Invoking the Akelarre : voices of the accused in the Basque witch-craze, 1609-1614

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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Wilby, Emma, autor (autor)
Formato: Libro
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Eastbourne, Brighton ; Chicago : Sussex Academic Press 2021
Edición:First published in hardcover 2019, reprinted with corrections in paperback 2021
Materias:
Inquisición > País Vasco > s. XVII
Brujería > País Vasco > Historia > s. XVII.
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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

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