Ecstasies: Deciphering the Witches’ Sabbath
Carlo Ginzburg
368 pages, Paperback
ISBN: 0226296938
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Language: English
Publish: 1087196400000
AnthropologyFolkloreHistoryMagicMedievalMythologyNonfictionOccultReligionWitchcraft
Weaving early accounts of witchcraft—trial records, ecclesiastical tracts, folklore, and popular iconography—into new and startling patterns, Carlo Ginzburg presents in Ecstasies compelling evidence of a hidden shamanistic culture that flourished across Europe and in England for thousands of years.