Research Catalog

Title

Witchcraft continued : popular magic in modern Europe / edited by Willem de Blécourt and Owen Davies.

Publication

Manchester ; New York : Manchester University Press : Distributed exclusively in the USA by Palgrave, 2004.

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Additional Authors

• Blécourt, Willem de.
• Davies, Owen, 1969-

Description

viii, 219 p.; 24 cm.

Summary

"Witchcraft continued provides a collection of essays on the nature and understanding of witchcraft and magic in European society over the last two centuries. It innovatively brings together the interests of historians with the fieldwork of anthropologists and sociologists on the continued relevance of witch beliefs." "The book covers England, the Netherlands, Spain, Italy, Germany, France, Finland, Transylvania and Northern Ireland. It examines the experience of and attitudes towards witchcraft, demonstrating the widespread fear of witches amongst the masses during the nineteenth century, and the more restricted relevance of witchcraft in the twentieth century, along with the rise of the folklore movement."--BOOK JACKET.

Subject

• Witchcraft > Europe > History > 19th century
• Witchcraft > Europe > History > 20th century
• Hekserij
• Magie
• Volksgeloof
• 4

Genre/Form

History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

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.

ISBN

• 0719066581
• 071906659X (pbk.)

LCCN

^^2005270133

OCLC

56465533

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library