LEADER 04144nam 2200997z- 450 001 9910404081103321 005 20231214132852.0 010 $a3-03928-960-8 035 $a(CKB)4100000011302327 035 $a(oapen)https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/62774 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000011302327 100 $a20202102d2020 |y 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurmn|---annan 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aWitchcraft, Demonology and Magic 210 $cMDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute$d2020 215 $a1 electronic resource (160 p.) 311 $a3-03928-959-4 330 $aWitchcraft 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. 610 $amagic 610 $adivination 610 $areligious history 610 $aThomas Hobbes 610 $aBavaria 610 $aclassical culture 610 $afolklore 610 $aCatholic reform 610 $adissolution of the monasteries 610 $aanimals 610 $aFranciscan and Dominican friars 610 $aEarly Modern History 610 $afriars 610 $ademonic possession 610 $aTrier 610 $aAdriaan Koerbagh 610 $agynecology 610 $abiblical exegesis 610 $aFranconia 610 $amonasticism 610 $awitch-hunting in Hungary 610 $aexorcism 610 $aItaly 610 $aconvent cases 610 $aGermany 610 $amonks 610 $apopular belief 610 $aritual magic 610 $aInquisition 610 $adevil 610 $amedia 610 $acounter-reformation 610 $ainquisition 610 $aHoly Office 610 $aEnglish reformation 610 $awitch trials 610 $aspells 610 $aFrance 610 $awitchcraft 610 $apopular/vernacular magic in Hungary 610 $awitchcraft and sorcery in Hungary 610 $aWitchcraft 610 $afamiliars 610 $acounter-reformation Italy 610 $atreasure hunting 610 $aheresy 610 $amedicine 610 $apriests 610 $alove magic 610 $aSpain 610 $aProtestant demonology 610 $asorcery 610 $asuperstition 610 $awitch-hunting in Debrecen/Bihar county 610 $aCalvinist demonology in Hungary 610 $aJesuits 610 $acensorship 610 $awitch-hunts 610 $ademonology 700 $aMontesano$b Marina$4auth$0166771 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910404081103321 996 $aWitchcraft, Demonology and Magic$93035496 997 $aUNINA