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 táltos; 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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Yes, you can access Witchcraft and Demonology in Hungary and Transylvania by Gábor Klaniczay, Éva Pócs, Gábor Klaniczay,Éva Pócs in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in History & European History. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Information

Publisher

Palgrave Macmillan

Year

2017

ISBN

9783319547565

Topic

History

Subtopic

European History

Index

History

Contents
Editors and Contributors
List of Tables
Introduction
The Social Background of Witchcraft Accusations in Early Modern Debrecen and Bihar County
Witchcraft, Greed and Revenge: The Prosecutor Activity of György Igyártó and the Witch Trials of Kolozsvár in the 1580s
Healers in Hungarian Witch Trials
Divinatio Diabolica and Superstitious Medicine: Healers, Seers and Diviners in the Changing Discourse of Witchcraft in Early Modern Nagybánya
Shamanism or Witchcraft? The Táltos Before the Tribunals
The Decriminalization of Magic and the Fight Against Superstition in Hungary and Transylvania, 1740–1848
Demonology and Catholic Enlightenment in Eighteenth-Century Hungary
Talking Through Witchcraft—on the Bewitchment Discourse of a Village Community
Index