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Witchcraft in Romania / Ioan Pop-Curșeu, Ștefana Pop-Curșeu.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Pop-Curșeu, Ioan, 1978- author.
- Pop-Curșeu, Ștefana, author.
- Series:
- Palgrave historical studies in witchcraft and magic
- Palgrave Historical Studies in Witchcraft and Magic
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Witchcraft--Romania.
- Witchcraft.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource
- Place of Publication:
- Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, 2023.
- Contents:
- Intro
- Acknowledgements
- Contents
- List of Figures
- List of Tables
- Chapter 1: Introduction: Who Are the Romanians and How to Study Witchcraft in Romania?
- Bibliography
- Part I: Trials in Earthly Life
- Chapter 2: Witchcraft Acts: Condemnation of Sorcery in the Codes of Law
- Chapter 3: Trials, Persecutions, Executions (the Sixteenth-Nineteenth Centuries)
- Transylvania and the Banat
- Moldavia, 1761
- Wallachia, 1586-1859
- Synthetic Analysis and Parallel Risk-Management Models
- The Perceived Risk of Witchcraft at an Institutional Level
- The Perceived Risk of Witchcraft at the Community Level
- The Perceived Risk of Witchcraft at an Intrapersonal Level
- Chapter 4: New Elites, New Paradigms of Rationality (Eighteenth-Nineteenth Centuries): Against the Superstitions of the Romanians
- Part II: Trials in the Afterlife
- Chapter 5: Canonical Versus Apocryphal: Religious Texts Condemning Witchcraft
- Celestial Tollbooths
- Apocalyptic Texts
- Chapter 6: Doomsday and Hellfire: Iconographic Representations of Witchcraft in Last Judgment Compositions
- Geographical, Historical and Linguistic Remarks
- Iconographic Types
- The Witch in the River or the Sea of Fire
- Satanic Ridings: The Devil on the Witch and Vice Versa
- The Manna Thief, the Milk Witch, the Enchantress and Their Buckets
- The Manna Thief with a Bucket on Her Head: The Defecating Devils
- Variations of This Type: How Does the Witch Hold the Bucket?
- The Woman with the Goblet of (Healing) Potions
- Practitioners of Magic Are Legion
- Other (Archaic) Representations
- The Woman Who "worships" the Devil
- The Woman with the Mirror
- Between Tradition and Innovation: Modern Representations of Magical Agents
- Diversity of Punishments: Imagining or Practicing Torture?
- The Woman Beaten by the Devil
- The Woman with Her Tongue Pulled Out by the Devil
- The Woman Whose Face Is Bitten by Snakes
- Punishments by Iron and Fire
- Chapter 7: Conclusions
- General Bibliography
- Index of Persons and Places
- Subject Index
- Notes:
- Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.
- Print version record.
- Other Format:
- Print version: Pop-Curșeu, Ioan, 1978- author. Witchcraft in Romania
- ISBN:
- 9783031152221
- 3031152220
- Publisher Number:
- 99992479523
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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