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Télécharger le livre :  The Myth of the Werewolf
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The Myth of the Werewolf


Roger Bartra


This is a historical and anthropological study of the myth of the werewolf aimed at reflecting on the metamorphoses of evil and understanding the long evolution of a mythical structure. Legends and folklore allow us to explore the brutal bestiality of a figure loaded...

Parution : 2024-12-23
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Télécharger le livre :  Cursing, Crisis and Customary Knowledge in Early Modern English Townships
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Cursing, Crisis and Customary Knowledge in Early Modern English Townships


Karen O'brien


This book provides a historical and socio-legal investigation into the prevalence of litigation arising from cursing and interpersonal hostility in the under-explored region of Northwest England during a period of acute socio-economic crisis in the seventeenth century....

Parution : 2023-12-01
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Télécharger le livre :  Werewolf Legends
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Werewolf Legends


Willem De Blécourt , Mirjam Mencej


This book brings together contributions from anthropologists and folklorists on werewolf legends from all over Europe. Ranging from broad overviews to specific case studies, their chapters highlight the similarities and differences between werewolf narratives in...

Parution : 2023-09-30
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Télécharger le livre :  Witchcraft in Romania
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Witchcraft in Romania


?Tefana Pop-Cur?Eu , Ioan Pop-Curseu


This book provides a history of witchcraft in the territories that compose contemporary Romania, with a focus on the sixteenth to nineteenth centuries. The first part presents aspects of earthly justice, religious and secular, analysing the codes of law, trials and...

Parution : 2022-11-30
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Télécharger le livre :  Sources from the Dawn of the Great Witch Hunt in Lower Navarre, 1370
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Sources from the Dawn of the Great Witch Hunt in Lower Navarre, 1370


Ander Berrojalbiz


This book provides an annotated source edition of the only two extant documents related to the sorcery trial brought against Pes de Guoythie and Condesse de Beheythie in Lower Navarre, in 1370. It provides full transcriptions of both documents, and English translations...

Parution : 2022-11-30
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Télécharger le livre :  American Tabloid Media and the Satanic Panic, 1970-2000
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American Tabloid Media and the Satanic Panic, 1970-2000


Sarah A. Hughes


This book examines the “satanic panic” of the 1980s as an essential part of the growing relationship between tabloid media and American conservative politics in the 1980s. It argues that widespread fears of Satanism in a range of cultural institutions was indispensable...

Parution : 2021-10-27
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Télécharger le livre :  Building Magic
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Building Magic


Owen Davies , Ceri Houlbrook


This book redresses popular interpretations of concealed objects, enigmatically discovered within the fabric of post-medieval buildings. A wide variety of objects have been found up chimneybreasts, bricked up in walls, and concealed within recesses: old shoes, mummified...

Parution : 2021-09-10
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Télécharger le livre :  Premodern Beliefs and Witch Trials in a Swedish Province, 1669-1672
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Premodern Beliefs and Witch Trials in a Swedish Province, 1669-1672


Göran Malmstedt


This book examines the worldview and perceptions of reality that formed the setting for the witch trials held in the Swedish province of Bohuslän in 1669-1672. The first part of the book explores the conduct of the trials and provides, among other things, an analysis of...

Parution : 2021-07-15
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Télécharger le livre :  Narratives and Rituals of the Nightmare Hag in Scandinavian Folk Belief
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Narratives and Rituals of the Nightmare Hag in Scandinavian Folk Belief


Catharina Raudvere


This books explores varying conceptions of the Nightmare hag, mara, in Scandinavian folk belief. What began as observations of some startling narratives preserved in folklore archives where sex, violence and curses are recurring themes gradually led to...

Parution : 2021-02-26
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Télécharger le livre :  Reading the Salem Witch Child
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Reading the Salem Witch Child


Kristina West


This book discusses the role of children in the Salem witch trials through a close reading of the many and varied narratives of the trials, including court records, contemporary and historical documents, fiction, drama, and poetry. Taking a critical theory approach to...

Parution : 2020-11-17
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Télécharger le livre :  Women and Gender Issues in British Paganism, 1945–1990
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Women and Gender Issues in British Paganism, 1945–1990


Shai Feraro


This book explores the ways in which changing views on gender and the place of women in society during the latter half of the twentieth century affected women’s participation and standing within British Paganism. More specifically, it examines how British Wiccans and...

Parution : 2020-06-11
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Télécharger le livre :  Magic and Witchery in the Modern West
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Magic and Witchery in the Modern West


Ethan Doyle White , Shai Feraro


This book marks twenty years since the publication of Professor Ronald Hutton’s The Triumph of the Moon, a major contribution to the historical study of Wicca. Building on and celebrating Hutton’s pioneering work, the chapters in this volume explore a range of modern...

Parution : 2019-06-26
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Télécharger le livre :  Knowing Demons, Knowing Spirits in the Early Modern Period
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Knowing Demons, Knowing Spirits in the Early Modern Period


Michelle D. Brock , Richard Raiswell , David R. Winter


This book explores the manifold ways of knowing—and knowing about— preternatural beings such as demons, angels, fairies, and other spirits that inhabited and were believed to act in early modern European worlds. Its contributors examine how people across the social...

Parution : 2018-07-31
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Télécharger le livre :  Classical Culture and Witchcraft in Medieval and Renaissance Italy
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Classical Culture and Witchcraft in Medieval and Renaissance Italy


Marina Montesano


This book explores the relationships between ancient witchcraft and its modern incarnation, and by doing so fills an important gap in the historiography. It is often noted that stories of witchcraft circulated in Greek and Latin classical texts, and that treatises...

Parution : 2018-07-11
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Télécharger le livre :  The Magic of Coin-Trees from Religion to Recreation
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The Magic of Coin-Trees from Religion to Recreation


Ceri Houlbrook


This book traces the history of ritual landscapes in the British Isles, and the transition from religious practice to recreation, by focusing on a highly understudied exemplar: the coin-tree. These are trees imbued with magical properties into which coins have been...

Parution : 2018-04-23
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Télécharger le livre :  Medicine, Magic and Art in Early Modern Norway
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Medicine, Magic and Art in Early Modern Norway


Ane Ohrvik


This book addresses magical ideas and practices in early modern Norway. It examines a large corpus of Norwegian manuscripts from 1650-1850 commonly called Black Books which contained a mixture of recipes on medicine, magic, and art. Ane Ohrvik assesses the Black...

Parution : 2018-04-02
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Télécharger le livre :  Witchcraft and Demonology in Hungary and Transylvania
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Witchcraft and Demonology in Hungary and Transylvania


Gábor Klaniczay , Éva Pócs


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...

Parution : 2017-11-29
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Télécharger le livre :  Fairies, Demons, and Nature Spirits
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Fairies, Demons, and Nature Spirits


Michael Ostling


This book examines the fairies, demons, and nature spirits haunting the margins of Christendom from late-antique Egypt to early modern Scotland to contemporary Amazonia. Contributions from anthropologists, folklorists, historians and religionists explore Christian...

Parution : 2017-11-23
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Télécharger le livre :  Cultures of Witchcraft in Europe from the Middle Ages to the Present
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Cultures of Witchcraft in Europe from the Middle Ages to the Present


Jonathan Barry , Owen Davies , Cornelie Usborne


This volume is a collection based on the contributions to witchcraft studies of Willem de Blécourt, to whom it is dedicated, and who provides the opening chapter, setting out a methodological and conceptual agenda for the study of cultures of witchcraft (broadly...

Parution : 2017-10-09
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Télécharger le livre :  Contesting Orthodoxy in Medieval and Early Modern Europe
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Contesting Orthodoxy in Medieval and Early Modern Europe


Louise Nyholm Kallestrup , Raisa Maria Toivo


This book breaks with three common scholarly barriers of periodization, discipline and geography in its exploration of the related themes of heresy, magic and witchcraft. It sets aside constructed chronological boundaries, and in doing so aims to achieve a clearer...

Parution : 2017-02-04
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