Jasmin's Witch

New York: George Braziller, 1987 Book. As New. Hardcover. First American Edition. Large 8vo. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. 222 pp, acknowledgments, list of b&w plates and maps, Jasmin, hairdresser-poet; Part I. Three Gascon Witches: Francouneto, Gerarde Mimale, Marie de Sansarric; Part II. Fracouneto; prose translation of the French version of 1842; Part III. Francouneto restored to her century; postscript, sources and bibliography, references, index. Translated by Brian Pearce. First American Edition, 1987. "This book traces account of witchcraft as it appears in village quarrels in the south of France over the course of several centuries. The author's starting point is the narrative poem Francouneto, written by the regional poet Jacques Jasmmin and published between 1840 and 1842. It tells the story of a beautiful dancerr and singer denounced as a witch by a sorcerer-magician. Ladurie demonstrates beyond question that Francouneto was a real person who lived at the time of the last witchcraft trials in Gascony. In telling her story, he reveals not only the nature of magic, witchcraft, and sorcery in popular tradition, but also his own extraordinary gifts as social histoiran and storyteller." Not Price Clipped. Pristine, no wear. Clean, tight and strong binding with clean dust jacket and no highlighting or marginalia. Off-white cloth with magenta lettering to front board and spine..