Witchcraft and Demonology in Hungary and Transylvania

Witchcraft and Demonology in Hungary and Transylvania

Klaniczay, Gabor; Pocs, Eva

Springer International Publishing AG

08/2018

412

Mole

Inglês

9783319854717

15 a 20 dias

557

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?The social background of witchcraft accusations in early modern Debrecen and Bihar County; Ildiko Sz. Kristof.- Witchcraft, greed and revenge: The prosecutor activity of Gyoergy Igyarto and the witch trials of Kolozsvar in the 1580s; Laszlo Pako.- Healers in Hungarian witch trials; Gabor Klaniczay.- Divinatio diabolica and magical medicine. Healers, seers and diviners in early modern Nagybanya; Judit Kis-Halas.- Shamanism or witchcraft? The taltos before the tribunals; Eva Pocs.- The decriminalization of magic and the fight against superstitions in Hungary and Transylvania 1740-1848; Peter Toth G.- Demonology and Catholic Enlightenment in eighteenth-century Hungary; Daniel Barth.- Talking through witchcraft - on the bewitchment discourse of a village community; Agnes Hesz.- Index.
folklore;anthropology;religion;superstition;magic