Abstract
Abstract The original of a surprising report, entitled «Procès des sorciers de Lyon 1742», is kept at the library of château de Grosbois-en-Montagne, covering a period of three years (1742-1745), the report describes strange proceedings to invoke angels. This manuscript lists countless cross-questionings. The procedure that started in 1742, led to the condemnation of twenty-nine individuals for magic practices in 1745. According to paradigms of the 17th and 18th centuries, those sentenced persons were considered as magicians and not as wizards, because the magician was defined by three criteria: it was a cultured person, able to trap and dominate spirits, and it was a man. The persons charged were painfully sentenced, even for that period, due to the backward mentality of some magistrates. According to them, the same crimes (magic and/or witchcraft) had to lead the same punishment: to be burnt at the stake. The presentation of this trial renews the general concepts on magic and magicians in the 17th and 18th centuries.
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