Pierre de Rosteguy de Lancre or Pierre de l'Ancre, Lord of De Lancre (1553–1631), was the French judge of Bordeaux who conducted the massive Labourd witch-hunt...

would seem to correspond with modern usage. The following year (1612), Pierre de Lancre seems to use the term more frequently than anyone before. In 1668,...

akelarre of Zugarramurdi. The previous year, in 1609, French judge Pierre de Lancre had initiated a massive process in Labourd, focusing mainly on Basque...

This method was first described in the 17th century by French writer Pierre de Lancre. Methods of divination "Aspidomancy". YourDictionary. Retrieved 23...

councilor Pierre de Lancre. He burned around 200 women, children and priests by forcing them to confess through torture. Pierre de Lancre was responsible...

territory. It was influenced by similar persecutions conducted by Pierre de Lancre in the bordering Labourd, French Basque Country. Although the number...

Sabbath. Her account of the Sabbath was contained in the narrative of Pierre de Lancre, a royal councillor of Bordeaux, who made an exhaustive study of witchcraft...

French Basque Country, in 1609. The investigation was managed by Pierre de Lancre on the order of King Henry IV of France and III of Navarre. It resulted...

them had come from Brittany, Brabant and Vivarais. The demonologist Pierre de Lancre (1553–1631) boasted that even dead French monarchs could heal; it was...

Country. Some beliefs about this mythological creature have endured. Pierre de Lancre, an inquisitor who went looking for women from Labourd and Lower Navarre...