Witch

This is a book about how the image of the “witch” is born and how, through fear, exile and punishment, women, their knowledge and bodies are spoken of.

At the center of the study is a generalized image: a folk healer, “the devil’s bride”, a woman who does not obey the rules. Michelet sees her not as a threat, but as a response to the cruelty of the Inquisition – a figure of resistance, personifying the repressed memory of the people.

This text combines historical background with the author’s poetic observation and turns into a sensitive story of an experience that has long been given no words. His book reads like a belated hymn to women, repressed experience and the dark side of European culture.