Styrian Witches In European Perspective
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Styrian Witches In European Perspective
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Author : Mirjam Mencej
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2017-01-27
Styrian Witches In European Perspective written by Mirjam Mencej and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-01-27 with Philosophy categories.
The book provides a comprehensive exploration of witchcraft beliefs and practices in the rural region of Eastern Slovenia. Based on field research conducted at the beginning of the twenty-first century, it examines witchcraft in the region from folkloristic, anthropological, as well as historical, perspectives. Witchcraft is presented as part of social reality, strongly related to misfortune and involved in social relationships. The reality of the ascribed bewitching deeds, psychological mechanisms that may help bewitchment to work, circumstances in which bewitchment narratives can be mobilised, reasons for a person to acquire a reputation of the witch in the entire community, and the role that unwitchers fulfilled in the community, are but a few of the many topics discussed. In addition, the intertwinement of social witchcraft with narratives of supernatural experiences, closely associated with supernatural beings of European folklore, forming part of the overall witchcraft discourse in the area, is explored.
Cultures Of Witchcraft In Europe From The Middle Ages To The Present
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Author : Jonathan Barry
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2017-10-09
Cultures Of Witchcraft In Europe From The Middle Ages To The Present written by Jonathan Barry and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-10-09 with History categories.
This volume is a collection based on the contributions to witchcraft studies of Willem de Blécourt, to whom it is dedicated, and who provides the opening chapter, setting out a methodological and conceptual agenda for the study of cultures of witchcraft (broadly defined) in Europe since the Middle Ages. It includes contributions from historians, anthropologists, literary scholars and folklorists who have collaborated closely with De Blécourt. Essays pick up some or all of the themes and approaches he pioneered, and apply them to cases which range in time and space across all the main regions of Europe since the thirteenth century until the present day. While some draw heavily on texts, others on archival sources, and others on field research, they all share a commitment to reconstructing the meaning and lived experience of witchcraft (and its related phenomena) to Europeans at all levels, respecting the many varieties and ambiguities in such meanings and experiences and resisting attempts to reduce them to master narratives or simple causal models. The chapter 'News from the Invisible World: The Publishing History of Tales of the Supernatural c.1660-1832' is available open access under a CC BY 4.0 license at link.springer.com.
Body Soul Spirits And Supernatural Communication
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Author : Éva Pócs
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Release Date : 2019-01-17
Body Soul Spirits And Supernatural Communication written by Éva Pócs and has been published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-01-17 with Religion categories.
This book provides a nuanced picture of the notions of body and soul held by the peoples of Europe through the soul concepts associated with the Judeo-Christian tradition and other religions and denominations; and the alternative traditions preserved alongside Christianity in folklore collections, linguistic and literary records. The studies also emphasize the connections between these notions and beliefs related to death and the dead, as well as questions of communication between the human world and the spirit world. The essays here focus on the roles notions of the soul and the spirit world play in the everyday life, religion and mentality of various communities; their folklore and literary representations, as well as the narrative metaphors, motifs, topoi and genres of ideas about the soul and about supernatural communication, along with questions of the relationship between narratives and religious notions. This book will appeal to researchers and students of religion, mythology, folklore and the anthropology of religion, as well as general readers interested in the humanities.
Werewolf Legends
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Author : Willem de Blécourt
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
Release Date : 2023-09-30
Werewolf Legends written by Willem de Blécourt and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-09-30 with History categories.
This book brings together contributions from anthropologists and folklorists on werewolf legends from all over Europe. Ranging from broad overviews to specific case studies, their chapters highlight the similarities and differences between werewolf narratives in different areas and attempt to explain them. The result of interaction between elite and popular culture, local and external influences, and nature and culture that lasted several centuries or even more, nineteenth- to twenty-first-century werewolf legends represent a kaleidoscope of the darker sides of human life.
Troubled By Faith
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Author : Owen Davies
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2023-08-29
Troubled By Faith written by Owen Davies and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-08-29 with History categories.
The nineteenth century was a time of extraordinary scientific innovation, but with the rise of psychiatry, faiths and popular beliefs were often seen as signs of a diseased mind. By exploring the beliefs of asylum patients, we see the nineteenth century in a new light, with science, faith, and the supernatural deeply entangled in a fast-changing world. The birth of psychiatry in the early nineteenth-century fundamentally changed how madness was categorised and understood. A century on, their conceptions of mental illness continue to influence our views today. Beliefs and behaviour were divided up into the pathological and the healthy. The influence of religion and the supernatural became significant measures of insanity in individuals, countries, and cultures. Psychiatrists not only thought they could transform society in the industrial age but also explain the many strange beliefs expressed in the distant past. Troubled by Faith explores these ideas about the supernatural across society through the prism of medical history. It is a story of how people continued to make sense of the world in supernatural terms, and how belief came to be a medical issue. This cannot be done without exploring the lives of those who found themselves in asylums because of their belief in ghosts, witches, angels, devils, and fairies, or because they though themselves in divine communication, or were haunted by modern technology. The beliefs expressed by asylum patients were not just an expression of their individual mental health, but also provide a unique reflection of society at the time - a world still steeped in the ideas and imagery of folklore and faith in a fast-changing world.
The Magical And Sacred Medical World
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Author : Éva Pócs
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Release Date : 2019-01-15
The Magical And Sacred Medical World written by Éva Pócs and has been published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-01-15 with Social Science categories.
This collection of papers explores the sacred and magical aspects of ethno-medicine. The subject area is marked out by the points of connection between religious anthropology, ethno-medicine and medical anthropology, focusing on topics such as magical and religious concepts of health and disease, causes of disease, religious and magical averting and healing rites, healing gods, saints and, last but not least, the role that these play in the society, religion, mentality and everyday life of a community, as well as their various representations in folklore, literature or art. This volume includes, without restrictions of a methodological, temporal or geographical nature, works from the fields of folklore studies, anthropology, cultural history, comparative historical and textual philology, as well as research findings using the latest methods of analysis in textual folklore or based on archival research or fieldwork in or outside of Europe. This book will appeal to researchers and students of religion, folklore, and medical anthropology, as well as general readers interested in the humanities and cultural history.
Pripovedno Izro Ilo
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Author : Monika Kropej Telban
language : sl
Publisher: Založba ZRC
Release Date : 2021
Pripovedno Izro Ilo written by Monika Kropej Telban and has been published by Založba ZRC this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021 with Social Science categories.
Celosten prikaz razvoja in raziskovanja slovenskega folklornega pripovednega izročila odkriva vpogled v osnovne premise razvojne poti pripovedništva v slovenskem in mednarodnem kulturnem prostoru. Preko analize vsebin in poti širjenja je predstavljeno spreminjanje pripovedne kulture skozi prostor in čas. Literatura in slovstvena folklora sta se vzajemno oplajali in zato je pripovedno izročilo ne glede na razdalje, tako prostorske kot časovne, skupno bogastvo številnih narodov. Predstavljene so razvojne smernice od izročil najstarejših civilizacij do pripovedne kulture današnjih dni, kakor tudi različni žanri folklornega pripovedništva. Predstavljene so tudi metode in teorije raziskovanja, ki so se ali se še vedno uporabljajo in nastajajo v folkloristiki in na področju pripovedne kulture.
Anti Semitism And The Holocaust
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Author : Beth A. Griech-Polelle
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2017-01-26
Anti Semitism And The Holocaust written by Beth A. Griech-Polelle and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-01-26 with History categories.
Anti-Semitism and the Holocaust surveys the history of the Holocaust whilst demonstrating the pivotal importance of the historical tradition of anti-Semitism and the power of discriminatory language in relation to the Nazi-led persecution of the Jews. The book examines varieties of anti-Semitism that have existed throughout history, from religious anti-Semitism in the ancient Roman Empire to the racial anti-Semitism of political anti-Semites in Germany and Austria in the late 19th century. Beth A. Griech-Polelle analyzes the tropes, imagery, legends, myths and stereotypes about Jews that have surfaced at these various points in time. Anti-Semitism and the Holocaust considers how this language helped to engender an innate distrust, dislike and even hatred of the Jews in 20th-century Europe. She explores the shattering impact of the First World War and the rise of Weimar Germany, Hitler's rhetoric and the first phase of Nazi anti-Semitism before illustrating how ghettos, SS Einsatzgruppen killing squads, death camps and death marches were used to drive this anti-Semitic feeling towards genocide. With a wealth of primary source material, a thorough engagement with significant Holocaust scholarship and numerous illustrations, reading lists and a glossary to provide further support, this is a vital book for any student of the Holocaust keen to know more about the language of hate which fuelled it.
Christian Demonology And Popular Mythology
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Author : Gábor Klaniczay
language : en
Publisher: Central European University Press
Release Date : 2006-10-10
Christian Demonology And Popular Mythology written by Gábor Klaniczay and has been published by Central European University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-10-10 with History categories.
This is the second volume of a series of three, containing seventeen essays of altogether forty-three articles based on the topics of the interdisciplinary conference held on "Demons, spirits, and witches" in Budapest. Recognized historians, ethnologists, folklorists coming from four continents present the latest research findings on the relationship, coexistence and conflicts of popular belief systems, Judeo-Christian mythology and demonology in medieval and modern Europe. After a first volume, published in 2005, on "Communicating with the Spirits", the studies in the present volume examine the manifold interchanges between learned and popular culture, and its repercussions on magical belief-system and the changing figure of the witch. Book jacket.
The Playground Of Europe
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Author : Leslie Stephen
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1871
The Playground Of Europe written by Leslie Stephen and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1871 with Alps categories.