Maria de Padilla: Queen of the Souls

by Humberto Maggi and Verónica Rivas

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 Mar a 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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 190788145X
• ISBN13: 9781907881459
• Release Date: July 2015
• Publisher: Hadean Press Limited
• Length: 112 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.0" x 8.0"