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Loudun possessions
The
Loudun possessions
was a notorious
witchcraft
trial in
Loudun
,
France
in 1634. A
convent
of
Ursuline
nuns
said they had been visited and
possessed by demons
. Following an investigation by the
Catholic Church
, a local priest named Father
Urbain Grandier
was accused of summoning the evil spirits. He was eventually convicted of the crimes of
sorcery
and
burned at the stake
.
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