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Veröffentlichung:	August 2018
Genre:	Geschichte / Politik / Kultur
	B / Central Europe / Civilization—History / Cultural History / Europe, Central—History / Europe, Eastern—History / Europe—History—1492- / European History / folklore;anthropology;religion;superstition;magic / History / History of Early Modern Europe / History of Germany and Central Europe / History of Modern Europe / History of other geographical groupings and regions / History of specific lands / Russia—History / Russian, Soviet, and East European History / Social & cultural history / Social and cultural history
ISBN:	9783319854717
EAN-Code:	9783319854717
Verlag:	Springer International Publishing
Einband:	Kartoniert
Sprache:	English
Serie:	Palgrave Historical Studies in Witchcraft and Magic
Dimensionen:	H 210 mm / B 148 mm / D 24 mm
Gewicht:	550 gr
Seiten:	428
Zus. Info:	Paperback
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Inhalt:

This book provides a selection of studies on witchcraft and demonology by those involved in an interdisciplinary research group begun in Hungary thirty years ago. They examine urban and rural witchcraft conflicts from early modern times to the present, from a region hitherto rarely taken into consideration in witchcraft research. Special attention is given to healers, midwives, and cunning folk, including archaic sorcerer figures such as the táltos; whose ambivalent role is analysed in social, legal, medical and religious contexts. This volume examines how waves of persecution emerged and declined, and how witchcraft was decriminalised. Fascinating case-studies on vindictive witch-hunters, quarrelling neighbours, rivalling midwives, cunning shepherds, weather magician impostors, and exorcist Franciscan friars provide a colourful picture of Hungarian and Transylvanian folk beliefs and mythologies, as well as insights into historical and contemporary issues.