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Witchcraft continued : popular magic in modern Europe / edited by Willem de Blecourt and Owen Davies.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Manchester Religious Studies
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Witchcraft--Europe--History--19th century.
- Witchcraft.
- Witchcraft--Europe--History--20th century.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (viii, 219 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Manchester : Manchester University Press, [2018]
- Language Note:
- In English.
- System Details:
- data file
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International license (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0).
- Description based on print record.
- ISBN:
- 9786610734573
- 9781526137975
- 1526137976
- 9781280734571
- 1280734574
- 9781847790996
- 1847790992
- OCLC:
- 232157340
- Access Restriction:
- Unrestricted online access
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