10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «WITCHES' SABBATH»
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Ecstasies: Deciphering the
Witches'
Sabbath
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 ...
The author describes his involvement in the intellectual and artistic life of France and portrays his friendships with figures, such as Jean Cocteau, Andre Gide, and Andre Malraux
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The
Witches'
Sabbath - A Study of Witchcraft and Devil ...
A study of witchcraft and devil worship in Europe, tracing the development in attitudes and approaches towards the occult from centuries ago up to the modern day.
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Scandinavian Folk Belief and Legend
The Witches' Sabbath According to folk tradition, witches met the devil on
Bldkollen (Blue Mountain), in churches or in other places to celebrate the
sabbath. This belief had its origin in the witch trials on the continent, where such
events were ...
Reimund Kvideland, Henning K. Sehmsdorf
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Encyclopedia of Comparative Iconography: Themes Depicted in ...
104v) Di'Irer, Albrecht, Witch Riding Backwards on a Goat, engraving, circa 1 500
—1 502 Altdorfer, Albrecht, Witches' Sabbath, pen on pale brown paper, 1506,
Paris, Louvre Baldung Grien, Hans, Witches' Sabbath, pen on red tinted paper, ...
The cauldron of revolution is boiling over and igniting the passions of the people of Ireland.
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quotations from Karl Kraus's Third Witches'Sabbath shinethrough theNazi night of
the spirit.
Eric Voegelin, Detlev Clemens, Brendan M. Purcell,
1999
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Male
Witches in Early Modern Europe
One of the central aspects of learned early modern witch-belief was the witches'
Sabbath, where witches gathered to worship the Devil, dance, feast, indulge in
sexual orgies, and practise cannibalism and infanticide (see figure 10).
Lara Apps, Andrew Gow,
2003
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Witchcraft Mythologies and Persecutions
The witches' Sabbath is fundamentally a communication with the dead; but it is
not necessarily and not merely a "journey into the realms of the dead," if this
refers to the shamanistic migration of the soul in a narrow interpretation of
shamanism.
Gábor Klaniczay, Éva Pócs,
2008
... simply regurgitated a standard demonological version of the sabbath under
duress. A HISTORY OF THE KISS OF SHAME The origins of The osculum infame
: heresy, secular culture and the image the witches' sabbath Jonathan Durrant.