CiNii 図書 - Witchcraft continued : popular magic in modern Europe

The study of witchcraft accusations in Europe during the period after the end of the witch trials is still in its infancy. Witches were scratched in England, swum in Germany, beaten in the Netherlands and shot in France. The continued widespread belief in witchcraft and magic in nineteenth- and twentieth-century France has received considerable academic attention. The book discusses the extent and nature of witchcraft accusations in the period and provides a general survey of the published work on the subject for an English audience. It explores the presence of magical elements in everyday life during the modern period in Spain. The book provides a general overview of vernacular magical beliefs and practices in Italy from the time of unification to the present, with particular attention to how these traditions have been studied. By functioning as mechanisms of social ethos and control, narratives of magical harm were assured a place at the very heart of rural Finnish social dynamics into the twentieth century. The book draws upon over 300 narratives recorded in rural Finland in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries that provide information concerning the social relations, tensions and strategies that framed sorcery and the counter-magic employed against it. It is concerned with a special form of witchcraft that is practised only amongst Hungarians living in Transylvania. -- .

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Introduction: Witchcraft continued - Willem de Blecourt and Owen Davies
1. A case of withcraft assault in early nineteenth-century England as ostensive action - Stephen Mitchell
2. Witchcraft, witch doctors and the fight against 'superstition' in nineteenth-century Germany - Nils Freytag
3. The witch and the detective: Mid-Victorian stories and beliefs - Susan Hoyle
4. Narrative and the social dynamics of magical harm in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Finland - Laura Stark
5. Boiling chickens and burning cats: Witchcraft in the western Netherlands 1850-1925 - Willem de Blecourt
6. Witchcraft accusations in France 1850-1990 - Owen Davies
7. Magical healing in Spain (1875-1936): Medical pluralism in the search for hegemony - Enrique Perdiguero
8. Witchcraft, healing and vernacular magic in Italy - Sabina Magliocco
9. Curse, maleficium, divination: Witchcraft on the borderline of religion and magic - Eva Pocs
10. Spooks and Spooks: Black magic and bogeymen in Northern Ireland 1973-74 - Richard Jenkins
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