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Witch hunts: who benefits?

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    Babylone
  • 26 August 2015
  • Martine Ostorero
    • Lettres, UNIL
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A treatise whose meticulously detailed descriptions of these "abominable" practices will enable us to understand what was at stake in this madness scaffolded in the West at the dawn of the 15th century, namely the belief in the witches' sabbath. Why? For whom?

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