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Title Communicating with the Spirits / edited by Éva Pócs and Gábor Klaniczay
Published Budapest ; New York : Central European University Press, 2005

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Description 1 online resource (1 volume)
Series Demons, spirits, witches ; v. 1
Demons, spirits, witches ; v. 1.
Contents TABLE OF CONTENTS; LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS; INTRODUCTION; Part I DISCERNMENT OF SPIRITS AND POSSESSION; Part II CONTACTS WITH THE OTHER WORLD; Part III DIVINATION, SHAMANISM; LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS; INDEX
Summary Focuses on the problem of communication with the other world: the phenomenon of spirit possession and its changing historical interpretations, the imaginary schemes elaborated for giving accounts of the journeys to the other world and for communicating with the dead, and finally the historical archetypes of this kind of religious manifestation -- trance prophecy, divination, and shamanism
Analysis Anthropology, Demonology, Folklore, Religion, Witchcraft
Notes Includes index
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Subject Witchcraft -- Europe -- History -- Congresses
Demonology -- Europe -- History -- Congresses
Folklore -- Europe -- History -- Congresses
BODY, MIND & SPIRIT -- Occultism.
Demonology
Folklore
Witchcraft
Europe
Genre/Form Conference papers and proceedings
History
Form Electronic book
Author Pócs, Éva, editor.
Klaniczay, Gábor, editor.
ISBN 142371749X
9781423717492
9789637326134
9637326138
6155053561
9786155053566