| Author |
Nesvig, Martin Austin, 1968- author.
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| Title |
The women who threw corn : witchcraft and Inquisition in sixteenth-century Mexico / Martin Austin Nesvig. |
| Publication Info. |
Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 2025.
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©2025 |
| Description |
xii, 308 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Content Type |
text |
| Media Type |
unmediated |
| Carrier Type |
volume |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Demonological and anti-sorcery theories in Spain -- Mesoamerican magic-medicine -- Inquisitions, sorcery investigations, and the law in Mexico, 1521-1571 -- Nahua women teach Iberian women how to cast spells -- A multi-ethnic world of magic -- African witches in Mexico City -- Bad girls club : Moriscas, North Africans, and Canarians in Mexico -- The evil eye and a mysterious tattoo -- Healing and magic in Oaxaca and Michoacán, 1561-1562 -- Mulatas incorporate peyote and patle -- Catalina de Peraza, Canarian bad girl personified. |
| Summary |
"This book tells the stories of women from Spain, North Africa, Senegambia, and Canaries accused of witchcraft 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 rethinking of colonial knowledge, Martin Austin Nesvig uncovers a world previously left in the shadows of historical writing, revealing a multi-ethnic community of witches, midwives, and healers"-- Provided by the publisher. |
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