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Focusing on sorcery, the author argues that European traditions of witchcraft combined with practices of Indians & African slaves to form a uniquely Brazilian set of beliefs that became central to the lives of the people of the colony.Souza, Laura de Mello e is the author of 'Devil and the Land of the Holy Cross Witchcraft, Slavery, and Popular Religion in Colonial Brazil', published 2004 under ISBN 9780292702363 and ISBN 0292702361.
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