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Routledge Library Editions: Witchcraft: The Night Battles (RLE Witchcraft): Witchcraft and Agrarian Cults in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries (Volume 4)
Routledge Library Editions Witchcraft The Night Battles Witchcraft and Agrarian Cults in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries - RLE Witchcraft - Volume 4
Author: Carlo Ginzburg
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...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780415619264
ISBN-10: 0415619262
Publication Date: 6/24/2011
Pages: 240
Edition: 1
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Publisher: Routledge
Book Type: Hardcover
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