Invoking the Akelarre : voices of the accused in the Basque witch-craze, 1609-1614 /

"With their dramatic descriptions of black masses and cannibalistic feasts, the records generated by the Basque witch-craze of 1609-14 provide us with arguably the most demonologically-stereotypical accounts of the witches' sabbath - or akelarre - to have emerged from early modern Europe....

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Wilby, Emma (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Brighton ; Chicago : Sussex Academic Press, [2019]
Subjects:
1600-1699
Witchcraft > Spain > País Vasco > History > 17th century.
Sabbat > Spain > País Vasco > History > 17th century.
Witch hunting > Spain > País Vasco > History > 17th century.
Inquisition > Spain > País Vasco.
Sorcellerie > Espagne > Pays basque espagnol > Histoire > 17e siècle.
Sabbat (Occultisme) > Espagne > Pays basque espagnol > Histoire > 17e siècle.
Chasse aux sorcières > Espagne > Pays basque espagnol > Histoire > 17e siècle.
Inquisition > Espagne > Pays basque espagnol.
Inquisition
Sabbat
Witch hunting
Witchcraft
Spain > País Vasco
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • The Basque world
  • The gleeful executioners
  • The witch's voice
  • The black winds
  • The bloodletting bruja
  • "Powders and poisons"
  • "Man's grease"
  • Hidden healers
  • Familiar demons
  • Milking the toad
  • Jeannette's imagination
  • The Akelarre
  • Dancing with the devil
  • Dark banquets
  • "There is no sin in it"
  • "Be nothing to God"
  • Theophilus and the stage
  • The first altar of hell
  • Mass and misrule
  • The malevolent mass
  • De Lancre's imagination
  • The cultic template.

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