Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender Index


  • Record Number: 30616
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  • Contributor(s): P.G. Maxwell-Stuart, trans.
  • Title: Magic with toads and a wax image, 1390-1391
  • Source: Witch Beliefs and Witch Trials in the Middle Ages: Documents and Readings  Edited by P.G. Maxwell-Stuart.  Continuum International Publishing Group, 2011.  Pages 178 - 180.
  • Description: [This is the first recorded witch trial held at Le Châtelet in Paris. There were two accused women, Jeanne de Brigue alias 'La Cordière' and 'Macette' unhappily married to Hennequin de Ruilly. Jeanne appears to have specialized in recovering lost or stolen items and her talents had actually been used about six years before her arrest and trial by the priest of a neighboring village. She also cured the sick and made healthy people ill by means of magic. Her interrogations began on 29 October 1390, and on 9 February the following year she was found guilty and sentenced to be burned. Macette, her friend and colleague in magic, was questioned on 4 August 1391 and confessed everything immediately. She was condemned on 5 August. Both women were executed on 19 August.]
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  • Subject (See Also): Waiting to be Indexed
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  • Year of Publication: 2011.
  • Language: English
  • ISSN/ISBN: 9781441109804