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Title Witchcraft mythologies and persecutions / edited by Gábor Klaniczay and Éva Pócs, in collaboration with Eszter Csonka-Takács
Published Budapest ; New York : Central European University Press, 2008

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Description 1 online resource (1 volume)
Series Demons, spirits, witches ; vol. 3
Demons, spirits, witches ; v. 3.
Contents Machine derived contents note: Table Of Contents -- Introduction by Gßbor Klaniczay and Éva Pócs -- Part I -- Mythologies -- Martine Ostorero, The Concept of the Witches¿ Sabbath in the Alpine Region (1430-1440) Text and Context -- Round-table discussion on ¿Ecstasies¿ by Carlo Ginzburg (with the participation of Wolfgang Behringer, Carlo Ginzburg, Gustav Henningsen, Gßbor Klaniczay, Giovanni Pizza and E ́va Pócs) -- Gßbor Klaniczay, Learned Systems and Popular Narratives of Vision and Bewitchment -- Adelina Angusheva, Late Medieval Witch Mythologies in the Balkans -- Per Șrlin, Child-Witches and the Construction of the Witches¿ Sabbath: The Swedish Blåkulla Story -- Part II -- Legal mechanisms, social contexts -- Péter To ́th G., River Ordeal¿Trial by Water¿Swimming of Witches: Procedures of Ordeal in Witchcraft Trials -- Ildikó Kristóf, How to Make a (Legal) Pact with the Devil? Legal Customs and Literacy in Witch Confessions in Early Modern Hungary -- Anna Brzezinska, Healing at the Jagiellonian Court -- Polina Melik Simonian, Following the Traces of Xenophobia in Muscovite Witchcraft Investigation Records -- Judit Kis-Halas, Trial of an Honest Citizen, Nagybßnya 1704-5: The social and cultural context of witchcraft accusations -- a tentative microanalysis -- Daniel Ryan, Boundaries and Transgressions: Witchcraft and Community Conflict in Estonia During the Late Nineteenth Century -- Part II -- Witchcraft and folklore -- Francisco Vaz da Silva, Extraordinary Children, Werewolves and Witches in Portuguese Folk-Tradition -- Ülo Valk, Reflections of Folk Belief and Legends at the Witch Trials of Estonia -- Iveta Todorova-Pirgova, Witches and Priests in the Bulgarian Village: Past and Present -- Mirjam Mencej, Witchcraft in Eastern Slovenia
Summary This third, concluding volume of the series publishes 14 studies and the transcription of a round-table discussion on Carlo Ginzburg's Ecstasies. The themes of the previous two volumes, Communicating with the Spirits, and Christian Demonology and Popular Mythology, are further expanded here both as regards their interdisciplinary approach and the wide range of regional comparisons. While the emphasis of the second volume was on current popular belief and folklore as seen in the context of the historical sources on demonology, this volume approaches its subject from the point of view of historical anthropology. The greatest recent advances of witchcraft research occurred recently in two fields: (1) deciphering the variety of myths and the complexity of historical processes which lead to the formation of the witches' Sabbath, (2) the micro-historical analysis of the social, religious, legal and cultural milieu where witchcraft accusations and persecutions developed. These two themes are completed by some further insights into the folklore of the concerned regions which still carries the traces of the traumatic historical memories of witchcraft persecutions
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Witchcraft.
Witchcraft
witchcraft.
BODY, MIND & SPIRIT -- Magick Studies.
BODY, MIND & SPIRIT -- Witchcraft & Wicca.
HISTORY -- Medieval.
Witchcraft
Form Electronic book
Author Pócs, Éva.
Klaniczay, Gábor.
Csonka-Takács, Eszter.
ISBN 9781435648272
1435648277
1283248018
9781283248013
9786155211508
6155211507