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The night battles : witchcraft and agrarian cults in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries /

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Based on research in the Inquisitorial archives, the book recounts the story of a peasant fertility cult centered 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 prote...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Ginzburg, Carlo (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2013.
Edition:Johns Hopkins paperback edition.
Subjects:
Friuli (Italy) > Religious life and customs.
Witchcraft > Italy > Friuli.
Table of Contents:
  • The night battles
  • The processions of the dead
  • The benandanti between inquisitors and witches
  • The benandanti at the sabbat.