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Witchcraft continued : popular magic in modern Europe /
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.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Manchester ;
Manchester University Press :
2004.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction : witchcraft continued / Willem de Blécourt and Owen Davies
- A case of witchcraft assault in early nineteenth-century England as ostensive action / Stephen Mitchell
- Witchcraft, witch doctors and the fight against 'superstition' in nineteenth-century Germany / Nils Freytag
- The witch and the detective : mid-Victorian stories and beliefs / Susan Hoyle
- Narrative and the social dynamics of magical harm in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Finland / Laura Stark
- Boiling chickens and burning cats : witchcraft in the western Netherlands, 1850-1925 / Willem de Blécourt
- Witchcraft accusations in France, 1850-1990 / Owen Davies
- Magical healing in Spain (1875-1936) : medical pluralism and the search for hegemony / Enrique Perdiguero
- Witchcraft, healing and vernacular magic in Italy / Sabina Magliocco
- Curse, maleficium, divination : witchcraft on the borderline of religion and magic / Éva Pócs
- Spooks and spooks : black magic and bogeymen in Northern Ireland, 1973-74 / Richard Jenkins.