Invoking the Akelarre: Voices of the Accused in the Basque Witch-craze, 1609–1614 by Emma Wilby

Invoking the Akelarre: Voices of the Accused in the Basque Witch-craze, 1609–1614

Emma Wilby

480 pages • first pub 2019 (editions)

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With their dramatic descriptions of black masses and cannibalistic feasts, the records generated by the Basque witch-craze of 1609–14 provide us with arguably the most demonologically-stereotypical accounts of the witches’ sabbath—or akelarre—to h...

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