Christian demonology and popular mythology : demons, spirits and witches
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Christian demonology and popular mythology : demons, spirits and witches
(Demons, spirits, witches, v. 2)
Central European University Press, 2006
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description
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 on the divergence between Western and Eastern evolution, on the different relationship of learned demonology to popular belief systems in the two parts of Europe. It discusses the conflict of saints, healers, seers, shamans with the representatives of evil; the special function of escorting, protecting, possessing, harming and healing spirits; the role of the dead, the ghosts, of pre-Christian, Jewish and Christian spirit-world, the antagonism of the devil and the saint.
Table of Contents
List of Illustrations
Introduction by Gabor Klaniczay and Eva Pocs
Part I
Learned Demonology, Images of the Devil
Benedek Lang, Demons in Krakow, and Image Magic in a Magical Handbook
Anna Kuznetsova, "A Wall of Bronze" or Demons versus Saints: Whose Victory?
Erzsebet Tatai, An Iconographical Approach to Representations of the Devil in Medieval Hungary
Gyoergy E. Szonyi, Talking With Demons. Early Modern Theories and Practice
Eva Szacsvay, Protestant Devil Figures in Hungary
Ulrika Wolf-Knuts, The Devil and Birthgiving
Part II
Exchanges between Elite and Popular Concepts
Karen P. Smith, Serpent-damsels and Dragon-slayers: Overlapping Divinities in a Medieval Tradition
Wanda Wyporska, Jewish, Noble, German, or Peasant? - The Devil in Early Modern Poland
Jonas Liliequist, Sexual Encounters with Spirits and Demons in Early Modern Sweden: Popular and Learned Concepts in Conflict and Interaction
Soili-Maria Eklund, Church Demonology and Popular Beliefs in Early Modern Sweden
Part III
Evil Magic and Demons in East European and Asian Folklore
Ilana Rosen, Saintly and Sympathetic Magic in the Lore of the Jews of Carpatho-Russia Between the Two World Wars
Monika Kropej, Magic as Reflected in Slovenian Folk Tradition and Popular Healing Today
L'upcho S. Risteski, Categories of the "Evil Dead" in Macedonian Folk Religion
Anna Plotnikova, Balkan Demons' Protecting Places
Vesna Petreska, Demons of Fate in Macedonian Folk Beliefs
Zmago Smitek, Gog and Magog in the Slovenian Folk Tradition
Agnes Birtalan, Systematization of the Concept of Demonic and Evil in Mongolian Folk Religion
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