TY - BOOK ID - 31261002 TI - Witchcraft and Demonology in Hungary and Transylvania AU - Klaniczay, Gábor. AU - Pócs, Éva. PY - 2017 SN - 3319547569 3319547550 PB - Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, DB - UniCat KW - Witchcraft KW - Demonology KW - Demonology, Christian KW - Demons KW - Evil spirits KW - Spirits KW - Spiritual warfare KW - Black art (Witchcraft) KW - Sorcery KW - Occultism KW - Wicca KW - Europe-History-1492-. KW - Europe, Central-History. KW - Russia-History. KW - Civilization-History. KW - History of Early Modern Europe. KW - History of Germany and Central Europe. KW - History of Modern Europe. KW - Russian, Soviet, and East European History. KW - Cultural History. KW - Europe—History—1492-. KW - Europe, Central—History. KW - Russia—History. KW - Europe, Eastern—History. KW - Civilization—History. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:31261002 AB - This book provides a selection of studies on witchcraft and demonology by those involved in an interdisciplinary research group begun in Hungary thirty years ago. They examine urban and rural witchcraft conflicts from early modern times to the present, from a region hitherto rarely taken into consideration in witchcraft research. Special attention is given to healers, midwives, and cunning folk, including archaic sorcerer figures such as the táltos; whose ambivalent role is analysed in social, legal, medical and religious contexts. This volume examines how waves of persecution emerged and declined, and how witchcraft was decriminalised. Fascinating case-studies on vindictive witch-hunters, quarrelling neighbours, rivalling midwives, cunning shepherds, weather magician impostors, and exorcist Franciscan friars provide a colourful picture of Hungarian and Transylvanian folk beliefs and mythologies, as well as insights into historical and contemporary issues. ER -