Focuses on the problem of communication with the other world: the phenomenon of spirit possession and its changing historical interpretations, the imaginary schemes elaborated for giving accounts of the journeys to the other world, for communicating with the dead, and finally the historical archetypes of this kind of religious manifestation-trance prophecy, divination, and shamanism. Recognized historians and ethnologists analyze the relationship, coexistence and conflicts of popular belief systems, Judeo-Christian mythology and demonology in medieval and modern Europe. The essays address links between rites and beliefs, folklore and literature; the legacy of various pre-Christian mythologies; the syncretic forms of ancient, medieval and modern belief- and rite-systems; "pure" examples from religious-ethnological research outside Europe to elucidate European problems.
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In the 1230s William of Auvergne, Bishop of Paris, was moved to comment upon the various non-canonical beliefs and practices of his less learned contemporaries. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
nighttime ladies, mora beings, possession phenomena, illness demons, champion des dames, folk belief systems, possessing devil, possession systems, divine possession, diabolic possession, witch beliefs, helping spirits, fairy faith, became witches, fairy folk, early modern age, belief figures Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Middle Ages, New York, Eastern European, Holy Spirit, Johannes Nider, L'imaginaire du Sabbat, Martin Le Franc, Old Norse, Catherine of Siena, Central Europe, Eastern Hungarian, Barbe Acarie, Bernard Gui, Council of Basel, Val Resia, Berkeley-Los Angeles, Cambridge University Press, Joan of Arc, Madame Acarie, Medieval Europe, Canon Episcopi, Chonrad Stoeckhlin, Errores Gazariorum, Johannes Tinctoris, Old Testament New!
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nighttime ladies, mora beings, possession phenomena, illness demons, champion des dames, folk belief systems, possessing devil, possession systems, divine possession, diabolic possession, witch beliefs, helping spirits, fairy faith, became witches, fairy folk, early modern age, belief figures Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Middle Ages, New York, Eastern European, Holy Spirit, Johannes Nider, L'imaginaire du Sabbat, Martin Le Franc, Old Norse, Catherine of Siena, Central Europe, Eastern Hungarian, Barbe Acarie, Bernard Gui, Council of Basel, Val Resia, Berkeley-Los Angeles, Cambridge University Press, Joan of Arc, Madame Acarie, Medieval Europe, Canon Episcopi, Chonrad Stoeckhlin, Errores Gazariorum, Johannes Tinctoris, Old Testament New!
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- Religion and the Decline of Magic: Studies in popular beliefs in sixteenth and seventeenth century England by Keith Thomas on 5 pages
- Late Antiquity by Peter Brown on page 136, page 141, and page 187
- Joan of Arc: The Image of Female Heroism by Marina Warner on page 66, and page 70
- The Middle Ages by Morris Bishop on page 21, and page 25
- RL E: Anthropology and Ethnography: Witchcraft Confessions and Accusations (Routledge Library Editions: Anthropology and Ethnography) by Mary Douglas on page 141, and page 146
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