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Revista do Instituto Histórico e Geográfico Brasileiro
"Indice dos artigos contidos nos 50 tomos, " vol. 76 (t. 51) 1888, p. [379]-404.
The Devil and the Land of the Holy Cross
Originally published in Brazil as O Diabo e a Terra de Santa Cruz, this translation from the Portuguese analyzes the nature of popular religion and the ways it was transferred to the New World in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Using richly detailed transcripts from Inquisition trials, Mello e Souza reconstructs how Iberian, indigenous, and African beliefs fused to create a syncretic and magical religious culture in Brazil. Focusing on sorcery, the author argues that European traditions of witchcraft combined with practices of Indians and African slaves to form a uniquely Brazilian set of beliefs that became central to the lives of the people in the colony. Her work shows how the In...
Revista do Instituto Histórico e Geográfico de São Paulo
Vol. 22: Consagrado á passagem do 1.̊ centenario da independencia do Brasil em São Paulo; v. 29: Conferencias commemorativas do IV centenario da fundaçao de São Vicente.
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