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'''Angéle de la Barthe''' (c.1230 &ndash; 1275) was a prosperous woman of ], France who was tried for witchcraft and condemned to death by the ] in 1275.<ref name ="Carus">Carus</ref> <ref name="DPDB">Dinner Party database</ref> '''Angéle de la Barthe''' (c. 1230–1275) was allegedly a woman from ], France, who was tried for witchcraft and condemned to death by the ] in 1275.<ref name="Carus">Carus</ref><ref name="Kinsman1974">{{cite book|author=Robert S. Kinsman|title=The Darker Vision of the Renaissance: Beyond the Fields of Reason|url=https://archive.org/details/darkervisionof00lhis|url-access=registration|year=1974|publisher=University of California Press|isbn=978-0-520-02259-1|page=}}</ref>
She has been popularly portrayed as the first person to be put to death for heretical sorcery during the ].<ref name="North">Anthony North</ref> She has been popularly portrayed as the first person to be put to death for heretical sorcery during the ].<ref name="North">Anthony North</ref> Recent scholars have proven that her story, and trial, were fabricated by a 15th-century writer.<ref name=":2">{{cite book|author=Gareth Medway|title=Lure of the Sinister: The Unnatural History of Satanism|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=L1ETCgAAQBAJ&pg=PA309|date=1 April 2001|publisher=NYU Press|isbn=978-0-8147-5645-4|page=309}}</ref>


==Narrative==
She was accused by Inquisitor Hugo de Beniols of having sexual intercourse with the Devil and giving birth to a flesh eating monster with a wolf's head and a serpent's tail, whose sole food consisted of babies. She was found guilty and burned alive.<ref name ="Carus"/>
According to the account of her trial, Angéle de la Barthe was accused by Inquisitor Hugues de Beniols (the supreme chief of the Toulouse Inquisition)<ref name=":2" /> of having habitual sexual intercourse with the Devil and giving birth, seven years prior at age 53, to a monster with a wolf's head and a serpent's tail.<ref name=":1">Lea, Henry Charles. 1888. History of the inquisition of the middle ages Vol. 3. New York, NY: Harper & Brothers. .</ref> The monster's sole food consisted of babies, which were either slain by Angéle de la Barthe or dug up from their graves in remote churchyards.<ref name=":0">Summers, Montague. 1958. The geography of witchcraft. Evanston : University Books. .</ref> She confessed to having fed it babies for two years, before the monster ran away in the middle of the night.<ref name=":1" /> She also boasted of having had commerce with the Demon, and of being a constant attendant at the Sabbat.<ref name=":0" /> Hugues de la Beniols did not inquire if it was true that for two years a large number of babies had disappeared. Angéle de la Barth was found guilty and burned alive at Place Saint Stephen, in Toulouse.<ref name=":2" />


==Legacy==
Contemporary scholars have cast doubt on the truth of the Angèle de la Barthe story since there is no mention of her trial in the Toulouse records of the time. The fifteenth-century chronicle from which her story derives is considered spurious.<ref name="DPDB"/> Contemporary scholars have cast doubt on the truth of the Angèle de la Barthe story since there is no mention of her trial in the Toulouse records of the time. Additionally, in 1275, congress with demons was not yet considered a crime.<ref name=":2" /> Ultimately, the fifteenth-century chronicle from which her story derives is considered fictional.<ref name=":2" />


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==References== ==References==
* By Jeffrey Burton Russell, page 164, at Google books * By Jeffrey Burton Russell, page 164, at Google books
* - Part 2 by Paul Carus, Retrieved October 2007 * – Part 2 by Paul Carus, retrieved October 2007
* at the Dinner Party database , Brooklyn Museum, Retrieved October 2007 * at the Dinner Party database, Brooklyn Museum, retrieved October 2007
* Anthony North in Beyond the Blog, 18 July 2007. * Anthony North in Beyond the Blog, 18 July 2007.


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Angéle de la Barthe (c. 1230–1275) was allegedly a woman from Toulouse, France, who was tried for witchcraft and condemned to death by the Inquisition in 1275. She has been popularly portrayed as the first person to be put to death for heretical sorcery during the witch persecutions. Recent scholars have proven that her story, and trial, were fabricated by a 15th-century writer.

Narrative

According to the account of her trial, Angéle de la Barthe was accused by Inquisitor Hugues de Beniols (the supreme chief of the Toulouse Inquisition) of having habitual sexual intercourse with the Devil and giving birth, seven years prior at age 53, to a monster with a wolf's head and a serpent's tail. The monster's sole food consisted of babies, which were either slain by Angéle de la Barthe or dug up from their graves in remote churchyards. She confessed to having fed it babies for two years, before the monster ran away in the middle of the night. She also boasted of having had commerce with the Demon, and of being a constant attendant at the Sabbat. Hugues de la Beniols did not inquire if it was true that for two years a large number of babies had disappeared. Angéle de la Barth was found guilty and burned alive at Place Saint Stephen, in Toulouse.

Legacy

Contemporary scholars have cast doubt on the truth of the Angèle de la Barthe story since there is no mention of her trial in the Toulouse records of the time. Additionally, in 1275, congress with demons was not yet considered a crime. Ultimately, the fifteenth-century chronicle from which her story derives is considered fictional.

Notes

  1. Carus
  2. Robert S. Kinsman (1974). The Darker Vision of the Renaissance: Beyond the Fields of Reason. University of California Press. p. 35. ISBN 978-0-520-02259-1.
  3. Anthony North
  4. ^ Gareth Medway (1 April 2001). Lure of the Sinister: The Unnatural History of Satanism. NYU Press. p. 309. ISBN 978-0-8147-5645-4.
  5. ^ Lea, Henry Charles. 1888. History of the inquisition of the middle ages Vol. 3. New York, NY: Harper & Brothers. 384.
  6. ^ Summers, Montague. 1958. The geography of witchcraft. Evanston : University Books. 362.

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