04144nam 2200997z- 450 991040408110332120231214132852.03-03928-960-8(CKB)4100000011302327(oapen)https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/62774(EXLCZ)99410000001130232720202102d2020 |y 0engurmn|---annantxtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierWitchcraft, Demonology and MagicMDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute20201 electronic resource (160 p.)3-03928-959-4 Witchcraft and magic are topics of enduring interest for many reasons. The main one lies in their extraordinary interdisciplinarity: anthropologists, folklorists, historians, and more have contributed to build a body of work of extreme variety and consistence. Of course, this also means that the subjects themselves are not easy to assess. In a very general way, we can define witchcraft as a supernatural means to cause harm, death, or misfortune, while magic also belongs to the field of supernatural, or at least esoteric knowledge, but can be used to less dangerous effects (e.g., divination and astrology). In Western civilization, however, the witch hunt has set a very peculiar perspective in which diabolical witchcraft, the invention of the Sabbat, the persecution of many thousands of (mostly) female and (sometimes) male presumed witches gave way to a phenomenon that is fundamentally different from traditional witchcraft. This Special Issue of Religions dedicated to Witchcraft, Demonology, and Magic features nine articles that deal with four different regions of Europe (England, Germany, Hungary, and Italy) between Late Medieval and Modern times in different contexts and social milieus. Far from pretending to offer a complete picture, they focus on some topics that are central to the research in those fields and fit well in the current “cumulative concept of Western witchcraft” that rules out all mono-causality theories, investigating a plurality of causes.magicdivinationreligious historyThomas HobbesBavariaclassical culturefolkloreCatholic reformdissolution of the monasteriesanimalsFranciscan and Dominican friarsEarly Modern Historyfriarsdemonic possessionTrierAdriaan Koerbaghgynecologybiblical exegesisFranconiamonasticismwitch-hunting in HungaryexorcismItalyconvent casesGermanymonkspopular beliefritual magicInquisitiondevilmediacounter-reformationinquisitionHoly OfficeEnglish reformationwitch trialsspellsFrancewitchcraftpopular/vernacular magic in Hungarywitchcraft and sorcery in HungaryWitchcraftfamiliarscounter-reformation Italytreasure huntingheresymedicinepriestslove magicSpainProtestant demonologysorcerysuperstitionwitch-hunting in Debrecen/Bihar countyCalvinist demonology in HungaryJesuitscensorshipwitch-huntsdemonologyMontesano Marinaauth166771BOOK9910404081103321Witchcraft, Demonology and Magic3035496UNINA