News from the invisible world the publishing history of tales of the supernatural c.1660-1832
This chapter explores the transmission of tales of the supernatural during the very long eighteenth century (between c.1660 and c.1832). A genre of publications on this subject which have not been studied are those anthologies of supposedly true stories, usually relating to named people and places a...
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Springer Nature
2017.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction; Jonathan Barry, Owen Davies and Cornelie Usborne.- Contested Knowledge: The Historical Anthropologist's Approach to European Witchcraft; Willem de Blécourt.- Witches and Devil's Magic in Austrian Demonological Legends; Christa Agnes Tuczay.- Hanna Dyâb's Witch and the Great Witch Switch; Ruth Bottigheimer.- The Mirror of the Witches (1600). A German tragedy in context; Rita Voltmer.- Unravelling the Myth and Histories of the Weighing Test at Oudewater: the case of Leentje Williams; Machteld Löwensteyn.- The North Sea as a Crossroads of Witchcraft Beliefs: the limited importance of political boundaries; Hans de Waardt.- "Kind in words and deeds, but false in their hearts". Fear of evil conspiracy in late sixteenth-century Denmark; Louise Nyholm Kallestrup.- "Ein gefehrlich Ding, darin leichtlich zuviel geschieht" (A dangerous thing in which too much happens easily): The end of village witch-trials in the Saar region; Eva Labouvie.- News from the Invisible World: the publishing history of tales of the supernatural c.1660-1832; Jonathan Barry.- Researching Reverse-Witch Trials in Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century England; Owen Davies.- The Catechism of Witch Lore in Twentieth-Century Denmark; Gustav Henningsen.- Magic and Counter-Magic in Twenty-First-Century Bosnia; Mirjam Mencej.- Index.
