Witchcraft, healing, and popular diseases / edited with introductions by Brian P. Levack.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Levack, Brian P.

Series:

New perspectives on witchcraft, magic, and demonology ; v. 5

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Medicine, Magic, mystic, and spagiric.

Traditional medicine.

Witchcraft--History.

Witchcraft.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (341 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York : Routledge, 2001.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Witchcraft and magical beliefs have captivated historians and artists for millennia, and stimulated an extraordinary amount of research among scholars in a wide range of disciplines. This new collection, from the editor of the highly acclaimed 1992 set, Articles on Witchcraft, Magic, and Demonology, extends the earlier volumes by bringing together the most important articles of the past twenty years and covering the profound changes in scholarly perspective over the past two decades. Featuring thematically organized papers from a broad spectrum of publications, the volumes in

Contents:

New Perspectives on Witchcraft, Magic and DemonologyWitchcraft, Healing, and Popular Diseases; Copyright; Contents; Introduction; Folk Medicine as Part of a Larger Concept Complex; Healing Charms in Use in England and Wales, 1700-1950; From Cunning Man to Natural Healer; Historians as Demonologists: The Myth of the Midwife Witch; Witch Doctors, Soothsayers, and Priests. On Cunning Folk in European Historiography and Tradition; On the Trail of the Witches: Wise Women, Midwives and the European Witch Hunts

The Rational Witchfinder: Conscience, Demonological Naturalism, and Popular SuperstitionsWitchcraft and Popular Religion in Early Modern Rothenburg ob der Tauber; Magical Healing, Love Magic, and the Inquisition in Late Sixteenth-Century Modena; The Church, theDevil and theHealing Activities of Living Saints in the Kingdom of Naples after the Council of Trent; Witchcraft Beliefs and Social Control in Seventeenth-Century Malta; Magic, Popular Medicine, and Gender in Seventeenth-Century Mexico: The Case of Isabel de Montoya

Witchcraft in Portugal during the Eighteenth Century, Analysed through the Accusations of the Tribunal do Santo Oficio deÉvoraShamanistic Elements in Central European Witchcraft; Indian Shamans and English Witches in Seventeenth-Century New England; Shaman, Healer, Witch. Comparing Shamanism with Franconian Folk Magic; Acknowledgments

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

ISBN:

1-136-53939-5

1-283-71384-5

0-203-05584-5

1-136-53932-8

9780203055847

OCLC:

817888197