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Witchcraft : the heritage of a heresy / Hans Sebald.
- Title
- Witchcraft : the heritage of a heresy / Hans Sebald.
- Author
- Sebald, Hans.
- Publication
- New York : Elsevier, c1978.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Use in library | GER.AU.REL. Se 21 w | Off-site |
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- Description
- x, 262 p. : ill.; 23 cm.
- Subject
- Note
- Includes indexes.
- Bibliography (note)
- Bibliography: p. [245]-249.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- I. The setting of witchcraft. The contours of witchcraft ; Land and people of Franconian Switzerland ; The supernatural -- substance and sustenance to the peasants ; The witch -- evolution of a satanist. -- II. The working of witchcraft. The witch in modernity ; The witch and the healer ; The book and the devil ; Cases of curse and cure ; The dimensions of witchcraft. -- III. The meaning of witchcraft. The essence of magic ; Witchcraft in historical context ; Witchcraft as response to human needs ; Witchcraft, drugs and mental illness ; Witchcraft as cultural symbolism ; Witchcraft and theology ; The vagaries of magic.
- ISBN
- 0444990593
- 0444990585. (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- ^^^78010441^//r944
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library