03270nam 2200685 a 450 991014501600332120200520144314.01-5261-3797-61-280-73457-497866107345731-84779-099-210.7765/9781526137975(CKB)1000000000244821(EBL)589296(OCoLC)232157340(SSID)ssj0000285633(PQKBManifestationID)11235290(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000285633(PQKBWorkID)10278127(PQKB)10849259(OCoLC)ocm57202255(Au-PeEL)EBL589296(CaPaEBR)ebr10096102(CaONFJC)MIL73457(MiAaPQ)EBC589296(oapen)https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/35341(UkMaJRU)992976577614601631(DE-B1597)658731(DE-B1597)9781526137975(EXLCZ)99100000000024482120050119d2004 uy 0engurmu#nnnuuuuutxtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierWitchcraft continued popular magic in modern Europe /edited by Willem de Blecourt and Owen Davies1st ed.Manchester ;New York Manchester University Press Distributed exclusively in the USA by Palgrave20041 online resource (viii, 219 pages) digital, PDF file(s)Manchester Religious StudiesDescription based upon print version of record.0-7190-6658-1 Includes bibliographical references and index.Introduction: witchcraft continued -- 1. A case of witchcraft assault in early nineteenth-century England as ostensive action -- 2. Witchcraft, witch doctors and the fight against 'superstition' in nineteenth-century Germany -- 3. The witch and the detective: mid-Victorian stories and beliefs -- 4. Narrative and the social dynamics of magical harm in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Finland -- 5. Boiling chickens and burning cats: witchcraft in the western Netherlands, 1850-192 -- 6. Witchcraft accusations in France, 1850-1990 -- 7. Magical healing in Spain (1875-1936): medical pluralism and the search for hegemony -- 8. Witchcraft, healing and vernacular magic in Italy -- 9. Curse, maleficium, divination: witchcraft on the borderline of religion and magic --10. Spooks and spooks: black magic and bogeymen in Northern Ireland, 1973-74 -- Index.An important collection of essays that use a variety of different approaches and sources to uncover the continued relevance of witchcraft and magic in nineteenth and twentieth-century Europe.WitchcraftEuropeHistory19th centuryWitchcraftEuropeHistory20th centuryWitchcraftHistoryWitchcraftHistory133.4309409034Blecourt Willem de0Davies Owen1969-800733MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910145016003321Witchcraft continued2030752UNINA