The Sorceress: Contents

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Introduction		viii
	PART ONE
1.	Death of the Gods	3
	Christianity believed the world to be on the point of death—The world of demons—The Bride of Corinth
2.	What Drove the Middle Ages to Despair	11
	The People makes itself Legends—But originality is prohibited—The People defends its lands—But is made a serf of
3.	The Little Demon of the Hearth and Home	21
	Promiscuity of the primitive villa—An independent hearth and home—The serf's wife—True to the old gods—Robin Goodfellow
4.	Temptations	32
	The Serf invokes the Spirit of Hidden Treasures—Feudal raids and cruel feudal customs—The goodwife's Brownie turns into a demon after all
5.	Diabolical Possession	41
	Gold gains the mastery in 1300—The peasant wife in alliance with the Demon of gold—Foul terrors of the Middle Ages—The Lady of the Village—Hatred and rivalry of the Lady of the Castle
6.	The Pact with Satan	55
	The serf's wife gives herself to the Devil—The Sorceress and the Blasted Hearth
7.	King of the Dead	61
	She calls back the spirits of loved ones dead—Conception of Satan softened and mollified
8.	Prince of Nature	69
	Rigours of the Mediæval Winter relax—The Sorceress submits to Oriental influences—Conceives Nature
9.	Satan the Healer	77
	Diseases of the Middle Ages—The Sorceress utilizes poisons for
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	their cure—The Solanaceæ (Herbs of Consolation)—Women for the first time cared for medically
10.	Charms and Love Potions	89
	Blue Beard and Griselda—The Castle a suppliant to the Sorceress—Her cunning ways
11.	Communion of Revolt—Witches’ Sabbaths—The Black Mass	98
	The old semi-Pagan Sabasia—The Black Mass, and its four Acts: Act I. The Introit, the Kiss of Devotion, the Banquet; Act II. The Offertory, Woman at once Altar and Sacrifice
12.	Black Mass Continued—Love and Death—Satan Disappears	109
	Act III. Incestuous love-making; Act IV. Death of Satan; the Sorceress flies to rejoin her lover in Hell
	PART TWO
13.	The Sorceress in Her Decadence—Satan Multiplied and Vulgarised	119
	Sorceresses and Sorcerers employed by the Great—The Châtelaine a Werewolf—Last of the love-potions
14.	Persecutions	129
	The Malleus Maleficarum—Satan master of the World
15.	A Hundred Years’ Toleration in France	143
	Spain begins when France leaves off—A reaction; the Lawyers show themselves as good at burning as the Priests
16.	The Basque Witches, 1609	150
	They direct their own Judges in the way they should go
17.	Satan Turns Ecclesiastic, 1610	159
	Diversions and Distractions of the Modern "Sabbath"
18.	Gauffridi, 1610	168
	Priests prosecuted for Sorcery by the Monks—Conventual jealousies
19.	The Nuns of Loudun—Urbain Grandier, 1633, 1634	189
	An eloquent and popular Priest; suspected of Sorcery—Morbid and extraordinary manifestations among the Nuns of Loudun
20.	The Nuns of Louviers And Satanic Possession—Madeleine Bavent, 1640-1647	207
	Illuminism; the Devil plays Quietist—Duel between the Fiend and the Physician
21.	Satan Triumphant in the Seventeenth Century	221
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22.	Father Girard and Charlotte Cadière	229
23.	Charlotte Cadière at the Convent of Ollioules	260
24.	Trial of Charlotte Cadière, 1730, 1731	283
Epilogue		307
	Satan and Jesus,—is a Reconciliation possible?—The Sorceress has perished, but the Fairy survives, and will survive—Imminence of a Religious Renovation
Notes and Elucidations		312
1.	The Inquisition	312
2.	Method of Procedure	315
3.	Satan as Physician, Love Philtres, etc.	318
4.	The Last Act of the Witches’ Sabbath	320
5.	Literature of Sorcery and Witchcraft	323
6.	Decadence, etc	325
7.	The spot where the present book was completed	327

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