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For centuries witches on trial admitted to taking part in gruesome "sabbaths" where they cast spells, worshipped a bestial devil, enacted obscenely blasphemous rites and even devoured corpses. Many scholars believe that such confessions, often enacted under torture were just a reflection of their persecutors' fantasies. Certainly as Carlo Ginzburg shows, witch hunters adapted the stereotypes earlier used to descredit and persecute lepers and Jews.
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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 across Europe and in England for thousands of years.
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Carlo Ginzburg is professor emeritus at Scuola Normale Superiore, Italy, and the University of California, Los Angeles. He is the author of many books, including The Cheese and the Worms, The Night Battles, and Myths, Emblems, and Clues.
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- PublisherPenguin Books Ltd
- Publication date1992
- ISBN 10 0140173137
- ISBN 13 9780140173130
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages352
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Book Description Paperback. Condition: Fine. Explores the deeper roots of the witches' confessions and reinterprets some of the fairy tales and myths. A fascinating and scholarly study. Penguin Books Ltd 1992. illus viii + 339pp pb fine. Seller Inventory # 006422
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