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Christian Demonology and Popular Mythology /

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...

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Autor principal: Pócs, Ã#x89;va
Otros Autores: Pócs, Éva, Klaniczay, Gábor
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Hungary : Central European University Press, 2006.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • TABLE OF CONTENTS; Contents of the first and the third volume; Introduction; 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; 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 InteractionChurch demonology and popular beliefs in early modern Sweden; 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 ReligionLIST OF CONTRIBUTORS; INDEX.