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Titolo: | Witchcraft continued : popular magic in modern Europe / / edited by Willem de Blecourt and Owen Davies |
Pubblicazione: | Manchester ; ; New York, : Manchester University Press, : Distributed exclusively in the USA by Palgrave, 2004 |
Edizione: | 1st ed. |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (viii, 219 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
Disciplina: | 133.4309409034 |
Soggetto topico: | Witchcraft - Europe - History - 19th century |
Witchcraft - Europe - History - 20th century | |
Altri autori: | BlecourtWillem de DaviesOwen <1969-> |
Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Nota di contenuto: | 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. |
Sommario/riassunto: | 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. |
Titolo autorizzato: | Witchcraft continued |
ISBN: | 1-5261-3797-6 |
1-280-73457-4 | |
9786610734573 | |
1-84779-099-2 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910145016003321 |
Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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