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. While the trial...
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| Formato: | Libro |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Eastbourne, Brighton ; Chicago :
Sussex Academic Press
2021
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| Edición: | First published in hardcover 2019, reprinted with corrections in paperback 2021 |
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| Ver en Universidad de Navarra: | https://innopac.unav.es/record=b45076595*spi |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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
