Christian demonology and popular mythology [[electronic resource] ] : demons, spirits and witches / / edited by Gabor Klaniczay and Eva Pocs

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910777659903321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Hungary, : Central European University Press, 2006
• ISBN: 978-615-5211-01-0; 9786155211010; 978-6-15521-101-0; 615-5211-01-9; 1-281-26867-4; 9786611268671; 1-4294-1344-1
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (294 p.)
• Collana: Demons, spirits, witches ; ; v.2
• Altri autori (Persone): KlaniczayGábor; PócsÉva
• Disciplina: 133.4094
• Soggetti: Demonology; Witchcraft
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di contenuto: TABLE OF CONTENTS; Contents of the first and the third volume; Introduction; Demons in Krakow, and Image Magic in a Magical Handbook; "A Wall of Bronze " or Demons versus Saints: Whose victory?; An Iconographical Approach to Representations of the Devil in Medieval Hungary; Talking with Demons. Early Modern Theories and Practice; Protestant Devil Figures in Hungary; The Devil and Birthgiving; Serpent - damsels and dragon - slayers: Overlapping divinities in a medieval tradition; Jewish, Noble, German, or Peasant? -The Devil in Early Modern Poland; Sexual Encounters with Spirits and Demons in Early Modern Sweden: Popular and Learned Concepts in Conflict and InteractionChurch demonology and popular beliefs in early modern Sweden; Saintly and Sympathetic Magic in the Lore of the Jews of Carpatho-Russia Between the Two World Wars; Magic as Reflected in Slovenian Folk Tradition and Popular Healing Today; Categories of the "Evil Dead" in Macedonian ; Folk Religion; Balkan demons protecting places; Demons of Fate in Macedonian Folk Beliefs; Gog and Magog in the Slovenian folk tradition; Systematization of the Concept of Demonic and Evil in Mongolian Folk ReligionLIST OF CONTRIBUTORS; INDEX
• Sommario/riassunto: The authors—recognized historians, ethnologists, folklorists coming from four continents—present the latest research findings on the relationship, coexistence and conflicts of popular belief systems, Judeo-Christian mythology and demonology in medieval and modern Europe. The present volume focuses on the divergence between Western and Eastern evolution, on the different relationship of learned demonology to popular belief systems in the two parts of Europe. It discusses the conflict of saints, healers, seers, shamans with the representatives of evil; the special function of escorting, protecting, possessing, harming and healing spirits; the role of the dead, the ghosts, of pre-Christian, Jewish and Christian spirit-world, the antagonism of the devil and the saint.