Witchcraft and Demonology in Hungary and Transylvania - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Witchcraft and Demonology in Hungary and Transylvania write by Gábor Klaniczay. This book was released on 2017-11-29. Witchcraft and Demonology in Hungary and Transylvania available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Between the Devil and the Host
Between the Devil and the Host - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Between the Devil and the Host write by Michael Ostling. This book was released on 2011-11-03. Between the Devil and the Host available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. For the first time in English, Michael Ostling tells the story of the imagined Polish witches, showing how ordinary peasant-women got caught in webs of suspicion and accusation, finally confessing under torture to the most heinous of crimes.
Classical Culture and Witchcraft in Medieval and Renaissance Italy
Classical Culture and Witchcraft in Medieval and Renaissance Italy - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Classical Culture and Witchcraft in Medieval and Renaissance Italy write by Marina Montesano. This book was released on 2018-07-11. Classical Culture and Witchcraft in Medieval and Renaissance Italy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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 dealing with witch-beliefs referenced them. Still, the role of humanistic culture and classical revival in the developing of the witch-hunts has not yet been fully researched. Marina Montesano examines Greek and Latin literature, revealing how particular features of ancient striges were carried into the Late Middle Ages, through the Renaissance and into the fifteenth century, when early Italian trials recall the myth of the strix common in ancient Latin sources and in popular memory. The final chapter also serves as a conclusion, to show how in Renaissance Italy and beyond, classical accounts of witchcraft ceased to be just stories, as they had formerly been, and were instead used to attest to the reality of witches’ powers.
The Role of Magic in the Past
The Role of Magic in the Past - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Role of Magic in the Past write by Blanka Szeghyová. This book was released on 2005. The Role of Magic in the Past available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
The History of Witchcraft and Demonology
The History of Witchcraft and Demonology - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The History of Witchcraft and Demonology write by Montague Summers. This book was released on 1926. The History of Witchcraft and Demonology available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This work about witchcraft, sorcery, black magic, neuromancy, damnation, satanism and every kind of magic and occult is written by the undisputed scholar in the field and is a work of unprecedented authority, of interest to all who are connected with the subject.
