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Styrian Witches in European Perspective: Ethnographic Fieldwork: Palgrave Historical Studies in Witchcraft and Magic

Autor Mirjam Mencej
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 13 noi 2020
The book provides a comprehensive exploration of witchcraft beliefs and practices in the rural region of Eastern Slovenia. Based on field research conducted at the beginning of the twenty-first century, it examines witchcraft in the region from folkloristic, anthropological, as well as historical, perspectives. Witchcraft is presented as part of social reality, strongly related to misfortune and involved in social relationships. The reality of the ascribed bewitching deeds, psychological mechanisms that may help bewitchment to work, circumstances in which bewitchment narratives can be mobilised, reasons for a person to acquire a reputation of the witch in the entire community, and the role that unwitchers fulfilled in the community, are but a few of the many topics discussed. In addition, the intertwinement of social witchcraft with narratives of supernatural experiences, closely associated with supernatural beings of European folklore, forming part of the overall witchcraft discoursein the area, is explored.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781349676910
ISBN-10: 1349676918
Pagini: 454
Ilustrații: XII, 454 p.
Dimensiuni: 148 x 210 mm
Greutate: 0.55 kg
Ediția:1st ed. 2017
Editura: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Colecția Palgrave Macmillan
Seria Palgrave Historical Studies in Witchcraft and Magic

Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Cuprins

Introduction.- 1. Contemporary European Witchcraft.- 2. Witchcraft in the Region under Research.- 3. Social Witchcraft: Neighbourhood Witches.- 4. Social Witchcraft: Countermeasures.- 5. Social History: Specialists.- 6. Social Witchcraft: Village Witches.- 7. Night Witches.- Conclusion.

Recenzii

“I would like to emphasise this as being particularly valuable – the today’s stage of belief in witch phenomena and has already been particularly well-received by the profession – especially as regards folkloristics, ethnology and cultural anthropology, not only among Slovenian scholars, but also in the broad region of the former-Yugoslav countries … .” (Suzana Marjanić, FABULA - Zeitschrift für Erzählforschung, Vol. 60 (1-2), 2019)

“Mencej’s study combines discussion of these broad, theoretical issues with the concrete level of everyday perceptions of magical harm described by her interviewees. … Thorough, learned and surprising at many turns, this is an important work on the persistence of traditional, even archaic, magical and witch beliefs into the present.” (Mary R. O’Neil, europenowjournal.org, July, 2018)

Notă biografică

Mirjam Mencej is Professor of Folkloristics at the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia. She has published numerous papers and six monographs on folklore and vernacular religion. 

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The book provides a comprehensive exploration of witchcraft beliefs and practices in the rural region of Eastern Slovenia. Based on field research conducted at the beginning of the twenty-first century, it examines witchcraft in the region from folkloristic, anthropological, as well as historical, perspectives. Witchcraft is presented as part of social reality, strongly related to misfortune and involved in social relationships. The reality of the ascribed bewitching deeds, psychological mechanisms that may help bewitchment to work, circumstances in which bewitchment narratives can be mobilised, reasons for a person to acquire a reputation of the witch in the entire community, and the role that unwitchers fulfilled in the community, are but a few of the many topics discussed. In addition, the intertwinement of social witchcraft with narratives of supernatural experiences, closely associated with supernatural beings of European folklore, forming part of the overall witchcraft discourse in the area, is explored.   

Caracteristici

Argues that witchcraft forms part of our social reality Explores beliefs and practices in the rural region of Eastern Slovenia Reveals how social witchcraft and narratives of supernatural experience are entertwinned