The Women Who Threw Corn: Witchcraft and Inquisition in Sixteenth-Century Mexico - Hardcover
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Language:EnglishPublisher:Cambridge University PressISBN-13:9781009550529ISBN-10:1009550527UPC:9781009550529Book Category:History, Body, Mind & SpiritBook Subcategory:Latin America, Magick StudiesSize:9.06 x 5.91 x 1.10 inchesWeight:1.7527Product ID:SCHTHFBYP5
The Women Who Threw Corn: Witchcraft and Inquisition in Sixteenth-Century Mexico
This book tells the stories of women from Spain, North Africa, Senegambia, and Canaries accused of sorcery in sixteenth-century Mexico for adapting native magic and healing practices. These non-native women - the mulata of Seville who cured the evil eye; the Canarian daughter of a Count who ate peyote and mixed her bath water into a man's mustard supply; the wife of a Spanish conquistador who let...
Language:EnglishPublisher:Cambridge University PressISBN-13:9781009550529ISBN-10:1009550527UPC:9781009550529Book Category:History, Body, Mind & SpiritBook Subcategory:Latin America, Magick StudiesSize:9.06 x 5.91 x 1.10 inchesWeight:1.7527Product ID:SCHTHFBYP5
Nesvig, Martin Austin: - Martin Austin Nesvig is Professor of History at the University of Miami, and a fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation. He is the author of five books including Ideology and Inquisition: The World of the Censors in Early Mexico (2009) and Promiscuous Power: An Unorthodox History of New Spain (2018).
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