Witchcraft continued : popular magic in modern Europe /
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| Imprint: | Manchester ; New York : Manchester University Press : Distributed exclusively in the USA by Palgrave, 2004. |
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| Description: | viii, 219 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/5622431 |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Witchcraft continued
- A case of witchcraft assault in early nineteenth-century England as ostensive action
- Witchcraft, witch doctors and the fight against 'superstition' in nineteenth-century Germany
- The witch and the detective: Mid-Victorian stories and beliefs
- Narrative and the social dynamics of magical harm in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Finland
- Boiling chickens and burning cats: Witchcraft in the western Netherlands 1850-1925
- Witchcraft accusations in France 1850-1990
- Magical healing in Spain (1875-1936): Medical pluralism in the search for hegemony
- Witchcraft, healing and vernacular magic in Italy
- Curse, maleficium, divination: Witchcraft on the borderline of religion and magic
- Spooks and Spooks: Black magic and bogeymen in Northern Ireland 1973-74
- Index
