Christian Demonology and Popular Mythology

Contents of the first and the third volumes

CONTENTS OF ThE FIrST AND ThE ThIrD vOLuME CommuniCating With the sPirits (DEMONS, SPIRITS, WITCHES 1) Discernment of spirits and Possession nancy Caciola, Breath, Heart, Guts: The Body and Spirits in the Middle Ages renata mikolajczyk, non sunt nisi phantasiae et imaginationes: a Medieval Attempt at Explaining Demons moshe sluhovsky, Discerning Spirits in Early Modern Europe sophie houdard, Mystics or Visionaries? Discernment of Spirits in the First Part of the Seventeenth Century in France Éva Pócs, Possession Phenomena, Possession-systems. Some East-Central European Examples Contacts with the other World Wolfgang behringer, How Waldensians Became Witches: Heretics and Their Journey to the Other World tok Thompson, Hosting the Dead: Thanotopic Aspects of the Irish sidhe roberto Dapit, Visions of the Other World as Narrated in Contemporary Belief Legends from Resia Divination, shamanism Christa tuczay, Trance Prophets and Diviners in the Middle Ages Peter buchholz, Shamanism in Medieval Scandinavian Literature rune blix hagen, The King, the Cat, and the Chaplain. King Christian IV’s Encounter with the Sami Shamans of Northern Norway and Northern Russia in 1599 viii Contents oF the First anD the thirD volume WitChCraFt mythologies anD PerseCutions (DEMONS, SPIRITS, WITCHES 3) mythologies martine ostorero, The Concept of the Witches’ Sabbath in the Alpine Region (1430–1440) Text and Context round-table discussion on Ecstasies by Carlo ginzburg (with the participation of Wolfgang behringer, Carlo ginzburg, gustav henningsen, gábor Klaniczay, giovanni Pizza and Éva Pócs) gábor Klaniczay, Learned Systems and Popular Narratives of Vision and Bewitchment adelina angusheva, Late Medieval Witch Mythologies in the Balkans Per sörlin, Child-Witches and the Construction of the Witches´ Sabbath: The Swedish Blåkulla Story legal mechanisms, social contexts Péter tóth g., River Ordeal–Trial by Water–Swimming of Witches: Procedures of Ordeal in Witchcraft Trials ildikó Kristóf, How to Make a (Legal) Pact with the Devil? Legal Customs and Literacy in Witch Confessions in Early Modern Hungary anna brzezińska, Healing at the Jagiellonian Court Polina melik simonian, Following the Traces of Xenophobia in Muscovite Witchcraft Investigation Records Judit Kis-halas, Trial of an Honest Citizen, Nagybánya 1704-5: The Social and Cultural Context of Witchcraft Accusations—a Tentative Microanalysis Daniel ryan, Boundaries and Transgressions: Witchcraft and Community Conflict in Estonia During the Late Nineteenth Century Witchcraft and folklore Francisco vaz da silva, Extraordinary Children, Werewolves and Witches in Portuguese Folk-Tradition Ülo valk, Reflections of Folk Belief and Legends at the Witch Trials of Estonia iveta todorova-Pirgova, Witches and Priests in the Bulgarian Village: Past and Present mirjam mencej, Witchcraft in Eastern Slovenia ...