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Histoire horrible et espouuantable de ce qui s'est fait & passé au faux-bourg S. Marcel : à la mort d'vn miserable, qui a esté deuoré par plusieurs diables transformez en dogues, & ce pour auoir blasphemé le sainct nom de Dieu & battu sa mère.

1880 · [Arras] : [H. Schoutheer], [between 1880 and 1889?] · 2 pictures

A late nineteenth-century French chapbook reprinting a sixteenth-century tale of demons who devoured a blasphemer, published at Arras for popular readers of supernatural stories. The two pictures are small black-and-white woodcut-style vignettes: one shows a bearded wise man in a hat, the other a horned, hairy demon attacking a sprawling man beneath mountains, with a cartoon-like line quality a designer could borrow for dark folk-horror motifs.

Demonology · Occultism

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