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Witchcraft, Healing, and Popular Diseases : New Perspectives on Witchcraft, Magic, and Demonology.
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,...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Hoboken :
Taylor and Francis,
2012.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.