El diablo y las brujas: una religiosidad del miedo.

The paper analyzes the concepts of 'demon' and 'wizard' and the changes undergone by them from the 14th to 17th centuries in Western Europe. Both concepts were re-conceptualized into de Catholic Church and have been closely bound together in the Western religious thought during the Renaissance and Baroque periods. The analysis is focused on two aspects: on the one hand, the increasing presence of demon in the studied period, and its relation with wizards, men and women, in order to help them in their sorceries, but always as an exchange of helping demon in its battle against God. On the other hand, the paper analyzes the many types of female wizards and the kinds of sorceries that these made, like to provoke sickness and healing, to cause death, or to foresee the future. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]