Werewolf legends / / Willem de Blécourt, Mirjam Mencej, editors

• Pubblicazione: Cham, Switzerland : , : Palgrave Macmillan, an imprint of Springer Nature Switzerland AG, , [2023]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xiii, 375 pages) : illustrations, maps
• Soggetto topico: Folklore - Europe; Legends - Europe; Werewolves - Europe - History
• Persona (resp. second.): BlécourtWillem de; MencejMirjam
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 1. Werewolf legends: False, fabricated and altogether absent: Fragments of a nineteenth-century historiography / Willem de Blécourt -- 2. You are a w erewolf! Swedish legends in international perspective / Willem de Blécourt -- 3. Of wolf-belts, hungry farmhands and tattered skirts: The werewolf in North German legends / Petra Himstedt-Vaid -- 4. Wolf-shaped otherness: Finnish werewolf legends reflecting suspension from human community / Kaarina Koski and Pasi Enges -- 5. Werewolves in Lithuanian folklore sources of the end of the nineteenth to the twentieth century / Jūratė Šlekonytė -- 6. Legends and beliefs about werewolves among Eastern Slavs: Areal characteristics of motifs / Marina Valentsova -- 7. The werewolf as the Slavic and Germanic "other": Czech werewolf legends between oral and popular culture / Petr Janeček -- 8. Werewolves as social others: Contemporary oral narratives in rural Bosnia and Herzegovina / Mirjam Mencej -- 9. When the "other" is one of us: Narrative construction of werewolf identity in Romanian Western Carpathians at the end of the twentieth century / Laura Jiga Iliescu -- 10. A strange kind of man among us: Beliefs and narratives about werewolves in Southern Italy / Vito Carrassi -- 11. Werewolves in the Western Alps / Fabio Armand -- 12. Running the fate: Portuguese Werewolf legends and memorates / Paulo Correia -- 13. From type to cluster: Werewolf legends in the Netherlands / Willem de Blécourt -- 14. The werewolf of Hull / Deborah Hyde.
• Titolo autorizzato: Werewolf Legends
• ISBN: 3-031-06082-2
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910746951503321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Palgrave historical studies in witchcraft and magic.