Witchcraft Mythologies and Persecutions
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Witchcraft Mythologies and Persecutions

  1. 360 pages
  2. English
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Witchcraft Mythologies and Persecutions

About this book

This third, concluding volume of the series publishes 14 studies and the transcription of a round-table discussion on Carlo Ginzburg'sEcstasies.The themes of the previous two volumes, Communicating with the Spirits, andChristian 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.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title page
  3. Table of Contents
  4. Introduction
  5. Part I. Mythologies
  6. Ostorero: The Concept of the Witches’ Sabbath in the Alpine Region (1430-1440) Text and Context
  7. Round-table discussion with Carlo Ginzburg, Gustav Henningsen, Éva Pócs, Giovanni Pizza and Gábor Klaniczay
  8. Klaniczay: Learned Systems and Popular Narratives of Vision and Bewitchment
  9. Angusheva: Late Medieval Witch Mythologies in the Balkans
  10. Sörlin: Child Witches and the Construction of the Witches’ Sabbath: The Swedish Blåkulla Story
  11. Part II. Legal Mechanisms, Social Contexts
  12. Tóth: River Ordeal—Trial by Water—Swimming of Witches: Procedures of Ordeal in Witch Trials
  13. Kristóf: How to Make a (Legal) Pact with the Devil? Legal Customs and Literacy in Witch Confessions in Early Modern Hungary
  14. Brzezińska: Healing at the Jagiellonian Court
  15. Simonian: Following the Traces of Xenophobia in Muscovite Witchcraft Investigation Records
  16. Kis-Halas: Trial of an Honest Citizen in Nagybánya 1704–1705; A Tentative Microanalysis of Witchcraft Accusations
  17. Ryan: Boundaries and Transgressions: Witchcraft and Community Conflict in Estonia During the Late Nineteenth Century
  18. Part III. Witchcraft and Folklore
  19. da Silva: Extraordinary Children, Werewolves, and Witches in Portuguese Folk Tradition
  20. Valk: Reflections of Folk Belief and Legends at the Witch Trials of Estonia
  21. Todorova-Pirgova: Witches and Priests in the Bulgarian Village: Past and Present
  22. Mencej: Witchcraft in Eastern Slovenia
  23. List of Contributors
  24. Index
  25. Untitled