Brujería : Una historia en trece juicios

Witch trials seem archaic and absurd to us today, a bad memory of a dark age. Yet we frequently hear about "witch hunts" in the media, and the misogyny that fueled those persecutions feels all too familiar. Professor Marion Gibson takes thirteen famous trials spanning seven centuries in Europe, Africa, and the United States as her starting point to explore the origins of this practice and tell a global history of witchcraft and witch hunts. She also delves into the lives of some of the "witches," including Helena Scheuberin, Anny Sampson, and Joan Wright, whose stories have been overshadowed by those of the powerful men who persecuted them, such as King James I and the "Inquisitor General" Matthew Hopkins. A chilling journey from the Middle Ages to the 21st century along little-known paths, such as the reinvention of witchcraft by radical lawyers and historians in France, the suspicions of witchcraft that led to murder in Pennsylvania's Jazz Age, or the witch trials that today are hidden under other disguises.