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A tale of demonic possession and exorcism in 17th-century New France: Can we know what really happened?

This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article here. During the autumn of 1660, colonists in and around Québec started to report some very strange occurrences. In the sky they saw a man enveloped in flame and a canoe of fire. In the air they heard lamentable…