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Witchcraft Continued provides an important collection of essays on the nature and understanding of witchcraft in European society over the last two centuries. It innovatively brings together the interests of historians with the fieldwork of anthropologists and sociologists on the continued relevance of witch beliefs. The book covers England, The Netherlands, Spain, Italy, Germany, France, Finland, Transylvania and Northern Ireland. It examines the experience of and attitudes towards witchcraft, demonstrating the widespread fear of witches among the masses during the nineteenth century, and the more restricted relevance of witchcraft in the twentieth century, along with the rise of the folklore movement. While the educated classes generally denounced witch-believers as either superstitious, foolish or both, secular and religious authorities still had to find strategies of dealing with the demands of those who believed themselves the victims of witchcraft.
Introduction: Witchcraft continued--Willem de Blécourt and Owen Davies
• A case of witchcraft assault in early nineteenth-century England as ostensive action--Stephen Mitchell
• Witchcraft, witch doctors and the fight against 'superstition' in nineteenth-century Germany--Nils Freytag
• The witch and the detective: Mid-Victorian stories and beliefs--Susan Hoyle
• Narrative and the social dynamics of magical harm in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Finland--Laura Stark
• Boiling chickens and burning cats: Witchcraft in the western Netherlands 1850-1925--Willem de Blécourt
• Witchcraft accusations in France 1850-1990--Owen Davies
• Magical healing in Spain (1875-1936): Medical pluralism in the search for hegemony--Enrique Perdiguero
• Witchcraft, healing and vernacular magic in Italy--Sabina Magliocco
• Curse, maleficium, divination: Witchcraft on the borderline of religion and magic--Éva Pócs
• Spooks and Spooks: Black magic and bogeymen in Northern Ireland 1973-74--Richard Jenkins
• Index
Overview
Witchcraft Continued provides an important collection of essays on the nature and understanding of witchcraft in European society over the last two centuries. It innovatively brings together the interests of historians with the fieldwork of anthropologists and sociologists on the continued relevance of witch beliefs. The book covers England, The Netherlands, Spain, Italy, Germany, France, Finland, Transylvania and Northern Ireland. It examines the experience of and attitudes towards witchcraft, demonstrating the ...