Ecstasies: Deciphering the Witches' Sabbath by Raymond Rosenthal, Carlo Ginzburg

Ecstasies: Deciphering the Witches' Sabbath

Raymond Rosenthal, Carlo Ginzburg

368 pages first pub 1989 (editions)

nonfiction history religion challenging informative slow-paced
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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 ...

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