Eve - The Witch of the Middle-Ages

A haunting and passionate history of the women condemned as witches and the world that feared them. With the voice of both historian and poet, Michelet transforms the witch from a figure of terror into one of tragedy and defiance—an emblem of womanhood persecuted by superstition, ignorance, and the iron hand of the Church.

In these pages are vivid portraits of sorcery, folklore, and peasant rites, alongside the brutal reality of inquisitions, torture, and execution. Michelet paints the witch not only as a victim, but as a keeper of hidden knowledge, a healer, and at times a rebel against oppressive authority. His work remains one of the most striking and sympathetic accounts of witchcraft ever written.

Part history, part lament, Eve: The Witch of the Middle Ages is both an indictment of persecution and a dark chronicle of the shadows that fall when fear turns to fire.

Complete edition of Jules Michelet’s classic study

Explores the lives, folklore, and persecution of witches in medieval Europe

Blends history, folklore, and social critique

Essential for readers of witch-lore, occult history, and feminist scholarship

To read these pages is to walk into the flames of the Middle Ages—where the witch stood as both healer and heretic, victim and symbol of forbidden power.