Styrian Witches In European Perspective

Author : Mirjam Mencej
Publisher : Springer
Page : 454 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2017-01-27
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781137372505

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Styrian Witches in European Perspective by Mirjam Mencej Pdf

The book provides a comprehensive exploration of witchcraft beliefs and practices in the rural region of Eastern Slovenia. Based on field research conducted at the beginning of the twenty-first century, it examines witchcraft in the region from folkloristic, anthropological, as well as historical, perspectives. Witchcraft is presented as part of social reality, strongly related to misfortune and involved in social relationships. The reality of the ascribed bewitching deeds, psychological mechanisms that may help bewitchment to work, circumstances in which bewitchment narratives can be mobilised, reasons for a person to acquire a reputation of the witch in the entire community, and the role that unwitchers fulfilled in the community, are but a few of the many topics discussed. In addition, the intertwinement of social witchcraft with narratives of supernatural experiences, closely associated with supernatural beings of European folklore, forming part of the overall witchcraft discourse in the area, is explored.

Author : Jonathan Barry,Owen Davies,Cornelie Usborne
Publisher : Springer
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2017-10-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9783319637846

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Cultures of Witchcraft in Europe from the Middle Ages to the Present by Jonathan Barry,Owen Davies,Cornelie Usborne Pdf

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 defined) in Europe since the Middle Ages. It includes contributions from historians, anthropologists, literary scholars and folklorists who have collaborated closely with De Blécourt. Essays pick up some or all of the themes and approaches he pioneered, and apply them to cases which range in time and space across all the main regions of Europe since the thirteenth century until the present day. While some draw heavily on texts, others on archival sources, and others on field research, they all share a commitment to reconstructing the meaning and lived experience of witchcraft (and its related phenomena) to Europeans at all levels, respecting the many varieties and ambiguities in such meanings and experiences and resisting attempts to reduce them to master narratives or simple causal models. The chapter 'News from the Invisible World: The Publishing History of Tales of the Supernatural c.1660-1832' is available open access under a CC BY 4.0 license at link.springer.com.

Author : Éva Pócs
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 503 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2019-01-17
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781527526235

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Body, Soul, Spirits and Supernatural Communication by Éva Pócs Pdf

This book provides a nuanced picture of the notions of body and soul held by the peoples of Europe through the soul concepts associated with the Judeo-Christian tradition and other religions and denominations; and the alternative traditions preserved alongside Christianity in folklore collections, linguistic and literary records. The studies also emphasize the connections between these notions and beliefs related to death and the dead, as well as questions of communication between the human world and the spirit world. The essays here focus on the roles notions of the soul and the spirit world play in the everyday life, religion and mentality of various communities; their folklore and literary representations, as well as the narrative metaphors, motifs, topoi and genres of ideas about the soul and about supernatural communication, along with questions of the relationship between narratives and religious notions. This book will appeal to researchers and students of religion, mythology, folklore and the anthropology of religion, as well as general readers interested in the humanities.

Author : Willem de Blécourt,Mirjam Mencej
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2023-09-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9783031060823

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Werewolf Legends by Willem de Blécourt,Mirjam Mencej Pdf

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 different areas and attempt to explain them. The result of interaction between elite and popular culture, local and external influences, and nature and culture that lasted several centuries or even more, nineteenth- to twenty-first-century werewolf legends represent a kaleidoscope of the darker sides of human life.

Author : Owen Davies
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 365 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2023-08-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9780198873020

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Troubled by Faith by Owen Davies Pdf

The nineteenth century was a time of extraordinary scientific innovation, but with the rise of psychiatry, faiths and popular beliefs were often seen as signs of a diseased mind. By exploring the beliefs of asylum patients, we see the nineteenth century in a new light, with science, faith, and the supernatural deeply entangled in a fast-changing world. The birth of psychiatry in the early nineteenth-century fundamentally changed how madness was categorised and understood. A century on, their conceptions of mental illness continue to influence our views today. Beliefs and behaviour were divided up into the pathological and the healthy. The influence of religion and the supernatural became significant measures of insanity in individuals, countries, and cultures. Psychiatrists not only thought they could transform society in the industrial age but also explain the many strange beliefs expressed in the distant past. Troubled by Faith explores these ideas about the supernatural across society through the prism of medical history. It is a story of how people continued to make sense of the world in supernatural terms, and how belief came to be a medical issue. This cannot be done without exploring the lives of those who found themselves in asylums because of their belief in ghosts, witches, angels, devils, and fairies, or because they though themselves in divine communication, or were haunted by modern technology. The beliefs expressed by asylum patients were not just an expression of their individual mental health, but also provide a unique reflection of society at the time - a world still steeped in the ideas and imagery of folklore and faith in a fast-changing world.

Author : Éva Pócs
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 541 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2019-01-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781527525795

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The Magical and Sacred Medical World by Éva Pócs Pdf

This collection of papers explores the sacred and magical aspects of ethno-medicine. The subject area is marked out by the points of connection between religious anthropology, ethno-medicine and medical anthropology, focusing on topics such as magical and religious concepts of health and disease, causes of disease, religious and magical averting and healing rites, healing gods, saints and, last but not least, the role that these play in the society, religion, mentality and everyday life of a community, as well as their various representations in folklore, literature or art. This volume includes, without restrictions of a methodological, temporal or geographical nature, works from the fields of folklore studies, anthropology, cultural history, comparative historical and textual philology, as well as research findings using the latest methods of analysis in textual folklore or based on archival research or fieldwork in or outside of Europe. This book will appeal to researchers and students of religion, folklore, and medical anthropology, as well as general readers interested in the humanities and cultural history.

Author : Leslie Stephen
Publisher : London ; New York : Longmans, Green and Company
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1894
Category : Alps
ISBN : HARVARD:32044009661919

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The Playground of Europe by Leslie Stephen Pdf

Author : Gábor Klaniczay,Éva Pócs
Publisher : Springer
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2017-11-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9783319547565

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Witchcraft and Demonology in Hungary and Transylvania by Gábor Klaniczay,Éva Pócs Pdf

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.

Author : Beth A. Griech-Polelle
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2017-01-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9781472586926

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Anti-Semitism and the Holocaust by Beth A. Griech-Polelle Pdf

"A source-rich historical survey of the Holocaust which pays particular attention to the role played by anti-Semitic traditions and language in the genocide"--

Author : Emily Gerard
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1888
Category : Romanies
ISBN : IND:30000094740259

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The Land Beyond the Forest by Emily Gerard Pdf

Author : R. Schulte
Publisher : Springer
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2009-06-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9780230240742

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Man as Witch by R. Schulte Pdf

Witch-hunts in Central Europe were by no means focused only on women; one in four alleged witches was male. This study analyzes and describes the witch trials of men in French and German-speaking regions, opening up a little known chapter of early modern times, and revealing the conflicts from which witch-hunts of men evolved.

Author : George Meredith
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 574 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1896
Category : Marriage
ISBN : UCAL:B4102212

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The Amazing Marriage by George Meredith Pdf

Author : Francis Barton Gummere
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 757 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2023-09-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783387073584

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The Beginnings of Poetry by Francis Barton Gummere Pdf

Reproduction of the original. The publishing house Megali specialises in reproducing historical works in large print to make reading easier for people with impaired vision.

Author : Clement A. Miles
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 389 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2022-11-13
Category : Religion
ISBN : EAN:8596547394075

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Christmas in Ritual and Tradition by Clement A. Miles Pdf

Christmas in Ritual and Tradition, Christian and Pagan is a study of the history and folklore surrounding Christmas holidays in several countries. It is an amazing collection of Christmas-related traditions from the first introductions of Christianity to the early 20th century. The book covers the history of Christmas as a Christian feast day and how that developed. It also discusses pre-Christian festivals and observances and how a lot of them survived by being given a Christian veneer although the overt paganism disappeared. Clement A. Miles (1881-1918), an author and translator, was a member of the Folk-Lore Society. He had been for many years on T. Fisher Unwin's literary staff and he was the author of an important work: Christmas in Ritual and Tradition. Miles possessed a wide knowledge of European languages, and translated numerous works from French and Italian.

Author : Dirk Johannsen,Anja Kirsch,Jens Kreinath
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 391 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2020-01-29
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004421677

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Narrative Cultures and the Aesthetics of Religion by Dirk Johannsen,Anja Kirsch,Jens Kreinath Pdf

Narrative Cultures and the Aesthetics of Religion studies narrativity as situated modes of engaging with reality in religious contexts across the globe, equally shaped by the immersive character of the stories told and the sensory qualities of their performances.