Editing Satanism (section)

====Affair of the Poisons====
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In a scandal starting with the poisoning of three people, prominent members of the French aristocracy, including members of the king's inner circle, were implicated and sentenced on charges of poisoning and witchcraft. Between 1677 and 1682, during the reign of King [[Louis XIV]], 36 people were executed in Satanic panic known to history as the [[Affair of the Poisons]].<ref name=JPLS2023:chpt.2-Poisons/> At least  some of the accusers were implicated others under torture and in hopes of saving their lives. These highly unreliable reports include what "may be the first report of a satanic mass using a woman as an altar".<ref name=JPLS2023:chpt.2-Poisons>[[#JPLS2023|Laycock, ''Satanism'', 1981]]: Chapter 2, Imagining the Black Mass. The Affair of the Poisons</ref>