Titlebook: Urban Magic in Early Modern Spain; Abracadabra Omnipote María Tausiet Book 2013 Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limi

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Prologue: Abracadabra Omnipotens,though it suffered terrible destruction during the Peninsular War and — in more recent times — was further damaged by misguided ideas about what constituted ‘progress’, it nevertheless retains significant traces of its Roman origins: several sections of the city walls, an impressive amphitheatre, th

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Magic Circles and Enchanted Treasures,racteristic of urban sorcery was its link to the survival instinct of men and women living in a strange and sometimes hostile environment, to whom it made absolute sense to invest in get- rich-quick schemes in the hope of overcoming their sense of dislocation and escaping the everyday hardships of t

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Magic for Love or Subjugation,e. Finding treasure by magical means was a formidable task, but did just about lie within the realm of the achievable. Attempting to subjugate another person’s will to one’s own, however, was nigh on impossible. Nevertheless, there is far more surviving evidence relating to what is known as . or . t

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The City as Refuge,es in their home villages ended up moving to Saragossa to avoid persecution. Not, of course, that the capital was some kind of ‘lawless city as far as magical practices were concerned. As we have seen, cases of witchcraft and sorcery could be heard by any of three different court systems, and, in th

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Rural versus Urban Magic,n sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Saragossa. We know something of their lives because a common thread bound them together: they all had to defend themselves against charges of practising what we today would call ‘magic’, a word encompassing a whole range of activities known at the time by differe

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Epilogue: In Times of Plague,they either turned to magic or sought solace in religion. As a man of the Enlightenment, Defoe regarded this as a choice between opposing positions, since it was ‘the common people’ who followed ‘mock astrologers’ while ‘serious and understanding persons thundered against these and other wicked prac

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