Witchcraft, Sorcery, and Superstition (The Library of the Mystic Arts)

xx, 332 pp. "...a classic study of medieval hexes and spell-casing... one of the truly great sociological works of modern ties. Michelet draws vivid word pictures of the witch-hunts, the Black Masses, the reign of Satan, and the weird rites of the damned. Here is an age of unbridled pleasure and sensuality, of luxury beyond imagining, and squalor beyond endurance. It was a time when a girl might be accused of witchcraft merely if she was young and pretty and did not survive the test of immersion in water or boiling oil... a day of beatings, floggings, tortures, and summary decapitations." "Satanism and Witchcraft (originally La Sorcière) is a book by Jules Michelet on the history of witchcraft that was published originally in French in 1862."