Las referencias a la literatura clásica en la tratadística de los siglos XV-XVII como evidencia del carácter «literario» de la brujería: primera aproximación
This article offers a first approach to Classical literature as one of the strata underlying the development of European witchcraft. This is done from the point of view of how references made to these women in some treaties from the 15th to 17th centuries support the «literary» condition of the phen...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | Spanish |
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Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon
2016-04-01
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| Series: | Atalaya |
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| Online Access: | http://journals.openedition.org/atalaya/1624 |
| Summary: | This article offers a first approach to Classical literature as one of the strata underlying the development of European witchcraft. This is done from the point of view of how references made to these women in some treaties from the 15th to 17th centuries support the «literary» condition of the phenomenon of witchcraft. The witches that appear in the Greek and Latin texts are a reflection of the terrible femininity that lives not only in the pages of books but are also part of the collective imaginary. As Julio Caro Baroja points out, people firmly believe in the existence of such women and in all the actions imputed to them according to the works where they appear. Thus Circe, Medea, Panfila, and others are repeatedly named in treatises that delve into sorcery and witchcraft as a proof of what sorceresses and witches can or cannot do. This fact supports our thesis about the eminently «literary» and folkloric nature of witchcraft as a phenomenon, according to an approach that we have already applied and which is further developed here. |
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| ISSN: | 1167-8437 2102-5614 |