'This is definitely a fine, innovative book.'
José Pedro Paiva, Nordic Journal of Comparative Religion, 2005.
'This helpful book outlines the skeptical attitude toward witchcraft expressed by a part of the ecclesiastical hierarchies; moreover it portrays religious and cultural life in the Basque Provinces during the first part of the seventeenth century.'
MichaelaValente, Universita degli studi del Molise, Sixteenth Century Journal
Early in the seventeenth century the Western Pyrenees were riven by one of the greatest witch panics in history. The mountain villagers were in uproar when villagers' children reported how they were being abducted every night and taken to the witches' sabbath. The abductors denounced by the 'child-witches' were subjected to violence and illegal torture to wrest confessions from them. A series of eye-witness reports written by a Jesuit, a Bishop, and a Spanish Inquisitor show a surprising lack of interest in the demonological theories of their time, and analyse the phenomenon from its psychological, sociological and anthropological angles. Part One discusses the anatomy of this collective nightmare or dream-epidemic, and provides an introduction to a bilingual edition of the reports in Part Two.
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