The Night Battles: Witchcraft and Agrarian Cults in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries by John Tedeschi, Carlo Ginzburg, Anne Tedeschi

The Night Battles: Witchcraft and Agrarian Cults in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries

John Tedeschi, Carlo Ginzburg, Anne Tedeschi

nonfiction history religion challenging informative slow-paced

232 pages | first published 1966

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Based on research in the Inquisitorial archives, the book recounts the story of a peasant fertility cult centred on the benandanti. These men and women regarded themselves as professional anti-witches, who (in dream-like states) apparently fought ...
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