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Book Review: Mairi Cowan, an associate professor in the Department of Historical Studies at the University of Toronto Mississauga, has scoured religious and civil records to track the life of Barbe Hallay.

A demonic possession, a do-it-yourself exorcism, and the execution of an accused witch — welcome to daily life in Quebec City, circa 1660. Historian Mairi Cowan shares the story of Canada’s earliest reported ‘demon possession caused by witchcraft’ case.

When things went wrong in seventeenth-century Quebec, authorities were not above blaming black magic.

Way back in the 1600s, the area then known as New France, now Quebec, Canada, was a rugged, rough, and forbidding place to

Way back in the 1600s, the area then known as New France, now Quebec, Canada, was a rugged, rough, and forbidding place to