Deadly Words - Witchcraft in the Bocage (Paperback)

This 1980 book examines witchcraft beliefs and experiences in the Bocage, a rural area of western France. It also introduced a powerful theoretical attitude towards the progress of the ethnographer's enquiries, suggesting that a full knowledge of witchcraft involves being 'caught up' in it oneself. In the Bocage, being bewitched is to be 'caught' in a sequence of misfortunes. According to those who are bewitched, the culprit is someone in the neighbourhood: the witch, who can cast a spell with a word, a touch or a look, and whose 'power' comes from a book of spells inherited from an ancestor. Only a professional magician, an 'unwitcher', has any chance of breaking the succession of misfortunes which befall those who have been bewitched. He undertakes a battle of magic with the suspected witch, a battle which is eventually fatal.

General

Imprint:	Cambridge UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	December 1980
First published:	1980
Authors:	Jeanne Favret-Saada
Dimensions:	230 x 153 x 17mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	284
ISBN-13:	978-0-521-29787-5
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Anthropology > General Promotions
LSN:	0-521-29787-7
Barcode:	9780521297875

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