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Witchcraft and Demonology in Hungary and Transylvania (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2017)
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Witchcraft and Demonology in Hungary and Transylvania (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2017)
Series: Palgrave Historical Studies in Witchcraft and Magic
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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
taltos; 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.
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