Witchcraft Mythologies and Persecutions

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Titel: Witchcraft Mythologies and Persecutions

Enthält: Frontmatter
Table of Contents
Introduction
Part I. Mythologies
The Concept of the Witches’ Sabbath in the Alpine Region (1430–1440) Text and Context
Round-table discussion with Carlo Ginzburg, Gustav Henningsen, Éva Pócs, Giovanni Pizza and Gábor Klaniczay
Learned Systems and Popular Narratives of Vision and Bewitchment
Late Medieval Witch Mythologies in the Balkans
Child Witches and the Construction of the Witches’ Sabbath: The Swedish Blåkulla Story
Part II. Legal Mechanisms, Social Contexts
Part II Legal Mechanisms, Social Contexts River Ordeal—Trial by Water—Swimming of Witches: Procedures of Ordeal in Witch Trials
How to Make a (Legal) Pact with the Devil? Legal Customs and Literacy in Witch Confessions in Early Modern Hungary
Healing at the Jagiellonian Court
Following the Traces of Xenophobia in Muscovite Witchcraft Investigation Records
Trial of an Honest Citizen in Nagybánya 1704–1705; A Tentative Microanalysis of Witchcraft Accusations
Boundaries and Transgressions: Witchcraft and Community Conflict in Estonia During the Late Nineteenth Century
Part III. Witchcraft and Folklore
Extraordinary Children, Werewolves, and Witches in Portuguese Folk Tradition
Reflections of Folk Belief and Legends at the Witch Trials of Estonia
Witches and Priests in the Bulgarian Village: Past and Present
Witchcraft in Eastern Slovenia
List of Contributors
Index

Beteiligte: Angusheva, Adelina [MitwirkendeR]; Brzezińska, Anna [MitwirkendeR]; Ginzburg, Carlo [MitwirkendeR]; Henningsen, Gustav [MitwirkendeR]; Kis-Halas, Judit [MitwirkendeR]; Klaniczay, Gábor [MitwirkendeR]; Klaniczay, Gábor [HerausgeberIn]; Kristóf, Ildikó [MitwirkendeR]; Mencej, Mirjam [MitwirkendeR]; Ostorero, Martine [MitwirkendeR]; Pizza, Giovanni [MitwirkendeR]; Pócs, Éva [MitwirkendeR]; Pócs, Éva [HerausgeberIn]; Ryan, Daniel [MitwirkendeR]; Simonian, Polina Melik [MitwirkendeR]; Sörlin, Per [MitwirkendeR]; Todorova-Pirgova, Iveta [MitwirkendeR]; Tóth, Péter [MitwirkendeR]; Valk, Ülo [MitwirkendeR]; Vaz da Silva, Francisco [MitwirkendeR]

Erschienen: Budapest; New York: Central European University Press, [2022]

Umfang: 1 Online-Ressource (358 p.)

Sprache: Englisch

ISBN: 9786155211508

Schlagwörter: Demonology Europe History Congresses ; Folklore Europe History Congresses ; Witchcraft Europe History Congresses ; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Folklore & Mythology

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Anmerkungen: In English

Beschreibung: 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

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