Witchcraft and Demonology in South-West England, 1640-1789 - 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 South-West England, 1640-1789 write by J. Barry. This book was released on 2011-12-13. Witchcraft and Demonology in South-West England, 1640-1789 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Using south-western England as a focus for considering the continued place of witchcraft and demonology in provincial culture in the period between the English and French revolutions, Barry shows how witch-beliefs were intricately woven into the fabric of daily life, even at a time when they arguably ceased to be of interest to the educated.
Raising Spirits
Raising Spirits - 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 Raising Spirits write by J. Barry. This book was released on 2013-11-19. Raising Spirits available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Despite supernatural scepticism, stories about spirits were regularly printed and shared throughout the 18th and 19th centuries. This case-study in the transmission of a single story (of a young gunsmith near Bristol conjuring spirits, leading to his early death) reveals both how and why successive generations found meaning in such accounts.
Witchcraft and Demonology in Hungary and Transylvania
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.
A History of Anglican Exorcism
A History of Anglican Exorcism - 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 A History of Anglican Exorcism write by Francis Young. This book was released on 2018-06-30. A History of Anglican Exorcism available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Exorcism is more widespread in contemporary England than perhaps at any other time in history. The Anglican Church is by no means the main provider of this ritual, which predominantly takes place in independent churches. However, every one of the Church of England dioceses in the country now designates at least one member of its clergy to advise on casting out demons. Such `deliverance ministry' is in theory made available to all those parishioners who desire it. Yet, as Francis Young reveals, present-day exorcism in Anglicanism is an unlikely historical anomaly. It sprang into existence in the 1970s within a church that earlier on had spent whole centuries condemning the expulsion of evil spirits as either Catholic superstition or evangelical excess. This book for the first time tells the full story of the Anglican Church's approach to demonology and the exorcist's ritual since the Reformation in the sixteenth century. The author explains how and why how such a remarkable transformation in the Church's attitude to the rite of exorcism took place, while also setting his subject against the canvas of the wider history of ideas.
The Witches of Selwood Forest
The Witches of Selwood Forest - 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 Witches of Selwood Forest write by Andrew Pickering. This book was released on 2017-05-11. The Witches of Selwood Forest available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The ancient forest of Selwood straddles the borders of Somerset and Wiltshire and terminates in the south where these counties meet Dorset. Until now, a comprehensive study of its exceptionally rich history of demonological beliefs and witchcraft persecution in the early modern period has not been attempted. This book explores the connections between important theological texts written in the region, notably Richard Bernard’s Guide to the Grand-Jury Men (1627) and Joseph Glanvill’s Saducismus Triumphatus (1681), influential local families such as the Hunts and the Hills, and the extraordinary witchcraft episodes associated with Shepton Mallet, Brewham, Stoke Trister, and elsewhere. In particular, it focuses on a little-known case in the village of Beckington in 1689, and shows how this was not a late, isolated episode, but an integral part of the wider Selwood Forest witchcraft story.
