Christian Demonology and Popular Mythology

Published by Central European University Press 2006

Christian Demonology and Popular Mythology

Edited by: Gábor Klaniczay and Éva Pócs

Volume 2 in the series Demons, Spirits, Witches

https://doi.org/10.1515/9786155211010

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About this book

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.

Author / Editor information

Klaniczay Gábor :

Gábor Klaniczay is University Professor of Medieval Studies at the Central European University.

Pócs Éva :

Éva Pócs is Professor emeritus at the Department of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology, University of Pécs, Hungary.

Reviews

"The focus is limited to central and eastern Europe and Scandinavia. This is quite valuable, insofar as there is no great surplus of scholarship on the topics of magic, witchcraft, and demonology from these lands - certainly not scholarship readily available to western European or North American academics generally limited to English, French, and German. Presenting a number of studies from these eastern (and northern) regions in English is a worthwhile service."

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
TABLE OF CONTENTS Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Contents of the first and the third volume Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Introduction Gábor Klaniczay and Éva Pócs Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Part I Learned Demonology, Images of the Devil
Demons in Krakow, and Image Magic in a Magical Handbook Benedek Láng Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	13
“A Wall of Bronze” or Demons versus Saints: Whose Victory? Anna Kuznetsova Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	45
An Iconographical Approach to Representations of the Devil in Medieval Hungary Erzsébet Tatai Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	54
Talking With Demons. Early Modern Theories and Practice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . György E. Szőnyi Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	72
Protestant Devil Figures in Hungary Éva Szacsvay Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	89
The Devil and Birthgiving Ulrika Wolf-Knuts Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	109
Part II Exchanges between Elite and Popular Concepts
Serpent-damsels and Dragon-slayers: Overlapping Divinities in a Medieval Tradition Karen P. Smith Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	121
Jewish, Noble, German, or Peasant? — The Devil in Early Modern Poland Wanda Wyporska Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	139
Sexual Encounters with Spirits and Demons in Early Modern Sweden: Popular and Learned Concepts in Conflict and Interaction Jonas Liliequist Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	152
Church Demonology and Popular Beliefs in Early Modern Sweden Soili-Maria Olli Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	170
Part III Evil Magic and Demons in East European and Asian Folklore
Saintly and Sympathetic Magic in the Lore of the Jews of Carpatho-Russia Between the Two World Wars Ilana Rosen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	183
Magic as Reflected in Slovenian Folk Tradition and Popular Healing Today Monika Kropej Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	194
Categories of the “Evil Dead” in Macedonian Folk Religion L’upcho S. Risteski Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	202
Balkan Demons’ Protecting Places Anna Plotnikova Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	213
Demons of Fate in Macedonian Folk Beliefs Vesna Petreska Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	221
Gog and Magog in the Slovenian Folk Tradition Zmago Šmitek Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	237
Systematization of the Concept of Demonic and Evil in Mongolian Folk Religion Ágnes Birtalan Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	250
List of Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	265
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	271

Language: English
Publisher: Central European University Press
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 292
Keywords: Anthropology; Balkan; Early modern Europe; Folklore; Jews; Medieval; Persecutions

eBook

Published: October 10, 2006
ISBN: 9786155211010