The Catholic Salem: How the Devil Destroyed a Saint’s Parish (Mattaincourt, 1627–31)
A virulent witch panic driven by many diabolically possessed parishioners of Mattaincourt in Lorraine caused about fifty deaths for witchcraft between 1627 and 1631. Sixty years before Salem, this episode constitutes the largest such tragedy yet found in Catholic Europe, where episodes of collective...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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The Catholic University of America Press
2012
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The catholic historical review
Year: 2012, Volume: 98, Issue: 4, Pages: 679-702 |
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Demonic Possession
B witchcraft executions B Lorraine B St. Pierre Fourier |
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