The Salazar documents : : Insquisitor Alonso de Salazar Frias and others on the Basque witch persecution / / edited by Gustav Henningsen.
Early in the 17th century the Western Pyrenees were riven by one of the greatest witch panics in history. The mountain villages were in uproar when villagers' children reported how they had been abducted during the night and taken to a witches' sabbath. The abducters denounced by the "...
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| Superior document: | Cultures, beliefs, and traditions, v. 21 |
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| Year of Publication: | 2004 |
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Language: | English Spanish |
| Series: | Cultures, beliefs, and traditions ;
v. 21. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (532 p.) |
| Notes: | Description based upon print version of record. |
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| Summary: | Early in the 17th century the Western Pyrenees were riven by one of the greatest witch panics in history. The mountain villages were in uproar when villagers' children reported how they had been abducted during the night and taken to a witches' sabbath. The abducters denounced by the "child-witches" were subjected to violence and illegal torture to wrest confessions from them. A series of eye-witness reports written by a Jesuit, a Bishop, and a Spanish Inquisitor show a surprising lack of interest in the demonological theories of their time, and analyse the phenomenon from its psychological, sociological and anthropological angles. Part One discusses the anatomy of this collective nightmare or dream-epidemic, and provides an introduction to a bilingual edition of the reports in Part Two. |
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| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [496]-497) and index. |
| ISBN: | 1280859369 9786610859368 142942687X 9047404661 1433704277 |
| ISSN: | 1382-5364 ; |
| Hierarchical level: | Monograph |
| Statement of Responsibility: | edited by Gustav Henningsen. |