Between the Living and the Dead
A Perspective on Witches and Seers in the Early Modern Age
1st Edition
Published on 1. January 1998
188 pages
978-615-5225-30-7 (ISBN)
Description
Éva Pócs, one of the most highly respected scholars of historical anthropology, has undertaken extensive research on the history of folk beliefs connected with communication and the supernatural sphere. In this book, she examines the relics of European shamanism in early modern sources, and the techniques and belief-systems of mediators found in the records of witchcraft trials from the sixteenth to the eighteenth century. The book explores the various communication systems known to early modern Hungarians, describes the role of these systems in everyday village life, and shows how they were connected to contemporary European systems, as well as new types of mediators and systems which function right up to the twentieth century. Representing a major contribution to the most up-to-date international research, Eva Pócs draws on significant East European material and literature not previously co-ordinated with that from the West.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Budapest
Hungary
Target group
Professional and scholarly
File size
3,34 MB
ISBN-13
978-615-5225-30-7 (9786155225307)
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01/1998
Central European University Press
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Content
Contents Introduction Chapter 1: The limitations and potential of the documentary sources Chapter 2: General conditions for communication with the supernatural Chapter 3: The belief figure of the witch Chapter 4: The malefactor witch Chapter 5: The alternative world of the witches' sabbat Chapter 6: The healing witch Chapter 7: The enemies of the witch Afterword. Bibliography
