title: Satanism and Witchcraft: The Classic Study of Medieval Superstition
author:  Jules Michelet 
description: Text: English (translation)<br /> Original Language: French
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  # CASES WORTH LOOKING AT
  
  
  ## Wilkie Collins
  
    
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  CASES WORTH LOOKING AT.--I. MEMOIRS OF AN ADOPTED SON.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ### I.--CIRCUMSTANCES WHICH PRECEDED HIS BIRTH.
  
  
  
  
  
    
  TOWARD the beginning of the eighteenth century there stood on a rock in the
  sea, near a fishing village on the coast of Brittany,
  
  
  a ruined tower with a very bad reputation. No mortal was known to have
  inhabited it within the memory of living man. The one
  
  
  tenant whom Tradition associated with the occupation of the place at a remote
  period had moved into it from the infernal
  
  
  regions nobody knew why--had lived in it nobody knew how long--and had quitted
  possession nobody knew when. Under
  
  
  such circumstances, nothing was more natural than that his unearthly
  Individual should give a name to this residence; for which
  
  
  reason, the building was thereafter known to all the neighborhood round as
  Satanstower.
  
  
  
  
  
    
  Early in the year seventeen hundred, t