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Loudun possessions. The Loudun possessions, also known as the Loudun possessed affair (French: affaire des possédées de Loudun), was a notorious witchcraft trial that took place in Loudun, Kingdom of France, in 1634. A convent of Ursuline nuns said they had been visited and possessed by demons.
Aug 6, 2021 · In 1632, 18 young nuns at the Ursulines convent in Loudun, France, began showing signs of demonic possession. What began as ghostly visions in the middle of the night would become one of the most contentious and disturbing sensations of the 17th century. The saga dragged on for six years and led to a local priest, Urbain Grandier, being burned ...
Sep 2, 2023 · The Loudun Affair: Bizarre Witch Trials in France. Discover how a whole convent of French nuns ended up possessed, what happened at the witch trial that followed, and the terrible aftermath. In the year 1632, a bout of the black plague broke out in the French town of Loudun, eventually killing around 3,700 of the 14,000 residents.
Feb 18, 2014 · Keeping in mind this supernatural symmetry between the infernal and the celestial, a feminist reading of the possessions at Loudun might chart the process by which the non-rational experiences of the Ursuline nuns were rendered demoniacal. Jeanne des Anges, the main demoniac at Loudun, published an autobiographical account in 1644.
The Witch Trials – Loudun Witch Trials (France, 1634) The 1634 case of demonic possession in Loudun, France, is arguably the most famous case of multiple or mass possession in history. This case involved the Ursuline nuns of Loudun who were allegedly inflicted by Father Urbain Grandier, who was convicted of the crime of sorcery, evil spells ...
Jeanne des Anges, also known as Jeanne de Belcier (2 February 1602 – 29 January 1665), was a French Ursuline nun in Loudun, France.She became mother superior of the convent at a young age, but is chiefly remembered as a central figure in the case of the possessed of Loudun in 1632, which led, after witch trials, to the burning at the stake of the priest Urbain Grandier two years later.
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Possession at Loudun, 1632-34. Urbain Grandier, SJ, in 1627, before the crisis. One of the most celebrated of all cases of bewitchment and/or possession occurred in the French town of Loudun during the mid-1630s. The most spectacular of a series of such cases, it involved a whole convent of Ursuline nuns, allegedly possessed as a result of the ...
