Devils Witches
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Devils Demons And Witchcraft
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Author : Ernst and Johanna Lehner
language : en
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Release Date : 2012-05-11
Devils Demons And Witchcraft written by Ernst and Johanna Lehner and has been published by Courier Corporation this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-05-11 with Art categories.
244 representations, symbols, and manuscript pages of devils and death from Ancient Egypt to 1913. Fascinating graphics depict demons, witches, and warlocks, more. Works by Dürer, Cranach, Holbein, Rembrandt, others.
Witches Devils And Doctors In The Renaissance
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Author : George Mora
language : en
Publisher: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies (ACMRS)
Release Date : 1991
Witches Devils And Doctors In The Renaissance written by George Mora and has been published by Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies (ACMRS) this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1991 with Medical categories.
Dämonologie.
Vexed With Devils
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Author : Erika Gasser
language : en
Publisher: NYU Press
Release Date : 2019-12-15
Vexed With Devils written by Erika Gasser and has been published by NYU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-12-15 with History categories.
Stories of witchcraft and demonic possession from early modern England through the last official trials in colonial New England Those possessed by the devil in early modern England usually exhibited a common set of symptoms: fits, vomiting, visions, contortions, speaking in tongues, and an antipathy to prayer. However, it was a matter of interpretation, and sometimes public opinion, if these symptoms were visited upon the victim, or if they came from within. Both early modern England and colonial New England had cases that blurred the line between witchcraft and demonic possession, most famously, the Salem witch trials. While historians acknowledge some similarities in witch trials between the two regions, such as the fact that an overwhelming majority of witches were women, the histories of these cases primarily focus on local contexts and specifics. In so doing, they overlook the ways in which manhood factored into possession and witchcraft cases. Vexed with Devils is a cultural history of witchcraft-possession phenomena that centers on the role of men and patriarchal power. Erika Gasser reveals that witchcraft trials had as much to do with who had power in the community, to impose judgement or to subvert order, as they did with religious belief. She argues that the gendered dynamics of possession and witchcraft demonstrated that contested meanings of manhood played a critical role in the struggle to maintain authority. While all men were not capable of accessing power in the same ways, many of the people involved—those who acted as if they were possessed, men accused of being witches, and men who wrote possession propaganda—invoked manhood as they struggled to advocate for themselves during these perilous times. Gasser ultimately concludes that the decline of possession and witchcraft cases was not merely a product of change over time, but rather an indication of the ways in which patriarchal power endured throughout and beyond the colonial period. Vexed with Devils reexamines an unnerving time and offers a surprising new perspective on our own, using stories and voices which emerge from the records in ways that continue to fascinate and unsettle us.
Witchcraft The Devil And Emotions In Early Modern England
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Author : Charlotte-Rose Millar
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2017-07-14
Witchcraft The Devil And Emotions In Early Modern England written by Charlotte-Rose Millar and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-07-14 with History categories.
This book represents the first systematic study of the role of the Devil in English witchcraft pamphlets for the entire period of state-sanctioned witchcraft prosecutions (1563-1735). It provides a rereading of English witchcraft, one which moves away from an older historiography which underplays the role of the Devil in English witchcraft and instead highlights the crucial role that the Devil, often in the form of a familiar spirit, took in English witchcraft belief. One of the key ways in which this book explores the role of the Devil is through emotions. Stories of witches were made up of a complex web of emotionally implicated accusers, victims, witnesses, and supposed perpetrators. They reveal a range of emotional experiences that do not just stem from malefic witchcraft but also, and primarily, from a witch’s links with the Devil. This book, then, has two main objectives. First, to suggest that English witchcraft pamphlets challenge our understanding of English witchcraft as a predominantly non-diabolical crime, and second, to highlight how witchcraft narratives emphasized emotions as the primary motivation for witchcraft acts and accusations.
Witches And Demons
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Author : Jean La Fontaine
language : en
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Release Date : 2016-04-01
Witches And Demons written by Jean La Fontaine and has been published by Berghahn Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-04-01 with Social Science categories.
Devil worship, black magic, and witchcraft have long captivated anthropologists as well as the general public. In this volume, Jean La Fontaine explores the intersection of expert and lay understandings of evil and the cultural forms that evil assumes. The chapters touch on public scares about devil-worship, misconceptions about human sacrifice and the use of body parts in healing practices, and mistaken accusations of children practicing witchcraft. Together, these cases demonstrate that comparison is a powerful method of cultural understanding, but warns of the dangers and mistaken conclusions that untrained ideas about other ways of life can lead to.
Devils Witches
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Author : Vianka Van Bokkem
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2015-01-21
Devils Witches written by Vianka Van Bokkem and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-01-21 with Fiction categories.
“A long time ago, my father and his warriors encountered a new kind of Aztec brujos (male-witches) capable of turning into jackals.“They call themselves 'Brujos del Diablo' (Devils Witches). My father and our medicine man learned that every time they bit someone, the victim had horrible hallucinations.“According to my father, sometimes what they saw was so real that they killed themselves with their own spears.
Under The Devil S Spell
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Author : Matteo Duni
language : en
Publisher: Syracuse University in Florence
Release Date : 2007-11-07
Under The Devil S Spell written by Matteo Duni and has been published by Syracuse University in Florence this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-11-07 with History categories.
"This book reconstructs the activity of the "tribunal of the faith" in the northern Italian states during the period 1400-1600, analyzing the ideology of its judges, and taking a closer look at the Italian witches and their clientele. For the first time the English-language reader will be offered direct access to this little-known world through a large selection of translated Inquisition trials from the rich State Archives of Modena." "Students of early modern culture and religion will discover how magic was employed habitually through a wide variety of composite spells and enchantments. Folklore, Catholic ritual, and books of demonic conjurations offered wizards and healers countless sources of inspiration for their practices, Readers interested in social and gender history will learn how magic and witchcraft comprised an integral part of daily life in early modern Italy. They were a means for contact and communication between diverse worlds, where wealthy aristocrats and petty shopkeepers, refined intellectuals and crafty prostitutes, rich bishops and clever priests all rubbed shoulders while attempting to improve their lot by magical means."--BOOK JACKET.
Magic Witches And Devils In The Early Modern World
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Author : Jennifer Spinks
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2016
Magic Witches And Devils In The Early Modern World written by Jennifer Spinks and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016 with Magic in art categories.
Magic, witches & devils in the early modern world reveals how magic, diabolical witchcraft, and ghostly encounters inspired fear and curiosity on an unprecedented scale between the 15th and 18th centuries.
Nightmare Witches And Devils
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Author : Ernest Jones
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1931
Nightmare Witches And Devils written by Ernest Jones and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1931 with Dreams categories.
Demon Lovers
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Author : Walter Stephens
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2003-08-15
Demon Lovers written by Walter Stephens and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-08-15 with History categories.
On September 20, 1587, Walpurga Hausmännin of Dillingen in southern Germany was burned at the stake as a witch. Although she had confessed to committing a long list of maleficia (deeds of harmful magic), including killing forty—one infants and two mothers in labor, her evil career allegedly began with just one heinous act—sex with a demon. Fornication with demons was a major theme of her trial record, which detailed an almost continuous orgy of sexual excess with her diabolical paramour Federlin "in many divers places, . . . even in the street by night." As Walter Stephens demonstrates in Demon Lovers, it was not Hausmännin or other so-called witches who were obsessive about sex with demons—instead, a number of devout Christians, including trained theologians, displayed an uncanny preoccupation with the topic during the centuries of the "witch craze." Why? To find out, Stephens conducts a detailed investigation of the first and most influential treatises on witchcraft (written between 1430 and 1530), including the infamous Malleus Maleficarum (Hammer of Witches). Far from being credulous fools or mindless misogynists, early writers on witchcraft emerge in Stephens's account as rational but reluctant skeptics, trying desperately to resolve contradictions in Christian thought on God, spirits, and sacraments that had bedeviled theologians for centuries. Proof of the physical existence of demons—for instance, through evidence of their intercourse with mortal witches—would provide strong evidence for the reality of the supernatural, the truth of the Bible, and the existence of God. Early modern witchcraft theory reflected a crisis of belief—a crisis that continues to be expressed today in popular debates over angels, Satanic ritual child abuse, and alien abduction.