1st Edition
Between the Living and the Dead A Perspective on Witches and Seers in the Early Modern Age
Edited By Éva Pócs
Copyright 1998
192 Pages
by
Central European University Press
Éva Pócs, one of the most highly respected scholars of historical anthropology, has undertaken extensive research on the history of folk beliefs connected with communication and the supernatural sphere. In this book, she examines the relics of European shamanism in early modern sources, and the techniques and belief-systems of mediators found in the records of witchcraft trials from the sixteenth... Read more
Introduction Chapter 1: The limitations and potential of the documentary sources Chapter 2: General conditions for communication with the supernatural Chapter 3: The belief figure of the witch Chapter 4: The malefactor witch Chapter 5: The alternative world of the witches’ sabbat Chapter 6: The healing witch Chapter 7: The enemies of the witch Afterword, Bibliography
Biography
Éva Pócs is Professor emeritus at the Department of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology, University of Pécs, Hungary.
Gábor Klaniczay is University Professor of Medieval Studies at the Central European University.
