Witchcraft, Demonology, and Confession in Early Modern France

Denounced by neighbors and scrutinized by demonologists, the early modern French witch also confessed, self-identified as a witch and as the author of horrific deeds. What led her to this point? Despair, solitude, perhaps even physical pain, but most decisively, demonology''s two-pronged prosecutorial and truth-seeking confessional apparatus. This book examines the systematic and well-oiled machin...