1st Edition
The Night Battles (RLE Witchcraft) Witchcraft and Agrarian Cults in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries
By Carlo Ginzburg
Copyright 1983
240 Pages
by
Routledge
234 Pages
by
Routledge
240 Pages
by
Routledge
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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... Read more
1. The Night Battles 2. The Processions of the Dead 3. The Benandanti between Inquisitors and Witches 4. The Benandanti at the Sabbat. Appendix. Notes. Index of Names.
Biography
Carlo Ginzburg
