Overview
- Shortlisted for the Folklore Society's 2018 Katharine Briggs Folklore Award
- Examines urban and rural witchcraft conflicts from early modern times to the present
- Analyses the role of healers, midwives, and cunning folk in social, legal, medical and religious contexts
- Traces the decriminalisation of witchcraft and decline of persecution in Hungary and Transylvania
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Palgrave Historical Studies in Witchcraft and Magic (PHSWM)
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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About this book
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Éva Pócs is Professor Emeritus at the University of Pécs, Hungary. Her main areas of research are folk religion and folk beliefs, and witchcraft and demonology. Her previous publications include Fairies and Witches at the Boundary of South-Eastern and Central Europe (1989) and Between the Living and the Dead: A Perspective on Witches and Seers in the Early Modern Age (1998).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Witchcraft and Demonology in Hungary and Transylvania
Editors: Gábor Klaniczay, Éva Pócs
Series Title: Palgrave Historical Studies in Witchcraft and Magic
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-54756-5
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: History, History (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and the Author(s) 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-54755-8Published: 14 December 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-85471-7Published: 30 August 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-54756-5Published: 29 November 2017
Series ISSN: 2731-5630
Series E-ISSN: 2731-5649
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 412
Topics: History of Early Modern Europe, History of Germany and Central Europe, History of Modern Europe, Russian, Soviet, and East European History, Cultural History