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Bewitched cars & mail-order charms: witchcraft in modern France

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Witchcraft Trials - Are They Really Devious?

At least 50 of the cases you've uncovered are murder trials that revolved around witchcraft. They're often very sad cases to read, and they're very devisive in the communities where they take place. But there is one example when a six-year-old girl was called as a witness against her mother who had been murdered. And then she became the last woman guillotined in France until capital punishment was reintroduced.

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