Bibliography of Canadian Sources

(Lucie DuFresne 2002)

PART 1 — PAGANISM / WICCA / GODDESS SPIRITUALITY
PART 2 — FOLKLORIC WITCHCRAFT

Notes: I have copies of most of the French material. For the English: either Shelley Rabinovitch, Sian Reid or I (Lucie DuFresne) have a copy. Furthermore, the National Library of Canada holds copies of anything published in Canada. This includes all Doctoral Thesis and many Masters Thesis. The criteria of choice for the included items was that they were works on Canadian paganism/Wicca/goddess spirituality or they were produced by Canadians. This list is NOT yet complete. Additions will be posted as they are found.

PART 2 — FOLKLORIC WITCHCRAFT

Aubin, Henri (1983): L'Ile d'Orléans, pays des sorciers. St. Pierre, I.O.: [ Montmorency: H. Aubin].

Des Ruisseaux, Pierre (1976): Magie et sorcellerie populaires au Québec. Montréal: Tryptique.

DuFresne, Lucie (1991, 1992): "Of Sorcerers and Werewolves — A Look at Traditional Québécois Magic." in The Wiccan — Journal of the Pagan Federation. London, England. Part 1 — Yule 1991, Part 2 — Imbolc 1992.

Gaboury, Eve (1988): "Pierre la Fêve et la sorcière: ou comment sortir du cercle infernal de la défaite." MA research paper, U. of Ottawa. unpublished.

Guilbaut, Nicole: (1995): Il était une fois la Corriveau: anthologie. Montréal: Nuit blanche Éditeur.

Hajdukowski-Ahmed, Maroussia (1984): "La sorcière dans le texte (québécois) au féminin." in The French Review. Journal of the American Association of Teachers of French. Chapel Hell, N.C., 1984, Dec. 58(2). p.260-268.

Le Bel, Andrée (c.1981): La Corriveau. Montréal: Libre Expression.

Mainville, Alain (1980): Analyse et interprétation de certaines manifestations de la sorcellerie dans le folklore québécois. Thesis (?), UQAM (Université du Québec à Montréal).

Séguin, Robert-Lionel (1961): La sorcellerie au Canada français du XVIIe au XIXe siècle. Montréal: Librairie Ducharme. Republished as:

Séguin, Robert-Lionel (1971/1978) La sorcellerie au Québec du XVIIe au XIXe siècle. Montréal: Leméac/Payot.

NOTE: Marie Joséphine Corriveau dite "La Corriveau" (1733-1763) is the most famous of the accused and tried witches of Québec. In part, her importance lies in her being the first person tried and put to death by the British military courts after the fall of New France to the British. Hers is the body left to rot in a metal cage hung at the crossroads. The same metal cage that Ripleys' NY museum exhibited for so many years. Its current location is unknown.

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