HISTORIAN JULES MICHELET understood the attraction of the Prince of Darkness when he wrote the aforementioned sympathetic witch book, La Sorcière, in 1862. He felt that you couldn’t blame women of the Middle Ages for turning to Satanism. According to him, they were constantly being abused, neglected, and told they were unclean, so why not seek out an empowering alternative? In his words: “The Devil only, women’s ally of old and her confidant in the Garden, and the Witch, the perverse creature who does everything backwards and upside down, in direct contradiction to the world of religion, ever
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