Witchcraft continued : : popular magic in modern Europe / / edited by Willem de Blecourt and Owen Davies.
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.
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| Year of Publication: | 2004 |
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Manchester Religious Studies
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (viii, 219 pages) :; digital, PDF file(s). |
| Notes: | Description based upon print version of record. |
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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.