The Loudun Possessions were a notorious witchcraft trial in Loudun, France in 1634. In Loudun, a convent of Ursuline nuns said they had been “visited” and possessed by demons. The Catholic Church investigated this alleged possession and concluded that a priest called Father Urbain Grandier was eventually convicted of the crime of sorcery and was burned at the stake. Join us as we give you a brief history of France in the late 1500s as well as a little insight into the psychology of possession!
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Sources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loudun_possessions
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ursulines
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enclosed_religious_orders
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boot_(torture)
https://thepsychologist.bps.org.uk/volume-27/edition-2/looking-back-possessions-loudun
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/1468-5922.12336
https://www.mtholyoke.edu/courses/rschwart/hist257/stephwhit/final/3possessions.html
