La posesión demoníaca en el Pirineo aragonés

RIEV. Cuadernos, 9. Akelarre: la caza de brujas en el Pirineo (siglos XIII-XIX). Homenaje al profesor Gustav Henningsen

Cari Lacruz, Ángel

Publication year:
2012
Publication place:
Donostia-San Sebastián
ISBN:
978-84-8419-238-1

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Summary

Demonic possesion appears in the Aragonese Pyrenees as an usual phenomenom from the eleventh century until the early twentieth century. The three epidemics of collective demonic possession emerged during the fifteenth and seventeenth centuries are studied and the sociocultural conditions that led to that situation. The symptoms described are a metaphor of the underlying worldviews.
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