The Sorceress

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Excerpt from The Sorceress: A Complete Translation From the French of Jules MicheletSprenger said, before 1500: "We should speak of the Heresy of the Sorceresses, not of the Sorcerers, the latter are of small account." So another writer under Louis XIII.: "For one Sorcerer, ten thousand Sorceresses."Nature makes them Sorceresses, " - the genius peculiar to woman and her temperament. She is born a creature of Enchantment. In virtue of regularly recurring periods of exaltation, she is a Sibyl, in virtue of love, a Magician. By the fineness of her intuitions, the cunning of her wiles - often fantastic, often beneficent - she is a Witch, and casts spells, at least and lowest lulls pain to sleep and softens the blow of calamity.All primitive peoples start alike, this we see again and again in the accounts given by travellers. Man hunts and fights.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.