The Witches' Accomplice: Toads in Early Modern Navarre

The toad, a mundane yet magical creature, serves as a fruitful focal point for exploring the evolution of witchcraft beliefs and its prosecution in Spanish Navarre. Drawing from local, non-inquisitorial witch trials in Navarre, this article reveals how toads evolved throughout the sixteenth and seve...

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Main Author: Rojas, Rochelle (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Sixteenth Century Journal Publishers, Inc. 2020
In: The sixteenth century journal
Year: 2020, Volume: 51, Issue: 3, Pages: 719-740
RelBib Classification:KAH Church history 1648-1913; modern history
KBH Iberian Peninsula
NBH Angelology; demonology
Further subjects:B TOADS
B LEGAL evidence
B Violence against
B WITCHCRAFT; History
B Trials (Witchcraft)
B Witch hunting
B Witches
B History

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