Disamparada - La guaritrice

Description:

Historical novel about the witch hunt in Sardinia: the setting is historically and anthropologically accurate with credible characters. The prose is flowing, enlivened and enriched by inlays in the Sardinian language (variant of Logudoro). Juana is a young woman of a imaginary village in Sardinia in the XVII century. She's took after her grandmother the magical "gift" and was brought to became the new shaman of the village. Some women, followers of a secret pagan cult, try to convince her to join them, while a fanatical priest starts to make after the woman...

subjects: history,  anthropology,  witch hunt,  shaman,  sincretism

People: Holy Inquisition,  witch hunt,  shaman,  dea mater

Places: Sardegna,  Sardinia,  Logudoro

Times: Witch hunt,  Holy Inquisition,  XVII century