The Sorceress, (Or, Satanism and Witchcraft) (French: La Sorci re), by French historian Jules Michelet, was originally published in French in 1862, and English in 1939, as translated by Alfred Richard Allinson.
Seeing the witch cult as a primal rebellion against conven.
Michelet interprets the source material quite literally, and presents a proto-Marxist explanation for the trials.
The work is one of the first attempts to create a sociological explanation of the phenomenon of the witch trials.
The Sorceress, (Or, Satanism and Witchcraft) (French: La Sorci re), by French historian Jules Michelet, was originally published in French in 1862, and English in 1939, as translated by Alfred Richard Allinson