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Beyond the witch trials [[electronic resource] ] : witchcraft and magic in Enlightenment Europe / / edited by Owen Davies and Willem de Blécourt
| Beyond the witch trials [[electronic resource] ] : witchcraft and magic in Enlightenment Europe / / edited by Owen Davies and Willem de Blécourt |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Manchester ; ; New York, : Manchester University Press |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (viii, 211 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
| Disciplina | 133.4309409033 |
| Altri autori (Persone) |
DaviesOwen <1969->
BlécourtWillem de |
| Soggetto topico |
Witchcraft - Europe - History - 18th century
Enlightenment - Europe |
| ISBN |
1-5261-3726-7
1-280-73458-2 9786610734580 1-84779-100-X |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | List of contributors --Introduction: beyond the witch trials --Marking (dis)order: witchcraft and the symbolics of hierarchy in late seventeenth- and early eighteenth-century Finland --Pro exoneratione sua propria coscientia: magic, witchcraft and Church in early eighteenth-century Capua --From illusion to disenchantment: Feijoo versus the ‘falsely possessed’ in eighteenth-century Spain --Responses to witchcraft in late seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Sweden --Witchcraft and magic in eighteenth-century Scotland --The Devil’s pact: a male strategy --Public infidelity and private belief? The discourse of spirits in Enlightenment Bristol --‘Evil people’: a late eighteenth-century Dutch witch doctor and his clients --The archaeology of counter-witchcraft and popular magic --The dissemination of magical knowledge in Enlightenment Germany --Index. |
| Record Nr. | UNISA-996207154003316 |
| Manchester ; ; New York, : Manchester University Press | ||
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| Lo trovi qui: Univ. di Salerno | ||
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Werewolf legends / / Willem de Blécourt, Mirjam Mencej, editors
| Werewolf legends / / Willem de Blécourt, Mirjam Mencej, editors |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cham, Switzerland : , : Palgrave Macmillan, an imprint of Springer Nature Switzerland AG, , [2023] |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (xiii, 375 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Collana | Palgrave Historical Studies in Witchcraft and Magic |
| Soggetto topico |
Folklore - Europe
Legends - Europe Werewolves - Europe - History |
| ISBN | 3-031-06082-2 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| 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. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910746951503321 |
| Cham, Switzerland : , : Palgrave Macmillan, an imprint of Springer Nature Switzerland AG, , [2023] | ||
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| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Witchcraft continued [[electronic resource] ] : popular magic in modern Europe / / edited by Willem de Blécourt and Owen Davies
| Witchcraft continued [[electronic resource] ] : popular magic in modern Europe / / edited by Willem de Blécourt and Owen Davies |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | 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 |
| Altri autori (Persone) |
BlécourtWillem de
DaviesOwen <1969-> |
| Soggetto topico |
Witchcraft - Europe - History - 19th century
Witchcraft - Europe - History - 20th century |
| ISBN |
1-5261-3797-6
1-280-73457-4 9786610734573 1-84779-099-2 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| 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. |
| Record Nr. | UNISA-996207147903316 |
| Manchester ; ; New York, : Manchester University Press, : Distributed exclusively in the USA by Palgrave, 2004 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. di Salerno | ||
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