Witchcraft continued [[electronic resource] ] : popular magic in modern Europe / / edited by Willem de Blécourt and Owen Davies

• Pubblicazione: Manchester ; ; New York, : Manchester University Press, : Distributed exclusively in the USA by Palgrave, 2004
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (viii, 219 pages) : digital file(s)
• Disciplina: 133.4309409034
• Soggetto topico: Witchcraft - Europe - History - 19th century; Witchcraft - Europe - History - 20th century
• Altri autori: BlécourtWillem 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.: 996207147903316
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. di Salerno