[PDF.78bt] The Night Battles: Witchcraft and Agrarian Cults in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries

The Night Battles: Witchcraft and Agrarian Cults in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries

[PDF.ui56] The Night Battles: Witchcraft and Agrarian Cults in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries

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 | #551194 in Books |  2013-10-01 | Original language:Italian | PDF # 1 |  9.25 x.63 x6.13l,.75 | File type: PDF | 240 pages

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||1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.| Battle for the Grain|By S. Cranow|In the area of Friuli Italy back during the medieval times there was a group of people properly known as the Banadante. There work was connected primarily to the agricultural farming seasons. There job was to protect the seeds and the harvest from the witches. Going to sleep at night lying on their backs there astral bodies would float thoroug| ||"A work of genuine intellectual distinction. It is an unusually original contribution to the study of witchcraft in early modern Europe, but its importance is far from being exhausted by that description." (Peter Burke New York of Books)

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Based on research in the Inquisitorial archives of Northern Italy, The Night Battles recounts the story of a peasant fertility cult centered on the benandanti, literally, "good walkers." These men and women described fighting extraordinary ritual battles against witches and wizards in order to protect their harvests. While their bodies slept, the souls of the benandanti were able to fly into the night sky to engage in epic spiritual combat for ...

You easily download any file type for your gadget.The Night Battles: Witchcraft and Agrarian Cults in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries   |  Carlo Ginzburg. I was recommended this book by a dear friend of mine.

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