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Witchcraft: the imaginary crime with 100,000 victims

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  • 16 March 2019
  • Michel Porret
    • Lettres, UNIGE
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Between the 15th and 17th centuries, the repression of witchcraft in the Pays de Vaud was one of the most ferocious in Europe. 2,000 people died at the stake, two-thirds of them women. Who were they, these so-called companions of the Devil?

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