Deadly words : witchcraft in the bocage / Jeanne Favret-Saada ; translated by Catherine Cullen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Favret-Saada, Jeanne.

Standardized Title:

Mots, la mort, les sorts. English

Language:

English

French

Subjects (All):

Witchcraft--France.

Witchcraft.

France.

Physical Description:

vii, 273 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Cambridge [Eng.] : New York : Cambridge University Press, [1980]

Contents:

Part I There Must Be a Subject

Section 1 The Way Things Are Said

1 The mirror-image of an academic

2 Words spoken with insistence

3 When words wage war

Section 2 Between 'Caught' and Catching

1 Those who haven't been caught can't talk about it

2 A name added to a position

3 Taking one's distances from whom (or what)?

Section 3 When the Text Has its Own Foreword

Part II The Realm of Secrecy

Section 4 Someone Must Be Credulous

Section 5 Tempted By the Impossible

Section 6 The Less One Talks, The Less One Is Caught

Part III Telling It All

Section 7 If You Could Do Something

1 A bewitched in hospital

2 She a magician?

3 The misunderstanding

4 Impotent against impotence

Section 8 The Omnipotent Witch

1 The imperishable bastard

2 Speaking

3 Touching

4 Looking

5 A death at the crossroads

6 Ex post facto

Section 9 Taking Over

1 Inexplicable misfortunes

2 The other witch

Section 10 To Return Evil for Evil

1 Madame Marie from Alençon

2 Madame Marie from Izé

3 If you feel capable

Section 11 Mid-way Speculations

1 Concepts and presuppositions

2 Attack by witchcraft and its warding off.

Notes:

Translation of Les mots, la mort, les sorts.

Includes index.

Bibliography: pages 272-273.

ISBN:

0521223172

OCLC:

6015792