Italian Witchcraft and Shamanism by Angela Puca (Brill, 2024) Hardback

Italian Witchcraft and Shamanism by Angela Puca (Brill, 2024) HardbackAngela Puca. Italian Witchcraft and Shamanism: The Tradition of Segnature, Indigenous and Trans cultural Shamanic Traditions in Italy. Aries Book Series, Volume 35. Leiden & Boston: Brill, 2024. Hardback. 210 pages. Condition: Near Fine. Slight shelf wear on cover. Description from the publisher: Shamanism is thriving as an exotic import and a hidden native tradition in Italy today. This ethnographical work uncovers two faces of Italian shamanism. The

which brought together the rural settings and the urban masses that obsessed over them

(Note that the process of executing passkeys and gestures is often misconstrued as a trance

Its source honours the ‘pagan’ spirit

and impetus for human evolution

but not least in the embrace of fate that smites its carrier

have been made to enhance practices concerned with the sorcerous work that lies ahead

what is required is to render them comprehensible and ‘user friendly’ in a time where they are regaining their deserved prestige as monuments of a tradition preceding the Christian era while nonetheless rooted in it

His excellent rendition

the Devil and the Forest

Frater Acher takes us on a journey of discovery on Becoming Alike to the Angelic Mind as originally articulated by Johannes Trithemius

and superstitions

Spanning hundreds of years and including texts both familiar and strange