Witchcraft Continued: Popular Magic in Modern Europe

Table of contents

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• Witchcraft Continued i
• Title Page iii
• Contents v
• Contributors vii
• Introduction- Witchcraft Continued 1
• 1 - A Case of Witchcraft Assault in Early Nineteenth-Century England as Ostensive Action 14
• 2 - Witchcraft, Witch Doctors and the Fight against ‘superstition’ in Nineteenth-Century Germany 29
• 3 - The Witch and the Detective- Mid-Victorian Stories and Beliefs 46
• 4 - Narrative and the Social Dynamics of Magical Harm in Late Nineteenth- And Early Twentieth-Century Finland 69
• 5 - Boiling Chickens and Burning Cats- Witchcraft in the Western Netherlands, 1850–1925 89
• 6 - Witchcraft Accusations in France, 1850–1990 107
• 7 - Magical Healing in Spain (1875–1936)- Medical Pluralism and the Search for Hegemony1 133
• 8 - Witchcraft, Healing and Vernacular Magic in Italy 151
• 9 - Curse, Maleficium, Divination- Witchcraft on the Borderline of Religion and Magic 174
• 10 - Spooks and Spooks- Black Magic and Bogeymen in Northern Ireland, 1973–741 191
• Index 213