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La Sorcière

Jules Michelet

La Sorcière

La Sorcière

Jules Michelet

Archaeology & Anthropology, Gender & Sexuality Studies, History - Other, History - Religious, Philosophy & Ethics

Jules Michelet wrote this passionate defense of the persecuted in the 1860s, when Europe had nearly forgotten the horror of its own witch trials. He argues that witchcraft was never really about magic at all: it was about the Church's systematic erasure of the old world, the feminine, and the natural. The women burned as witches were often healers, midwives, and village outcasts scapegoated during plagues, famines, and social upheaval. Michelet depicts them not as cackling hags of folklore but as tragic figures defending ancient traditions of earth worship and herbal wisdom against an expanding patriarchal theology. His prose trembles with anger at the judges, the priests, and the frightened peasants who condemned innocent women to flames. This is history as indictment, written with the fury of a man who sees the witch trials as France's original sin, a violence against the body and spirit of womanhood that echoes forward through centuries.

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“Man hunts and fights. Woman contrives and dreams; she is the mother of fancy, of the gods.””

— Jules Michelet

“El domingo, después del oficio, había bastantes enfermos; pedían socorros y se les daba sólo palabras: -Has pecado y Dios te aflige. Da gracias, menos tendrás que sufrir en la otra vida. Resígnate, sufre, muere. La Iglesia tiene plegarias para sus difuntos.- Débiles, desmadejados, sin esperanza, ni ganas de vivir, seguían bien este consejo y dejaban escapar la vida.””

— Jules Michelet

“Especialmente la medicina era un culto satánico porque lucha contra la enfermedad que era un merecido castigo de Dios, porque al curar el cuerpo se obstaculizaba el camino del alma hacia el cielo.””

— Jules Michelet

“Porque la risa es una función esencial de nuestra naturaleza. ¿Cómo soportar la vida si no podemos reír, al menos en los intervalos entre nuestros dolores?””

— Jules Michelet

“Todos los pueblos primitivos empiezan de la misma manera, como lo vemos por los viajes. El hombre caza y combate. La mujer piensa e imagina, engendra a los sueños y a los dioses; ciertos días se vuelve vidente, roza el infinito del deseo y del sueño. Para contar mejor el tiempo, el observa el cielo, sin perder su interés por la tierra. Cuando joven y hermosa contempla las flores amorosas y las conoce muy bien. Más tarde, ya mujer, las utiliza para curar a aquellos que ama.¡Así de sencillo es el inicio de las religiones y de las ciencias! Más tarde todo se complicará; veremos aparecer a los especialistas: juglar, astrólogo o profeta, nigromante, sacerdote, médico. Pero en el principio, la mujer lo era todo.””

— Jules Michelet

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