The Night Battles: Witchcraft and Agrarian Cults in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries
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- Synopsis
- The English translation of I Benandanti (1966). Some time in the late sixteenth century the attention of a perplexed Church was drawn to the prevalence of a curious practice in the region of the Friuli, where German, Italian and Slav customs meet. The 'good walkers' fell into a trance or deep sleep on certain nights of the year while their souls left their bodies so that they could do battle, armed with stalks of fennel, against analogous companies of male witches for the fate of the season's crops.
- Copyright:
- 1992
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Excellent
- Book Size:
- 209 Pages
- ISBN-13:
- 9780801843860
- Publisher:
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Date of Addition:
- 03/10/10
- Copyrighted By:
- Routledge & Kegan Paul
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- History, Nonfiction, Religion and Spirituality
- Submitted By:
- Texas A&M University
- Proofread By:
- Texas A&M University
- Usage Restrictions:
- This is a copyrighted book.
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