Eve - the Witch of the Middle-Ages

Eve - the Witch of the Middle-Ages
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Download or read book Eve - the Witch of the Middle-Ages written by Jules Michelet and published by . This book was released on 2016-09-02 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eve - Witch she is by nature. It is a gift peculiar to woman and her temperament. By birth a fay, by the regular recurrence of her ecstasy she becomes a sibyl. By her love she grows into an enchantress. By her subtlety, by a roguishness often whimsical and beneficent, she becomes a Witch ; she works her spells; does at any rate lull our pains to rest and beguile them. The Sibyl foretold a fortune, the Witch accomplishes one. Here is the great, the true difference between them. The latter calls forth a destiny, conjures it, works it out. Unlike the Cassandra of old, who awaited mournfully the future she foresaw so well, Eve - the woman herself - creates the future. Even more than Circe, than Medea, does she bear in her hand the rod of natural miracle, with Nature herself a sister and helpmate. Already she wears the features of a modern Prometheus. With her industry begins, especially that queen-like industry which heals and restores mankind. As the Sibyl seemed to gaze upon the morning, so she, contrariwise, looks towards the west ; but it is just that gloomy west, which long before dawn as happens among the tops of the Alps gives forth a flush anticipant of day. The only physician of the people for a thousand years was the Witch. The emperors, kings, popes, and richer barons had indeed their doctors of Salerno, their Moors and Jews ; but the bulk of people in every state, the world as it might well be called, consulted none but the Saga, or wise-woman. When she could not cure them, she was insulted, was called a Witch.


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