| Description |
1 online resource (1 electronic resource (viii, 219 pages)) |
| Contents |
Introduction : witchcraft continued / Willem de Blécourt and Owen Davies -- A case of witchcraft assault in early nineteenth-century England as ostensive action / Stephen Mitchell -- Witchcraft, witch doctors and the fight against 'superstition' in nineteenth-century Germany / Nils Freytag -- The witch and the detective : mid-Victorian stories and beliefs / Susan Hoyle -- Narrative and the social dynamics of magical harm in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Finland / Laura Stark -- Boiling chickens and burning cats : witchcraft in the western Netherlands, 1850-1925 / Willem de Blécourt -- Witchcraft accusations in France, 1850-1990 / Owen Davies -- Magical healing in Spain (1875-1936) : medical pluralism and the search for hegemony / Enrique Perdiguero -- Witchcraft, healing and vernacular magic in Italy / Sabina Magliocco -- Curse, maleficium, divination : witchcraft on the borderline of religion and magic / Éva Pócs -- Spooks and spooks : black magic and bogeymen in Northern Ireland, 1973-74 / Richard Jenkins |
| Summary |
An important collection of essays that use a variety of different approaches and sources to uncover the continued relevance of witchcraft and magic in nineteenth and twentieth-century Europe |
| Analysis |
Multi-User |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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English |
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Description based on print version record; resource not viewed |
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digitized 2011 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL |
| Subject |
Witchcraft -- Europe -- History -- 19th century
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Witchcraft -- Europe -- History -- 20th century
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Humanities.
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Religion and beliefs.
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Alternative belief systems.
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Occult studies.
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HISTORY -- General.
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Witchcraft
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Hexerei
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Hekserij.
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Magie.
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Volksgeloof.
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Geschichte 1800-2000.
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Witchcraft -- Europe -- History -- 19th century.
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Witchcraft -- Europe -- History -- 20th century.
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Europe
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Europa
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Blécourt, Willem de
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Davies, Owen, 1969-
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| LC no. |
2019667423 |
| ISBN |
1847790992 |
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9781847790996 |
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9780719066580 |
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0719066581 |
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1526137976 |
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9780719066597 |
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071906659X |
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1280734574 |
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9781280734571 |
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9786610734573 |
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6610734577 |
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9781526137975 |
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