Christian Demonology and Popular Mythology / / ed. by Gábor Klaniczay, Éva Pócs.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Central European University Press eBook-Package 2013-1998
• MitwirkendeR: Birtalan, Ágnes,; Klaniczay, Gábor,; Kropej, Monika,; Kuznetsova, Anna,; Liliequist, Jonas,; Láng, Benedek,; Olli, Soili-Maria,; Petreska, Vesna,; Plotnikova, Anna,; Pócs, Éva,; Risteski, L’upcho S.,; Rosen, Ilana,; Smith, Karen P.,; Szacsvay, Éva,; Szőnyi, György E.,; Tatai, Erzsébet,; Wolf-Knuts, Ulrika,; Wyporska, Wanda,; Šmitek, Zmago,
• HerausgeberIn: Klaniczay, Gábor,; Pócs, Éva,
• Place / Publishing House: Budapest ;, New York : : Central European University Press, , [2022]; ©2006
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: Demons, Spirits, Witches ; 2
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (292 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; TABLE OF CONTENTS --; Contents of the first and the third volume --; Introduction --; Part I Learned Demonology, Images of the Devil --; Demons in Krakow, and Image Magic in a Magical Handbook --; “A Wall of Bronze” or Demons versus Saints: Whose Victory? --; An Iconographical Approach to Representations of the Devil in Medieval Hungary --; Talking With Demons. Early Modern Theories and Practice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . --; Protestant Devil Figures in Hungary --; The Devil and Birthgiving --; Part II Exchanges between Elite and Popular Concepts --; Serpent-damsels and Dragon-slayers: Overlapping Divinities in a Medieval Tradition --; Jewish, Noble, German, or Peasant? — The Devil in Early Modern Poland --; Sexual Encounters with Spirits and Demons in Early Modern Sweden: Popular and Learned Concepts in Conflict and Interaction --; Church Demonology and Popular Beliefs in Early Modern Sweden --; Part III Evil Magic and Demons in East European and Asian Folklore --; Saintly and Sympathetic Magic in the Lore of the Jews of Carpatho-Russia Between the Two World Wars --; Magic as Reflected in Slovenian Folk Tradition and Popular Healing Today --; Categories of the “Evil Dead” in Macedonian Folk Religion --; Balkan Demons’ Protecting Places --; Demons of Fate in Macedonian Folk Beliefs --; Gog and Magog in the Slovenian Folk Tradition --; Systematization of the Concept of Demonic and Evil in Mongolian Folk Religion --; List of Contributors --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9786155211010; 9783110780550
• DOI: 10.1515/9786155211010
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: ed. by Gábor Klaniczay, Éva Pócs.

The authors—recognized historians, ethnologists, folklorists coming from four continents—present the latest research findings on the relationship, coexistence and conflicts of popular belief systems, Judeo-Christian mythology and demonology in medieval and modern Europe. The present volume focuses on the divergence between Western and Eastern evolution, on the different relationship of learned demonology to popular belief systems in the two parts of Europe. It discusses the conflict of saints, healers, seers, shamans with the representatives of evil; the special function of escorting, protecting, possessing, harming and healing spirits; the role of the dead, the ghosts, of pre-Christian, Jewish and Christian spirit-world, the antagonism of the devil and the saint.