Maria de Padilla: Queen of the Souls

Humberto Maggi,Veronica Rivas

Maria de Padilla: Queen of the Souls
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Hadean Press
Country
United Kingdom
Published
3 July 2015
Pages
112
ISBN
9781907881459

Maria de Padilla: Queen of the Souls

Humberto Maggi,Veronica Rivas

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A personal, practical, and historical work, Maria de Padilla: Queen of the Souls is a detailed account of the life and death of the Spanish queen Maria de Padilla, her rise to popularity in the witchcraft of Spain and Portugal, and her later migration with the exiled witches to Brazil where she would become the queen of the souls in Quimbanda. The text includes a comparative study of the symbolism of the sorcerous spirits called pombagiras with entities from other cultures, specifically the dakinis of Vajrayana Buddhism, as well as historical research on the origins of Quimbanda, and a collection of spells from the 17th century up to the contemporary chanted invocations used in Quimbanda.

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