Ecstasies: Deciphering the Witches' Sabbath Book + PRICE WATCH * Amazon pricing is not included in price watch

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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