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Witchcraft and Demonology in Hungary and Transylvania

✍ Scribed by Gábor Klaniczay, Éva Pócs (eds.)

Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Year
2017
Tongue
English
Leaves
419
Series
Palgrave Historical Studies in Witchcraft and Magic
Edition
1
Category
Library
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✦ Synopsis

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.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter ....Pages i-xiv
Introduction (Gábor Klaniczay, Éva Pócs)....Pages 1-12
The Social Background of Witchcraft Accusations in Early Modern Debrecen and Bihar County (Ildikó Sz. Kristóf)....Pages 13-89
Witchcraft, Greed and Revenge: The Prosecutor Activity of György Igyártó and the Witch Trials of Kolozsvár in the 1580s (László Pakó)....Pages 91-109
Healers in Hungarian Witch Trials (Gábor Klaniczay)....Pages 111-158
Divinatio Diabolica and Superstitious Medicine: Healers, Seers and Diviners in the Changing Discourse of Witchcraft in Early Modern Nagybánya (Judit Kis-Halas)....Pages 159-219
Shamanism or Witchcraft? The Táltos Before the Tribunals (Éva Pócs)....Pages 221-289
The Decriminalization of Magic and the Fight Against Superstition in Hungary and Transylvania, 1740–1848 (Pèter Tóth G.)....Pages 291-317
Demonology and Catholic Enlightenment in Eighteenth-Century Hungary (Dániel Bárth)....Pages 319-347
Talking Through Witchcraft—on the Bewitchment Discourse of a Village Community (Ágnes Hesz)....Pages 349-393
Back Matter ....Pages 395-412

✦ Subjects

History of Early Modern Europe

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