02995 am 22006013u 450 99620714790331620221206165256.01-5261-3797-61-280-73457-497866107345731-84779-099-2(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(EXLCZ)99100000000024482120050119d2004 uy 0engurcn#---|||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierWitchcraft continued[electronic resource] popular magic in modern Europe /edited by Willem de Blécourt and Owen DaviesManchester ;New York Manchester University Press Distributed exclusively in the USA by Palgrave20041 online resource (viii, 219 pages) digital file(s)Description 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 centuryWitchcraftHistoryWitchcraftHistory133.4309409034Blécourt Willem de800734Davies Owen1969-800733MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK996207147903316Witchcraft continued2030752UNISA