Styrian Witches in European Perspective
Ethnographic Fieldwork
(Sprache: Englisch)
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...
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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.
Inhaltsverzeichnis zu „Styrian Witches in European Perspective “
Introduction.- 1. Contemporary European Witchcraft.- 2. Witchcraft in the Region under Research.- 3. Social Witchcraft: Neighbourhood Witches.- 4. Social Witchcraft: Countermeasures.- 5. Social History: Specialists.- 6. Social Witchcraft: Village Witches.- 7. Night Witches.- Conclusion.
Autoren-Porträt von Mirjam Mencej
Mirjam Mencej is Professor of Folkloristics at the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia. She has published numerous papers and six monographs on folklore and vernacular religion.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Mirjam Mencej
- 2016, 1st ed. 2017., 454 Seiten, Maße: 15,3 x 21,6 cm, Gebunden, Englisch
- Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan
- ISBN-10: 1137372494
- ISBN-13: 9781137372499
- Erscheinungsdatum: 21.12.2016
Sprache:
Englisch
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