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The Night Battles (RLE Witchcraft)

Witchcraft and Agrarian Cults in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries

By Carlo Ginzburg

Series: Routledge Library Editions: Witchcraft

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...

Published June 23rd 2011 by Routledge

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