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The book provides a comprehensive exploration of witchcraft beliefs and practices in the rural region of Eastern Slovenia. Based on field research conducted at the beginning of the twenty-first century, it examines witchcraft in the region from folkloristic, anthropological, as well as historical, perspectives. Witchcraft is presented as part of social reality, strongly related to misfortune and involved in social relationships. The reality of the ascribed bewitching deeds, psychological mechanisms that may help bewitchment to work, circumstances in which bewitchment narratives can be mobilised, reasons for a person to acquire a reputation of the witch in the entire community, and the role that unwitchers fulfilled in the community, are but a few of the many topics discussed. In addition, the intertwinement of social witchcraft with narratives of supernatural experiences, closely associated with supernatural beings of European folklore, forming part of the overall witchcraft discourse in the area, is explored. .

Philosophy. --- Ethnology. --- Europe --- Social history. --- Political philosophy. --- Ethnography. --- Political Philosophy. --- History of Modern Europe. --- Social History. --- Social Anthropology. --- Cultural Anthropology. --- History—1492-. --- Witchcraft --- Magic --- History. --- Slovenia --- Magick --- Necromancy --- Sorcery --- Spells --- Black art (Witchcraft) --- Ljudska republika Slovenija --- LRS --- SRS --- L.R.S. --- S.R.S. --- S.R. Slovenija --- Slovenija --- Socijalistička Republika Slovenija --- SR Slovenija --- Slowenien --- Socialistična republika Slovenija --- Republika Slovenija --- Republic of Slovenia --- Slovenii︠a︡ --- Socialist Republic of Slovenia --- People's Republic of Slovenia --- Szlovénia --- Eslovènia --- Occultism --- Wicca --- LRS (Ljudska republika Slovenija) --- SRS (Socijalistička Republika Slovenija) --- L.R.S. (Ljudska republika Slovenija) --- S.R.S. (Socijalistička Republika Slovenija) --- Political science --- Europe-History-1492-. --- Cultural anthropology --- Ethnography --- Races of man --- Social anthropology --- Anthropology --- Human beings --- Descriptive sociology --- Social conditions --- Social history --- History --- Sociology --- Political philosophy --- Europe—History—1492-. --- Styria, Lower (Slovenia) --- Lower Styria (Slovenia) --- Slovensko Štajersko (Slovenia) --- Untersteiermark (Slovenia) --- Folklore.