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Werewolves, witches, and wandering spirits : traditional belief & folklore in early modern Europe / edited by Kathryn A. Edwards.

Contributor(s): Edwards, Kathryn A, 1964-
Material type: TextTextSeries: Sixteenth century essays & studies: v. 62.Publisher: Kirksville, Mo. : Truman State University Press, [2002]Copyright date: ©2002Description: xxii, 226 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 1931112096 (casebound : alk. paper); 1931112088 (pbk. : alk. paper)Subject(s): Folklore -- Europe | Folk literature -- Europe -- History and criticism | Supernatural | Witchcraft -- Europe | Demonology -- EuropeDDC classification: 398/.094 LOC classification: GR135 | .W47 2002
Contents:
expanding the analysis of traditional belief / Kathryn A. Edwards -- Dangerous spirits : shapeshifting, apparitions, and fantasy in Lorraine witchcraft trials / Robin Briggs -- Living with the dead : ghosts in early modern Bavaria / David Lederer -- Reformed or recycled? : possession and exorcism in the sacramental life of early modern France / Sarah Ferber -- Revisiting El Encubierto : navigating between visions of Heaven and Hell on Earth / Sara T. Nalle -- Worms and the Jews : Jews, magic, and community in seventeenth-century Worms / Dean Phillip Bell -- Asmodea : a nun-witch in eighteenth-century Tuscany / Anne Jacobson Schutte -- When witches became false : séducteurs and crédules confront the Paris police at the beginning of the eighteenth century / Ulrike Krampl -- God killed Saul : Heinrich Bullinger and Jacob Ruef on the power of the devil / Bruce Gordon -- Such an impure, cruel, and savage beast : images of the werewolf in demonological works / Nicole Jacques-Lefèvre -- Charcot, Freud, and the demons / H. C. Erik Midelfort.

Introduction : expanding the analysis of traditional belief / Kathryn A. Edwards -- Dangerous spirits : shapeshifting, apparitions, and fantasy in Lorraine witchcraft trials / Robin Briggs -- Living with the dead : ghosts in early modern Bavaria / David Lederer -- Reformed or recycled? : possession and exorcism in the sacramental life of early modern France / Sarah Ferber -- Revisiting El Encubierto : navigating between visions of Heaven and Hell on Earth / Sara T. Nalle -- Worms and the Jews : Jews, magic, and community in seventeenth-century Worms / Dean Phillip Bell -- Asmodea : a nun-witch in eighteenth-century Tuscany / Anne Jacobson Schutte -- When witches became false : séducteurs and crédules confront the Paris police at the beginning of the eighteenth century / Ulrike Krampl -- God killed Saul : Heinrich Bullinger and Jacob Ruef on the power of the devil / Bruce Gordon -- Such an impure, cruel, and savage beast : images of the werewolf in demonological works / Nicole Jacques-Lefèvre -- Charcot, Freud, and the demons / H. C. Erik Midelfort.

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