SATANISM AND WITCHCRAFT MEDIEVAL SUPERSTITION - Michelet, 1963 WITCH PERSECUTION

SATANISM AND WITCHCRAFT: A STUDY IN MEDIEVAL SUPERSTITION  Book Details + Condition: Vintage softcover edition from 1963. By Jules Michelet. The Citadel Press (New York). 332 pages. In very good condition: tight binding; light wear to edges and corners of covers;  foxing to inside front and back covers; interior is free of markings. According to Michelet, medieval witchcraft was an act of popular rebellion against the oppression of feudalism and the Roman Catholic Church. This rebellion took the form of a secret religion inspired by paganism and fairy beliefs, organized by a woman who became its leader. The participants in the secret religion met regularly at the witches' sabbath and the Black Mass. Michelet's account is openly sympathetic to the sufferings of peasants and women in the Middle Ages. According to Michelet, in a note added to the end of the book: “The object of my book was purely to give, not a history of Sorcery, but a simple and impressive formula of the Sorceress's way