Bad Christians and Hanging Toads: Witch Crafting in Northern Spain, 1525-1675 by Rojas, Rochelle
Bad Christians and Hanging Toads: Witch Crafting in Northern Spain, 1525-1675 by Rojas, Rochelle

Bad Christians and Hanging Toads: Witch Crafting in Northern Spain, 1525-1675

Bad Christians and Hanging Toads tells riveting stories of witchcraft in everyday life in early modern Navarra....
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Author: Rochelle Rojas
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Bad Christians and Hanging Toads: Witch Crafting in Northern Spain, 1525-1675 by Rojas, Rochelle

Bad Christians and Hanging Toads: Witch Crafting in Northern Spain, 1525-1675

$189.60
Bad Christians and Hanging Toads: Witch Crafting in Northern Spain, 1525-1675 by Rojas, Rochelle

Bad Christians and Hanging Toads: Witch Crafting in Northern Spain, 1525-1675

$189.60
Author: Rochelle Rojas
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Description

Bad Christians and Hanging Toads tells riveting stories of witchcraft in everyday life in early modern Navarra. Belief in witchcraft not only emerged in moments of mass panic but was woven into the fabric of village life. Some villagers believed witches sickened crops and cows with poisonous powders, others thought they engaged in diabolism and perverted sex, and still others believed they lovingly raised toads used to commit evil deeds. Most villagers, however, simply saw witches as those with reputations of being mala cristianas--bad Christians. Rochelle Rojas illuminates the social webs of accusations and the pathways of village gossip that created the conditions for the witch beliefs and trials of the period.

While studies of witchcraft in Spain tend to focus on the inquisitorial trials and witch panic of 1609-14, Bad Christians and Hanging Toads turns to witch trials conducted by the region's secular judiciary, Navarra's royal tribunals, tracing the prosecution of accused witches over 150 years. Using detailed evidence from trial records and neighbors' testimonies, Rojas vividly brings to life the women and men crafted as witches by their neighbors and the authorities and guides readers through the judicial process, from accusations and the examination of the evidence to sentencing and punishment.

By privileging the voices of villagers throughout, Bad Christians and Hanging Toads demonstrates that the inner logic of early modern European witchcraft trials can be understood only by examining of the local, everyday aspects of witch belief.



Author: Rochelle Rojas
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 03/15/2025
Pages: 216
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.08lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.63d
ISBN: 9781501779718

About the Author

Rochelle Rojas is Assistant Professor of History at Kalamazoo College.


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