Focusing on the crossroads in the early modern period, this book
deals with the literature and history of the physical crossroads:
it's magical and religious encounters, rituals of transformation,
binding of undesirable spirits, siting of gallows, associations
with music, and links to ancient cosmology. Physical crossroads
have been culturally vital sites where forces human, demonic and
divine were felt to converge. Crossroads have seemed to render the
boundaries between these spheres negotiable, subject to certain
artifice and timing. They gave access to gods and facilitated deals
with devils, they were potent sites for rituals intended to
influence lovers or harm enemies and provided both a dramatic stage
for communal activities and a burial ground for the unwanted dead
cast out in ceremonies of the night.
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