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200 14$aThe night battles $ewitchcraft & agrarian cults in the sixteenth & seventeenth centuries /$fCarlo Ginzburg ; translated by John & Anne Tedeschi
210  1$aAbingdon, Oxon :$cRoutledge,$d2011.
215   $a1 online resource (241 p.)
225 0 $aRoutledge library editions : witchcraft ;$v4
300   $aFirst published in English in 1983.
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320   $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
327   $aCover; The Night Battles: Witchcraft & Agrarian Cults in the Sixteenth & Seventeenth Centuries; Copyright; Contents; Foreword by Eric Hobsbawm; Translators' note; Preface to the English edition; Preface to the Italian edition; I. The night battles; II. The processions of the dead; III. The benandanti between inquisitors and witches; IV. The benandanti at the sabbat; Appendix; Notes; Index of names
330   $aBased on research in the Inquisitorial archives, the book recounts the story of a peasant fertility cult centred on the benandanti. These men and women regarded themselves as professional anti-witches, who (in dream-like states) apparently fought ritual battles against witches and wizards, to protect their villages and harvests. If they won, the harvest would be good, if they lost, there would be famine. The inquisitors tried to fit them into their pre-existing images of the witches' sabbat. The result of this cultural clash which lasted over a century, was the slow metamorphosis of the ben
410  0$aRoutledge Library Editions: Witchcraft
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607   $aFriuli (Italy)$xReligious life and customs
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