Maria de Padilla
Maggi, Humberto / Rivas, Verónica
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. The text includes a comparative study of the symbolism of the sorcerous spirits called pombagiras with entities from other cultures, specifically...