Communicating with the Spirits

Index

INDEX Abaújdevecser (Hungary), 106 abduction / carrying away/off / rapture, 57, 78, 92–93, 95–97, 100 103, 112–14, 119, 128, 133–34, 139, 197, 224, 226–28 Acarie, Barbe (Madame Acarie), 72–73, 75, 77–78 Adelard of Bath, 46 Adeline, Guillaume, 168 Aeolus, 253, 256 Africa, 94 South, 236 Albertus Magnus, Saint, 45 Alexander V, Pope, 156 Aley [Adelheid?], wife of Thyde Takken of Bowmgarten, 176 Algazel (Al-Ghazali), 48 All Saint’s Day, 208 All Soul’s Day / night, 208 alms, 250. See also dead, intercession for Alps French, 156 German, 178–79 Italian side of, 158 Italian, 178 of Wallis, 164 Alsace, 180 alter ego, 91–93, 107–09, 118–20, 129 altered states of consciousness / ASC, 84, 86, 88, 128, 215–16, 223 Alumbrados, 57, 77 Amadeus VIII, Duke of Savoy, 156, 164 America, North and Central, 236 Amsterdam, 3 amulet / talisman, 123 ancestors cult of, 239 270 COMMUNICATING WITH THE SPIRITS Andreasi, Osanna (of Mantua), Blessed, 27, 29, 32 Andrews, 197 angels, 8, 32, 43, 54–55, 75, 111, 173, 176, 178, 224 good, 21, 60, 61, 71–72, 74–76 guardian, 128 fallen / bad, 41, 46, 60–61, 71–72, 75 of death, 111 animism, 236 Anne of Austria, 76 Anonymous of Passau, 180 Anonymous Carthusian, 169 Anthony, Saint, 106, 135 Antichrist, 218, 229 Anund of Nidaros, mate at the ship Victor, 251, 253, 255 Aosta valley, 164, 184 Savoyard, 158 Aosta, the diocese of, 184 Apollo, 125 Apostles, 64 apparitions, 6–7, 22, 43, 79, 206 demonic, 41, 43, 112 false, 43 of the dead, 207 Apuleius, Lucius 226 Aquinas, Thomas, Saint, 35, 223 Arctic, 87 Arctic Circle, 249 Arctic Ocean, 246, 249 Aristotle, 46, 216 Arkhangelsk, 247 Arras, 167–68, 184 Artemis, 103 Asia, North, 92 Asklepios, 138 astrology, 216 Atharvaveda, 105 Audisio, Gabriel, 169, 175, 181, 183 Augsburg, prince-bishopric of, 178 Augury, 216 Augustine, Saint, 47, 64, 66, 157, 222 augustinianism, 75 Austria, 107, 170, 175, 178, 180 Western 179 LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS 271 Avicenna (Ibn Sina), 44, 48 axis mundi, 133 Babylon, 94 Balkans, 3, 10, 94, 100, 102–04, 127, 129, 134–36 Orthodox, 116 Baltic countries, 4 banshee, 193 baptism, 114, 122, 138 Basel, 156, 160, 166 Council of, 164–68, 184 bean sí / sidhe, 193–96, 200–01 beata/s, 53, 58, 65 Beelzebub, 258 Beelzebub’s flies, 258 Behringer, Wolfgang, 8, 155 Bélibaste, Guillaume, 172 Benedict XII, pope, 173 Benedictines, 223 benediction / blessing, 104–05, 122–23, 135, 138, 209–10 Bentsson Dall, Anders, court chaplain, 253–54 Benz, Ernst, 85, 139 Bergamo, Mino, 79–80 Bern, 166, 172, 176 Bernard of Prambach, Bishop of Passau, 175 Bernardino of Siena, Saint, 184 berserkr / úlfhedinn, 242, 243 Berthold of Regensburg, 221 Bérulle, Pierre de, 63–64, 73–74, 76 Besessenheitschamanismus, 139 bewitched, 60 bewitchment, 10, 258, 261 Biller, Peter, 182–83 binding and resolving, 175 black bile, 42 Blauert, Andreas, 155 Blécourt, Willem de, 5 Blum, Richard and Eva, 101, 126 Boddy, Janice, 133 Bodin, Jean, 63, 258 body, 21, 31, 33–34, 60–62, 75 female, 22–23, 26, 27 open, 23, 26–27, 29 272 COMMUNICATING WITH THE SPIRITS Boehme, Jacob, 228 Boetia, 229 Bohemia, 170, 175, 180 Borromeo, Carlo, 71 Bourbon, Étienne de, 24 Bourguignon, Erica, 86–87 Bouteiller, Marcelle, 139 Boyer, Régis, 239 Braid, James, 229 Brandenburg, 176 Bremond, Henri, 71 Breull, Diell, 178 Briançon, 165 Bridget of Sweden, Saint, 66, 224, 229 Briggs, Katherine, 197, 199–200 Britain, 198 British Isles, 195, 198–99 Brittany, 199 Brossier, Marthe, 62–63 Brown, Peter, 135 Bruges, 168 Buchholz, Peter, 10, 234 Budapest, 1–3 Burgundy, 168 burial, 209 Bussesundet, 247 Butler, Judith, 27–28 Bynum, Caroline Walker, 27 Byzantium, 135 Caciola, Nancy, 7, 21, 56, 66 Caen, 81 Caesarius of Heisterbach, 34 Calchas, 216 căluşarii, 129–30 Cameron, Euan, 183 Campbell, 197 Carisius, Jonas, 249–50, 255–56, 260 Carlini, Benedetta, 54 Castañega, Martín de, 57–8 Castile, 57 Catherine of Siena, Saint, 25, 29, 32, 54, 66, 224, 229 Cavalese, 178 LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS 273 Celestinians, 170 Central Asia, 235 Central European University, 3 Certeau, Michel de, 78–79 Chalcidius, 44 Chambéry, 164 changelings, 197 chantilly, 133 chapbook, 110 Charles of Borromeo, Saint, 71 Chenu, Marie-Dominique, 45 Chiara da Montefalco, Saint, 35 China, 94, 236 Cholera, 42 Christian, 128 Christian IV, King of Denmark and Norway, 10...