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Judith Devlin, The Superstitious Mind: French Peasants and the Supernatural in the Nineteenth Century (New Haven, 1987), 4-6, notes that local nineteenth-century erudits surveying the incidence of magical beliefs among the populations of Herault (region of Montpellier) were surprised to discover that coastal communities, although more proximate to cosmopolitan networks of education and communication, displayed more extensive credence in folk magics than less accessible inland settlements. Judith Devlin, The Superstitious Mind: French Peasants and the Supernatural in the Nineteenth Century (New Haven, 1987), 4-6, notes that local nineteenth-century erudits surveying the incidence of magical beliefs among the populations of Herault (region of Montpellier) were surprised to discover that coastal communities, although more proximate to cosmopolitan networks of education and communication, displayed more extensive credence in folk magics than less accessible inland settlements. In the seventeenth century, this treatise was praised by the so-called liberins erudits for its salutary skepticism and damned by conservative Catholics as the "breviary of the libertines. |
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