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Christian demonology and popular mythology [electronic resource]

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The authors—recognized historians, ethnologists, folklorists coming from four continents—present the latest research findings on the relationship, coexistence and conflicts of popular belief systems, Judeo-Christian mythology and demonology in medieval and modern Europe. The present volume focuses on the divergence between Western and Eastern evolution, on the different relationship of learned demonology to popular belief systems in the two parts of Europe. It discusses the conflict of saints, healers, seers, shamans with the representatives of evil; the special function of escorting, protecting, possessing, harming and healing spirits; the role of the dead, the ghosts, of pre-Christian, Jewish and Christian spirit-world, the antagonism of the devil and the saint.

Title Christian demonology and popular mythology [electronic resource] : demons, spirits and witches / edited by Gabor Klaniczay and Eva Pocs.
Publisher Hungary : Central European University Press
Creation Date 2006
Notes Description based upon print version of record.
English
Content TABLE OF CONTENTS
Contents of the first and the third volume
Introduction
Demons in Krakow, and Image Magic in a Magical Handbook
"A Wall of Bronze " or Demons versus Saints: Whose victory?
An Iconographical Approach to Representations of the Devil in Medieval Hungary
Talking with Demons. Early Modern Theories and Practice
Protestant Devil Figures in Hungary
The Devil and Birthgiving
Serpent - damsels and dragon - slayers: Overlapping divinities in a medieval tradition
Jewish, Noble, German, or Peasant? -The Devil in Early Modern Poland
Sexual Encounters with Spirits and Demons in Early Modern Sweden: Popular and Learned Concepts in Conflict and InteractionChurch demonology and popular beliefs in early modern Sweden
Saintly and Sympathetic Magic in the Lore of the Jews of Carpatho-Russia Between the Two World Wars
Magic as Reflected in Slovenian Folk Tradition and Popular Healing Today
Categories of the "Evil Dead" in Macedonian Folk Religion
Balkan demons protecting places
Demons of Fate in Macedonian Folk Beliefs
Gog and Magog in the Slovenian folk tradition
Systematization of the Concept of Demonic and Evil in Mongolian Folk ReligionLIST OF CONTRIBUTORS
INDEX
Series Demons, spirits, witches
v.2
Extent 1 online resource (294 p.)
Language English
National Library system number 997010712700505171
MARC RECORDS
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