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Ecstasies: Deciphering the Witches' Sabbath Book
For centuries witches on trial admitted to taking part in gruesome "sabbaths" where they cast spells, worshipped a bestial devil, enacted obscenely blasphemous rites and even devoured corpses. Many scholars believe that such confessions, often enacted under torture were just a reflection of their persecutors' fantasies. Certainly as Carlo Ginzburg shows, witch hunters adapted the stereotypes earlier used to descredit and persecute lepers and Jews.Read More
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- 0140173137
- 9780140173130
- Carlo Ginzburg
- 26 November 1992
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Paperback (Book)
- 368
- New edition
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