The Witchblood Archives — A journey through France’s forgott

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Witchblood Archives

✨ Witchblood Archives ✨ A blog by a real French witch digging up the bones of her ancestors.

Jeanne de Brigue burned in Paris in 1391 for reading water and tying cursed cords. Catherine La Voisin sold black masses to Versailles while cradling powdered bones.

You think you know the French Revolution? It wasn’t about freedom.

It was a massacre. Of witches. Of bloodlines. Of fae and wolves hiding in silk.

🖤 I’m writing a dark urban fantasy rooted in real cursed history. 🕯️ I live in Montmartre. I walk where they died.

🔮 My blog is a grimoire of the forgotten. → Lore, maps, rituals, forbidden names, bloodlines, moodboards, and more.

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Everything is free. For now. But curses tend to linger.

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Witchblood Archives #02: Catherine “La Voisin”

She prayed in Latin, poisoned in silence, and burned for the secrets of the Sun King’s court.

Paris, 1670s. The air reeks of incense and decay.

Catherine Monvoisin, known simply as La Voisin, is not just a fortune-teller. She is priestess, poisoner, midwife to the dead. From her home near Notre-Dame, she sells philtres, abortions, curses—and even arranges Black Masses for the noblewomen of Versailles.

She speaks with priests. She sells secrets. She is the queen of the underground, and her clients wear lace and diamonds.

When the Affair of the Poisons explodes—hundreds arrested, nobles whispering of demons, infants buried under floorboards—it is her name that echoes through the Bastille.

She is arrested in 1679, tortured, and burned alive in 1680. Her ashes scatter. Her client list vanishes. But some say her whispers still travel through the royal bloodlines…

And in Blood of Montmartre, her shadow returns to Paris.

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Witchblood Archives #01: Jeanne de Brigue

She read the future in water. Paris called her a witch. But she was only the first.

Paris, 1390. A woman named Jeanne de Brigue is dragged before a judge, accused of sorcery. Her crime? She healed. She whispered words to water. She knew things she shouldn’t.

They said she had inherited “the gift” from her mother and grandmother. She could see missing objects. She could soothe the sick. She spoke of spirits. She read the currents of fate in bowls of clear springwater.

The people called her la divineresse. The church called her heretic. The court called her witch.

She was the first woman officially tried for sorcery in Paris. Not the last.

She was tortured, judged, and sentenced to life in prison—not burned, not drowned, but buried alive in stone. Hidden. Forgotten.

But blood remembers. And in Blood of Montmartre, her legacy rises again.

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