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The magical and sacred medical world / edited by EÌva PoÌcs.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Traditional medicine.
- Traditional medicine--Religious aspects.
- Magic--History.
- Magic.
- History.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xvi, 525 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Newcastle upon Tyne, UK : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2019.
- Contents:
- 1 Magical and Supernatural Causes of Illnesses
- "Hag-riding": Demons of Desire or Symptoms of Disease? Medical Theories and Popular Experiences of the Nightmare in Premodern England p. 2 / Janine Rivière
- Burnt without Fire: The Illness Demon in Bulgarian Late Medieval Magical Texts p. 37 / Svetlana Tsonkova
- World view, Religion and Disease in Magyarfalu p. 59 / Laura Iancu
- Magical Causes of Illnesses and Their Cures in Eighteenth-Century Ukraine p. 78 / Kateryna Dysa
- Georg Tallar and the 1753 Vampire Hunt: Administration, Medicine and the Returning Dead in the Habsburg Banat p. 93 / Ádám Mézes
- "She Condemned Me, so that I Die..." Wrongdoing, Punishment, Disease: Individual and Communal Explanations p. 137 / József Gagyi
- 2 Physicians, Magicians, Healing Priests
- Divination by Spirits and Spirit Mediumship in the Middle Ages p. 156 / Christa Agnes Tuczay
- Understanding Medical Knowledge and Practice: Strategies for the Reading of Early Modern Norwegian Manuscripts p. 176 / Ane Ohrvik
- Talking to Vepsian tedai: Different Roles, Concepts, Worlds p. 192 / Madis Arukask
- Magic and Counter-Magic and the Social Position of the Bru Shaman-sorcerer (Central Vietnamese Highlands) p. 211 / Gábor Vargyas
- The Quran, Spirits and Bioenergy: On Religious Healing in Uzbekistan p. 228 / Krisztina Kehl-Bodrogi
- Benedictions Serving Early Modern Benedictine Medicine p. 246 / Dániel Bárth
- Exorcism in the Trinity-Sergius Lavra p. 265 / Tünde Komáromi
- 3 Punishing and Healing Saints, Miraculous Healings
- Mythical Beings Punishing the Breaking of Taboos on Spinning p. 298 / Mirjam Mencej
- Divine Healers in Romanian Manuscript Charms (17th-19th Centuries) p. 330 / Emanuela Timotin
- Dream Healing: The Nocturnal World of Healing and Bewitchment p. 343 / Éva Pócs
- Miraculous Healing at Sacred Places: Procedures and Narratives p. 377 / Albena Georgieva
- 4 Healing Methods, Medicaments
- An Attempt to Identify Homer's "Moly" as Mandrake p. 400 / Nora Zergi
- Telesma and Stoicheion: Magical Statues in Byzantium p. 405 / Anna Judit Tóth
- Pork as a Wonder Drug, or Religious Taboo as Magical Medicine p. 435 / Ildikó Csepregi
- Soldiers of Christ on Earth and in Heavenly Jerusalem: Psychotronics: A Contemporary Esoteric Healing System p. 448 / Judit Kis-Halas
- Integrating Ancient and Modern Healing Concepts in Tandem Hypnotherapy p. 494 / József Pál Vas and Noémi Császár.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Edward Potts Cheyney Memorial Fund.
- ISBN:
- 1527522520
- 9781527522527
- OCLC:
- 1078425040
- Publisher Number:
- 99980048604
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