EAN: 9783319547558

WITCHCRAFT AND DEMONOLOGY IN HUNGARY AND TRANSY...

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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