Jean Duprat, Inquisitor of Carcassonne

Jean Duprat, Inquisitor of Carcassonne, was instrumental in a witch trial of the mountains of Alaric. The 1435 examination was concerned with eight people and the leader of their band, a woman by the name of Mabille de Marnac.

Pienille Roland, Matheline Figuier, Armande Robert, and Paul Viguirer boasted about the Sabbat they had attended in the mountains near Alaric. Andre Ciceron, a Black Mountains shepherd, claimed to have parodied the mass in order to cast a spell. Catala and Paul Rodier, two other shepherds, were accused by Duprat of being both magicians and poisoners. "They had summoned the Devil by night, at a cross-roads, by sacrificing a black hen, in order to promote strife in the district" (Baroja 89).

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