Witchcraft and Demonology in Hungary and Transylvania / edited by Gábor Klaniczay, Éva Pócs.
Klaniczay, Gábor., editor.; Pócs, Éva., editor.
2017
D203.2-D475
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Title Witchcraft and Demonology in Hungary and Transylvania / edited by Gábor Klaniczay, Éva Pócs.
ISBN 3319547569
9783319547565
9783319547558
3319547550
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-54756-5.
Published Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.
Language English
Description 1 online resource (XIV, 412 pages)
Item Number 10.1007/978-3-319-54756-5. doi
Call Number D203.2-D475
Dewey Decimal Classification 940.903
Summary 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.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Added Author Klaniczay, Gábor., editor.
Pócs, Éva., editor.
Series Palgrave historical studies in witchcraft and magic.
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The social background of witchcraft accusations in early modern Debrecen and Bihar County; Ildikó Sz. Kristóf
Witchcraft, greed and revenge: The prosecutor activity of György Igyártó and the witch trials of Kolozsvár in the 1580s; László Pakó
Healers in Hungarian witch trials; Gábor Klaniczay
Divinatio diabolica and magical medicine. Healers, seers and diviners in early modern Nagybánya; Judit Kis-Halas
Shamanism or witchcraft? The táltos before the tribunals; Éva Pócs
The decriminalization of magic and the fight against superstitions in Hungary and Transylvania 1740-1848; Péter Tóth G
Demonology and Catholic Enlightenment in eighteenth-century Hungary; Dániel Bárth
Talking through witchcraft
on the bewitchment discourse of a village community; Ágnes Hesz
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