Klaniczay / Pócs Witchcraft Mythologies and Persecutions

Erscheinungsjahr 2008
ISBN: 978-615-5211-50-8
Verlag: Amsterdam University Press
Format: PDF
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This third, concluding volume of the series publishes 14 studies and the transcription of a round-table discussion on Carlo Ginzburg's Ecstasies. The themes of the previous two volumes, Communicating with the Spirits, and Christian Demonology and Popular Mythology, are further expanded here both as regards their interdisciplinary approach and the wide range of regional comparisons. While the emphasis of the second volume was on current popular belief and folklore as seen in the context of the historical sources on demonology, this volume approaches its subject from the point of view of historical anthropology. The greatest recent advances of witchcraft research occurred recently in two fields: (1) deciphering the variety of myths and the complexity of historical processes which lead to the formation of the witches' Sabbath, (2) the micro-historical analysis of the social, religious, legal and cultural milieu where witchcraft accusations and persecutions developed. These two themes are completed by some further insights into the folklore of the concerned regions which still carries the traces of the traumatic historical memories of witchcraft persecutions.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Klaniczay, Gábor

Klaniczay, Gabor

Pócs, Éva

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction by Gábor Klaniczay and Éva Pócs Mythologies Martine Ostorero, The Concept of the Witches’ Sabbath in the Alpine Region (1430-1440) Text and Context Round-table discussion on Ecstasies by Carlo Ginzburg (with the participation of Wolfgang Behringer, Carlo Ginzburg ,Gustav Henningsen, Gábor Klaniczay, Giovanni Pizza and Éva Pócs) Gábor Klaniczay, Learned Systems and Popular Narratives of Vision and Bewitchment Adelina Angusheva, Late Medieval Witch Mythologies in the Balkans Per Sörlin, Child-Witches and the Construction of the Witches´Sabbath: The Swedish Blåkulla Story Legal mechanisms, social contexts Péter Tóth G., River Ordeal–Trial by Water–Swimming of Witches: Procedures of Ordeal in Witchcraft Trials Ildikó Kristóf, How to Make a (Legal) Pact with the Devil? Legal Customs and Literacy in Witch Confessions in Early Modern Hungary Anna Brzezinska, Healing at the Jagiellonian Court Polina Melik Simonian, Following the Traces of Xenophobia in Muscovite Witchcraft Investigation Records Judit Kis-Halas, Trial of an Honest Citizen, Nagybánya 1704-5: The social and cultural context of witchcraft accusations - a tentative microanalysis Daniel Ryan, Boundaries and Transgressions: Witchcraft and Community Conflict in Estonia During the Late Nineteenth Century Witchcraft and folklore Francisco Vaz da Silva, Extraordinary Children, Werewolves and Witches in Portuguese Folk-Tradition Ülo Valk, Reflections of Folk Belief and Legends at the Witch Trials of Estonia Iveta Todorova-Pirgova, Witches and Priests in the Bulgarian Village: Past and Present Mirjam Mencej, Witchcraft in Eastern Slovenia

Über Autor(innen)

Klaniczay, Gábor
Gábor Klaniczay is University Professor of Medieval Studies at the Central European University.

Pócs, Éva
Éva Pócs is Professor emeritus at the Department of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology, University of Pécs, Hungary.