SATANISM AND WITCHCRAFT - Michelet, PERSECUTION DEMONOLOGY MAGICK SORCERY SATAN

SATANISM AND WITCHCRAFT: A STUDY IN MEDIEVAL SUPERSTITIONBook Details + Condition: The Citadel Press (New York). Hardcover edition from 1950s or ‘60s.(Date shows first edition from 1939, but dust jacket and boards differ from the first.) By Jules Michelet. 332 pages. 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 of life, which my learned predecessors darken by the very elaborat