This article aims at performing an analysis based on narratives about everyday experiences of subjects living in Santiago del Estero, Argentina, which are mediated by a mythical record: one of them religious and the other sex-generic. This time, we work on the relation between two characters: the student of magic and the witch, thus articulating my...
This contribution reflects about the evolution of the mythical and fantastic fairies, typical of legends, folklore and literature, to the figure of the wicked witch, condemned by the inquisitors and demonologists of the late middle ages and the beginnings of modernity. The methodology followed has been the use of various sources: treaties on demono...
Meigas are one of the most emblematic figures of the traditional and popular Galician culture, assuming themselves different knowledge, from natural therapists to bad women. In any case, they are an eminently feminine personage, as the hysterical ones. In this work, we do not try to assimilate both, but, across the characterizations of meigas and h...
This article's second part puts forward the fate of those mad defendants inquisitors considered likely to spread their prophecies and slanders. Essentially, the article analyses certain cases where inquisitors used madness as a power means to exclude, isolate and get rid of them, once and for all. Besides, cases where particularly dangerous slander...
La bruja, el diablo y el inquisidor
