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Witchcraft and Demonology in Hungary and Transylvania
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Witchcraft and Demonology in Hungary and Transylvania
About this book
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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Table of contents
- 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
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