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

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



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English | ISBN: 1845199693 | 2019 | 480 pages | EPUB | 9 MB

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 nologically-stereotypical accounts of the witches’ sabbath—or akelarre—to have emerged from early modern Europe. While the trials have attracted scholarly attention, the most substantial monograph on the subject was written nearly forty years ago and most works have focused on the ways in which interrogators shaped the pattern of prosecutions and the testimonies of defendants.
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