Erica reviewed Ecstasies by Carlo Ginzburg
Weaving early accounts of witchcraft—trial records, ecclesiastical tracts, folklore, and popular iconography—into new and startling …
Grasping at straws for the "universal story"
3 stars
Carlo Ginzburg: Ecstasies (2004, University Of Chicago Press) 5 stars Some good research on ecstatic ceremonies that survived from pre-Christian times into the medieval era in Italy, but then the author goes off the rails and tries to link what little we know about these celtic, pre-Christian religions to the Campbell-istic/Jungian hero's journey BS