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 peyo...
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| Format: | Electronic Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY, USA
Cambridge University Press
2025
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| In: | Year: 2025 |
| Further subjects: | B
Inquisition
History 16th century (Mexico)
B Witchcraft History 16th century (Mexico) |
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| Parallel Edition: | Erscheint auch als: 9781009550529 |
| Summary: | 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 her hair loose and chanted to a Mesoamerican god while sweeping at midnight; the wealthy Basque woman with a tattoo of a red devil; and many others - routinely adapted Native ritual into hybrid magic and cosmology. Through a radical rethinking of colonial knowledge, Martin Austin Nesvig uncovers a world previously left in the shadows of historical writing, revealing a fascinating and vibrant multi-ethnic community of witches, midwives, and healers. |
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| Item Description: | Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 29 May 2025) |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xii, 308 pages), digital, PDF file(s). |
| ISBN: | 978-1-009-55050-5 978-1-009-55052-9 978-1-009-55054-3 |
| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1017/9781009550505 |
