Witchcraft continued : popular magic in modern Europe /

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Imprint:	Manchester ; Manchester University Press : 2004. New York : Distributed exclusively in the USA by Palgrave, 2004.
Description:	1 online resource (1 electronic resource (viii, 219 pages))
Language:	English
Subject:	Witchcraft -- Europe -- History -- 19th century. Witchcraft -- Europe -- History -- 20th century. Witchcraft. Europe. History.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12325158

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Other authors / contributors:	Blécourt, Willem de. Davies, Owen, 1969-
ISBN:	1847790992 9781847790996 9780719066580 0719066581 1526137976 9780719066597 071906659X 1280734574 9781280734571 9786610734573 6610734577 9781526137975
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Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index. Restrictions unspecified Open Access Electronic reproduction. [Place of publication not identified] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2011. Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 English. digitized 2011 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve Description based on print version record; resource not viewed.
Summary:	An important collection of essays that use a variety of different approaches and sources to uncover the continued relevance of witchcraft and magic in nineteenth and twentieth-century Europe.
Other form:	Print version: Witchcraft continued Manchester ; Manchester University Press : 2004. 0719066581

Table of Contents:

Introduction : witchcraft continued / Willem de Blécourt and Owen Davies
A case of witchcraft assault in early nineteenth-century England as ostensive action / Stephen Mitchell
Witchcraft, witch doctors and the fight against 'superstition' in nineteenth-century Germany / Nils Freytag
The witch and the detective : mid-Victorian stories and beliefs / Susan Hoyle
Narrative and the social dynamics of magical harm in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Finland / Laura Stark
Boiling chickens and burning cats : witchcraft in the western Netherlands, 1850-1925 / Willem de Blécourt
Witchcraft accusations in France, 1850-1990 / Owen Davies
Magical healing in Spain (1875-1936) : medical pluralism and the search for hegemony / Enrique Perdiguero
Witchcraft, healing and vernacular magic in Italy / Sabina Magliocco
Curse, maleficium, divination : witchcraft on the borderline of religion and magic / Éva Pócs
Spooks and spooks : black magic and bogeymen in Northern Ireland, 1973-74 / Richard Jenkins.

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