Maria de Padilla: Queen of the Souls

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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 María 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.

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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.

Com uma pesquisa histórica sobre a biografia da rainha espanhola María de Padilla (1334-1361), e das razões pelas quais seu nome aparece nos feitiços e encantamentos registrados nos ofícios da Inquisição em Espanha, Portugal e Brasil. E um estudo comparativo do simbolismo das pombagiras com entidades mágicas de outras culturas, principalmente as dakinis do Budismo Vajrayana. Inclui uma pesquisa histórica sobre as origens da Quimbanda, e uma coleção de feitiços que vão do século XVII até os pontos cantados usados hoje em Quimbanda.

Maria de Padilla: Queen of the Souls
Humberto Maggi & Verónica Rivas.
ISBN 978-1-907881-45-9 (Paperback)
203mm x 127mm
110 pages.
Published July 2015.

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