Biscar, Jeanette
Biscar, Jeanette
An alleged sorceress of the Basque district of Labourd in France, who was said to have been transported to the witches' Sabbat by the Devil in the form of a goat. As punishment she was suspended in midair head downward. She was one of thousands of supposed witches persecuted through the efforts of witch-hunter Pierre de Lancre in the early seventeenth century.
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