Gustav Henningsen's academic study of the Sicilian donne di fuori folk belief and its trial-record documentation, a chapter in Early Modern European Witchcraft: Centres and Peripheries, Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1990.
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Reliability Tier1
Reliability tier 1: a peer reviewed chapter by a historian of the Danish and Spanish Inquisition archives, built directly on Sicilian Inquisition trial records of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries in which accused benandanti-like visionaries described nocturnal gatherings with the donne di fuori, read comparatively alongside similar archaic sabbath patterns Henningsen traced across southern Europe. Citation
AuthorGustav Henningsen, in Bengt Ankarloo and Gustav Henningsen (eds.)
PublisherClarendon Press, Oxford, in Early Modern European Witchcraft: Centres and Peripheries
Publication Year1990
Source Typeacademic monograph
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Gustav Henningsen, in Bengt Ankarloo and Gustav Henningsen (eds.), Clarendon Press, Oxford, in Early Modern European Witchcraft: Centres and Peripheries, 1990Publisher and cataloguing record, Clarendon Press
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