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Steven Hutchinson
The Novelas ejemplares present several autonomous communities or microcosms, one of which is the double ¿mainly female¿ world of witches in the Coloquio. While sorcery is a solitary art, witchcraft is a community practice, a cult. The community of witches has a double existence: it is a secret and geographically dispersed society which really only functions as a community when it comes together for the witches' Sabbath. This countercommunity is distinguished by its feminine practices, beliefs, and relationships. In view of the limited relations between women in Cervantes' novels, this focus on a female community is of extraordinary interest, showing an alternative society and eroticism, and the mystery of birth.
