Witchcraft continued : : popular magic in modern Europe / / edited by Willem de Blecourt and Owen Davies.

• TeilnehmendeR: Blecourt, Willem de.; Davies, Owen, 1969-
• Year of Publication: 2004
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Manchester Religious Studies
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (viii, 219 pages) :; digital, PDF file(s).
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

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.

Table of 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.