Witchcraft and Magic in Europe
Subtitle: The Period of the Witch Trials (Witchcraft and Magic in Europe)
Contributors: Bengt Ankarloo (Editor); Stuart Clark (Editor)
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: December 2002
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9780812217872
Subjects: Alternative belief systems; History; New Age; Europe - General; Body, Mind & Spirit; History - General History; Europe; Witchcraft & Wicca; Modern - 17th Century; Body, Mind & Spirit-Witchcraft & Wicca; History / Europe / General; History / Renaissance; History-Modern - 17th Century; Witchcraft
First sentence: In the autumn of 1643, as the largest witch-hunt in French history spread across southern Languedoc, an aged widow named Jeanne de Biau, known to her neighbours as Nane de Mathieu, was arrested in the village of Montgaillard, in the foothills of the Pyrenees.