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...

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Main Author: Ginzburg, Carlo
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Italian
Published: Hoboken : Taylor & Francis, 2012
Series:Routledge Library Editions: Witchcraft.
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Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central