | 61 | \n| | She calls back the spirits of loved ones dead\u2014Conception of Satan softened and mollified | | \n| 8. | Prince of Nature | 69 | \n| | Rigours of the Medi\u00e6val Winter relax\u2014The Sorceress submits to Oriental influences\u2014Conceives Nature | | \n| 9. | Satan the Healer | 77 | \n| | Diseases of the Middle Ages\u2014The Sorceress utilizes poisons for | | \n| | p. vi | | \n| | their cure\u2014The Solanace\u00e6 (Herbs of Consolation)\u2014Women for the first time cared for medically | | \n| 10. | Charms and Love Potions | 89 | \n| | Blue Beard and Griselda\u2014The Castle a suppliant to the Sorceress\u2014Her cunning ways | | \n| 11. | Communion of Revolt\u2014Witches\u2019 Sabbaths\u2014The Black Mass | 98 | \n| | The old semi-Pagan Sabasia\u2014The 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 | | \n| 12. | Black Mass Continued\u2014Love and Death\u2014Satan Disappears | 109 | \n| | Act III. Incestuous love-making; Act IV. Death of Satan; the Sorceress flies to rejoin her lover in Hell | | \n| | PART TWO | | \n| 13. | The Sorceress in Her Decadence\u2014Satan Multiplied and Vulgarised | 119 | \n| | Sorceresses and Sorcerers employed by the Great\u2014The Ch\u00e2telaine a Werewolf\u2014Last of the love-potions | | \n| 14. | Persecutions | 129 | \n| | The Malleus Maleficarum\u2014Satan master of the World | | \n| 15. | A Hundred Years\u2019 Toleration in France | 143 | \n| | Spain begins when France leaves off\u2014A reaction; the Lawyers show themselves as good at burning as the Priests | | \n| 16. | The Basque Witches, 1609 | 150 | \n| | They direct their own Judges in the way they should go | | \n| 17. | Satan Turns Ecclesiastic, 1610 | 159 | \n| | Diversions and Distractions of the Modern \"Sabbath\" | | \n| 18. | Gauffridi, 1610 | 168 | \n| | Priests prosecuted for Sorcery by the Monks\u2014Conventual jealousies | | \n| 19. | The Nuns of Loudun\u2014Urbain Grandier, 1633, 1634 | 189 | \n| | An eloquent and popular Priest; suspected of Sorcery\u2014Morbid and extraordinary manifestations among the Nuns of Loudun | | \n| 20. | The Nuns of Louviers And Satanic Possession\u2014Madeleine Bavent, 1640-1647 | 207 | \n| | Illuminism; the Devil plays Quietist\u2014Duel between the Fiend and the Physician | | \n| 21. | Satan Triumphant in the Seventeenth Century | 221 | \n| | p. vii | | \n| 22. | Father Girard and Charlotte Cadi\u00e8re | 229 | \n| 23. | Charlotte Cadi\u00e8re at the Convent of Ollioules | 260 | \n| 24. | Trial of Charlotte Cadi\u00e8re, 1730, 1731 | 283 | \n| Epilogue | | 307 | \n| | Satan and Jesus,\u2014is a Reconciliation possible?\u2014The Sorceress has perished, but the Fairy survives, and will survive\u2014Imminence of a Religious Renovation | | \n| Notes and Elucidations | | 312 | \n| 1. | The Inquisition | 312 | \n| 2. | Method of Procedure | 315 | \n| 3. | Satan as Physician, Love Philtres, etc. | 318 | \n| 4. | The Last Act of the Witches\u2019 Sabbath | 320 | \n| 5. | Literature of Sorcery and Witchcraft | 323 | \n| 6. | Decadence, etc | 325 | \n| 7. | The spot where the present book was completed | 327 |","title":"The Sorceress: Contents","type":"page"}