Cultures of Witchcraft in Europe from the Middle Ages to the Present

This volume is a collection based on the contributions to witchcraft studies of Willem de Blécourt, to whom it is dedicated, and who provides the opening chapter, setting out a methodological and conceptual agenda for the study of cultures of witchcraft (broadly defined) in Europe since the Middle A...

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Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing, 2018.
Edition:1st ed. 2018.
Series:Palgrave Historical Studies in Witchcraft and Magic
Subjects:
Europe-History-476-1492.
Europe-History-1492-.
Civilization-History.
Social history.
ISBN:9783319637846
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction; Jonathan Barry, Owen Davies and Cornelie Usborne
  • Contested Knowledge: The Historical Anthropologist's Approach to European Witchcraft; Willem de Blécourt
  • Witches and Devil's Magic in Austrian Demonological Legends; Christa Agnes Tuczay
  • Hanna Dyâb's Witch and the Great Witch Switch; Ruth Bottigheimer
  • The Mirror of the Witches (1600). A German tragedy in context; Rita Voltmer
  • Unravelling the Myth and Histories of the Weighing Test at Oudewater: the case of Leentje Williams; Machteld Löwensteyn
  • The North Sea as a Crossroads of Witchcraft Beliefs: the limited importance of political boundaries; Hans de Waardt
  • "Kind in words and deeds, but false in their hearts". Fear of evil conspiracy in late sixteenth-century Denmark; Louise Nyholm Kallestrup
  • "Ein gefehrlich Ding, darin leichtlich zuviel geschieht" (A dangerous thing in which too much happens easily): The end of village witch-trials in the Saar region; Eva Labouvie
  • News from the Invisible World: the publishing history of tales of the supernatural c.1660-1832; Jonathan Barry
  • Researching Reverse-Witch Trials in Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century England; Owen Davies
  • The Catechism of Witch Lore in Twentieth-Century Denmark; Gustav Henningsen
  • Magic and Counter-Magic in Twenty-First-Century Bosnia; Mirjam Mencej
  • Index.

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