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The Night Battles (RLE Witchcraft) : Witchcraft and Agrarian Cults in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries.
Based on research in the Inquisitorial archives, the book recounts the story of a peasant fertility cult centred on the benandanti. These men and women regarded themselves as professional anti-witches, who (in dream-like states) apparently fought ritual battles against witches and wizards, to protec...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés Italiano |
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Hoboken :
Taylor & Francis,
2012.
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| Colección: | Routledge Library Editions: Witchcraft.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Based on research in the Inquisitorial archives, the book recounts the story of a peasant fertility cult centred on the benandanti. These men and women regarded themselves as professional anti-witches, who (in dream-like states) apparently fought ritual battles against witches and wizards, to protect their villages and harvests. If they won, the harvest would be good, if they lost, there would be famine. The inquisitors tried to fit them into their pre-existing images of the witches' sabbat. The result of this cultural clash which lasted over a century, was the slow metamorphosis of the ben. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (241 pages). |
| ISBN: | 9780203819005 0203819004 1280684941 9781280684944 |