LEADER 03736nam 2200577Ia 450 001 9910807648003321 005 20240416110113.0 010 $a1-4237-1749-X 010 $a615-5053-56-1 024 7 $a10.1515/9786155053566 035 $a(CKB)4100000007803136 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3137180 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3137180 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10118480 035 $a(OCoLC)697624199 035 $a(DE-B1597)633544 035 $a(DE-B1597)9786155053566 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000007803136 100 $a20050802d2005 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 00$aCommunicating with the Spirits /$fedited by E?va Po?cs and Ga?bor Klaniczay 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aBudapest ;$aNew York $cCentral European University Press$d2005 215 $a1 online resource (1 volume) 225 1 $aDemons, spirits, witches ;$vv. 1 300 $aIncludes index. 311 $a963-7326-13-8 327 $tFrontmatter --$tTABLE OF CONTENTS --$tList of Illustrations --$tIntroduction --$tPart I Discernment of Spirits and Possession --$tBreath, Heart, Guts: The Body and Spirits in the Middle Ages --$tNon sunt nisi phantasiae et imaginationes: a Medieval Attempt at Explaining Demons --$tDiscerning Spirits in Early Modern Europe --$tMystics or Visionaries? Discernment of Spirits in the First Part of the Seventeenth Century in France --$tPossession Phenomena, Possession-systems. Some East-Central European Examples --$tPart II Contacts with the Other World --$tHow Waldensians Became Witches: Heretics and Their Journey to the Other World --$tHosting the Dead: Thanotopic Aspects of the Irish Sidhe --$tVisions of the Other World as Narrated in Contemporary Belief Legends from Resia --$tPart III Divination, Shamanism --$tTrance Prophets and Diviners in the Middle Ages --$tShamanism in Medieval Scandinavian Literature --$tThe King, the Cat, and the Chaplain. King Christian IV?s Encounter with the Sami Shamans of Northern Norway and Northern Russia in 1599 --$tList of Contributors --$tIndex 330 $aFocuses on the problem of communication with the other world: the phenomenon of spirit possession and its changing historical interpretations, the imaginary schemes elaborated for giving accounts of the journeys to the other world, for communicating with the dead, and finally the historical archetypes of this kind of religious manifestation?trance prophecy, divination, and shamanism.Recognized historians and ethnologists analyze the relationship, coexistence and conflicts of popular belief systems, Judeo-Christian mythology and demonology in medieval and modern Europe. The essays address links between rites and beliefs, folklore and literature; the legacy of various pre-Christian mythologies; the syncretic forms of ancient, medieval and modern belief- and rite-systems; "pure" examples from religious-ethnological research outside Europe to elucidate European problems. 410 0$aDemons, spirits, witches ;$vv. 1. 606 $aWitchcraft$zEurope$xHistory$vCongresses 606 $aDemonology$zEurope$xHistory$vCongresses 606 $aFolklore$zEurope$xHistory$vCongresses 610 $aAnthropology, Demonology, Folklore, Religion, Witchcraft. 615 0$aWitchcraft$xHistory 615 0$aDemonology$xHistory 615 0$aFolklore$xHistory 676 $a133.4/094 701 $aPo?cs$b E?va$01245692 701 $aKlaniczay$b Ga?bor$0425956 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910807648003321 996 $aCommunicating with the Spirits$94019727 997 $aUNINA