| Description |
xxii, 226 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Series |
Sixteenth century essays & studies ; v. 62
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction : expanding the analysis of traditional belief / Kathryn A. Edwards -- Dangerous spirits : shapeshifting, apparitions, and fantasy in Lorraine witchcraft trials / Robin Briggs -- Living with the dead : ghosts in early modern Bavaria / David Lederer -- Reformed or recycled? : possession and exorcism in the sacramental life of early modern France / Sarah Ferber -- Revisiting El Encubierto : navigating between visions of Heaven and Hell on Earth / Sara T. Nalle -- Worms and the Jews : Jews, magic, and community in seventeenth-century Worms / Dean Phillip Bell -- Asmodea : a nun-witch in eighteenth-century Tuscany / Anne Jacobson Schutte -- When witches became false : seducteurs and credules confront the Paris police at the beginning of the eighteenth century / Ulrike Krampl -- God killed Saul : Heinrich Bullinger and Jacob Ruef on the power of the devil / Bruce Gordon -- Such an impure, cruel, and savage beast : images of the werewolf in demonological works / Nicole Jacques-Lefevre -- Charcot, Freud, and the demons / H.C. Erik Midelfort. |
| Subject |
Folklore -- Europe.
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Folk literature -- Europe -- History and criticism.
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Supernatural.
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Witchcraft -- Europe.
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Demonology -- Europe.
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| Added Author |
Edwards, Kathryn A., 1964-
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| ISBN |
1931112096 (casebound : alk. paper) |
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9781931112093 (casebound : alk. paper) |
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1931112088 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
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9781931112086 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
| Standard No. |
NLGGC 245108335 |
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YDXCP 1913513 |
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NZ1 6720297 |
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AU@ 000023327851 |
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IG# 9781931112093 |
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