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.
- ISBN10 009174024X
- ISBN13 9780091740245
- Publish Date 31 January 1991
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 10 August 2021
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Century Hutchinson (A Division of Random House Group)
- Imprint Radius
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 339
- Language English