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    UID:
    gbv_738700835
    Format: Online-Ressource (241 p)
    ISBN: 9780415619264
    Series Statement: Routledge Library Editions: Witchcraft
    Content: 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 ritual battles against witches and wizards, to protect their villages and harvests. If they won, the harvest would be good, if they lost, there would be famine. The inquisitors tried to fit them into their pre-existing images of the witches' sabbat. The result of this cultural clash which lasted over a century, was the slow metamorphosis of the benand
    Note: Description based upon print version of record , Cover; The Night Battles: Witchcraft & Agrarian Cults in the Sixteenth & Seventeenth Centuries; Copyright; Contents; Foreword by Eric Hobsbawm; Translators' note; Preface to the English edition; Preface to the Italian edition; I. The night battles; II. The processions of the dead; III. The benandanti between inquisitors and witches; IV. The benandanti at the sabbat; Appendix; Notes; Index of names;
    Additional Edition: ISBN 9780203819005
    Additional Edition: ISBN 9780415619264
    Additional Edition: Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe The Night Battles (RLE Witchcraft) : Witchcraft and Agrarian Cults in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries
    Language: English
    Keywords: Electronic books
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