Ecstasies: Deciphering the Witches' SabbathWeaving 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 across Europe and in England for thousands of years. |
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... Christian faith , desecrate the sacrament and offer homage to the devil , who was present in human or ( most often ) animal or semi - animal form . There would follow banquets , dancing , sexual orgies . Before returning home the female ...
... Christian faith , desecrate the sacrament and offer homage to the devil , who was present in human or ( most often ) animal or semi - animal form . There would follow banquets , dancing , sexual orgies . Before returning home the female ...
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... Christian fertility religion diffused throughout Europe . Macfarlane objected : ( 1 ) that Murray had mistaken the confessions of the defendants in the witchcraft trials for reports of actual events , rather than beliefs ; ( 2 ) that ...
... Christian fertility religion diffused throughout Europe . Macfarlane objected : ( 1 ) that Murray had mistaken the confessions of the defendants in the witchcraft trials for reports of actual events , rather than beliefs ; ( 2 ) that ...
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... Christians , the medieval heretics , they finally focused around female and male witches . - In my opinion the sequence that led to the crystallization of the image of the Sabbath elaborated by judges and inquisitors is different . As I ...
... Christians , the medieval heretics , they finally focused around female and male witches . - In my opinion the sequence that led to the crystallization of the image of the Sabbath elaborated by judges and inquisitors is different . As I ...
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... Christian fertility cult , which possibly dated back to pre - history and which has survived in Europe until the modern age . Although immediately lambasted by several reviewers for its lack of rigour and its incredibility , The Witch ...
... Christian fertility cult , which possibly dated back to pre - history and which has survived in Europe until the modern age . Although immediately lambasted by several reviewers for its lack of rigour and its incredibility , The Witch ...
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... Christian fertility cult that Murray identified , without probing it more deeply , in descriptions of the Sabbath - suggests a different and more complex interpretation.35 - The ' core of truth ' in Murray's thesis is to be found here ...
... Christian fertility cult that Murray identified , without probing it more deeply , in descriptions of the Sabbath - suggests a different and more complex interpretation.35 - The ' core of truth ' in Murray's thesis is to be found here ...
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