Cultures of Witchcraft in Europe from the Middle Ages to the Present

Cultures of Witchcraft in Europe from the Middle Ages to the Present

Barry, Jonathan; Usborne, Cornelie; Davies, Owen

Springer International Publishing AG

08/2018

283

Mole

Inglês

9783319876344

15 a 20 dias

454

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Introduction; Jonathan Barry, Owen Davies and Cornelie Usborne.- Contested Knowledge: The Historical Anthropologist's Approach to European Witchcraft; Willem de Blecourt.- Witches and Devil's Magic in Austrian Demonological Legends; Christa Agnes Tuczay.- Hanna Dyab's Witch and the Great Witch Switch; Ruth Bottigheimer.- The Mirror of the Witches (1600). A German tragedy in context; Rita Voltmer.- Unravelling the Myth and Histories of the Weighing Test at Oudewater: the case of Leentje Williams; Machteld Loewensteyn.- The North Sea as a Crossroads of Witchcraft Beliefs: the limited importance of political boundaries; Hans de Waardt.- "Kind in words and deeds, but false in their hearts". Fear of evil conspiracy in late sixteenth-century Denmark; Louise Nyholm Kallestrup.- "Ein gefehrlich Ding, darin leichtlich zuviel geschieht" (A dangerous thing in which too much happens easily): The end of village witch-trials in the Saar region; Eva Labouvie.- News from the Invisible World: the publishing history of tales of the supernatural c.1660-1832; Jonathan Barry.- Researching Reverse-Witch Trials in Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century England; Owen Davies.- The Catechism of Witch Lore in Twentieth-Century Denmark; Gustav Henningsen.- Magic and Counter-Magic in Twenty-First-Century Bosnia; Mirjam Mencej.- Index.
folklore;witch trials;bewitchment;cunning folk;demonology