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Fées, Sorcières et Loups-Garous au Moyen Âge

Author : Claude LECOUTEUX
Publisher : Editions Imago
ISBN 13 : 284952252X
Total Pages : 219 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (495 download)

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Download or read book Fées, Sorcières et Loups-Garous au Moyen Âge written by Claude LECOUTEUX and published by Editions Imago. This book was released on 2012-05-20 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fées, sorcières et loups-garous… Enchanteurs ou terrifiants, ces êtres mystérieux n’ont cessé de nous fasciner et demeurent encore présents dans nos récits, nos rêves et nos hantises. Mais de quelles croyances sont-ils la survivance ? Claude Lecouteux a décelé, dans les légendes germano-scandinaves et dans maints aspects de la culture européenne, une conception religieuse oubliée : l’âme, ou plutôt le Double — sous une forme humaine ou animale — peut s’échapper du corps pendant le sommeil, la transe ou même le coma, puis réintégrer son enveloppe charnelle. Et si certains subissent, bien malgré eux, cet étrange voyage, d’autres, parfois accusés de sorcellerie, savent le provoquer. http://www.editions-imago.fr/

Fées, sorcières et loups-garous au Moyen Age

Author : Claude Lecouteux
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9782702824931
Total Pages : 227 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (249 download)

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Download or read book Fées, sorcières et loups-garous au Moyen Age written by Claude Lecouteux and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Beautiful and the Monstrous

Author : Amaleena Damlé
Publisher : Peter Lang
ISBN 13 : 9783039119004
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (19 download)

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Download or read book The Beautiful and the Monstrous written by Amaleena Damlé and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2010 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The articles that appear in this collection were presented as papers at the Cambridge Annual French Graduate Conference held at King's College, Cambridge in April 2008"--P. [xi].

Witches, Werewolves, and Fairies

Author : Claude Lecouteux
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1594776822
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (947 download)

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Download or read book Witches, Werewolves, and Fairies written by Claude Lecouteux and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2003-07-23 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reveals the true nature of medieval belief in the Double of the Soul • Demonstrates the survival of a pagan belief that each individual owns three souls, including a double that can journey outside the physical body • Explains the nature of death and the Other World hidden beneath the monsters and superstitions in stories from the Middle Ages Monsters, werewolves, witches, and fairies remain a strong presence in our stories and dreams. But as Claude Lecouteux shows, their roots go far deeper than their appearance in medieval folklore; they are survivors of a much older belief system that predates Christianity and was widespread over Western Europe. Through his extensive analysis of Germano-Scandinavian legends, as well as those from other areas of Europe, Lecouteux has uncovered an almost forgotten religious concept: that every individual owns three souls and that one of these souls, the Double, can—in animal or human form—leave the physical body while in sleep or a trance, journey where it chooses, then reenter its physical body. While there were many who experienced this phenomenon involuntarily, there were others—those who attracted the unwelcome persecution of the Church—who were able to provoke it at will: witches. In a thorough excavation of the medieval soul, Claude Lecouteux reveals the origin and significance of this belief in the Double, and follows its transforming features through the ages. He shows that far from being fantasy or vague superstition, fairies, witches, and werewolves all testify to a consistent ancient vision of our world and the world beyond.

Arthurian Women

Author : Thelma S. Fenster
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134817533
Total Pages : 428 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (348 download)

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Download or read book Arthurian Women written by Thelma S. Fenster and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-12-22 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Featuring three original and 14 classic essays, this volume examines literary representations of women in Arthuriana and how women artists have viewed them. The essays discuss the female characters in Arthurian legend, medieval and modern readers of the legend, modern critics and the modern women writers who have recast the Arthurian inheritance, and finally women visual artists who have used the material of the Arthurian story. All the essays concentrate interpretation on a female creator and the work. This collection contains a useful bibliography of material devoted to female characters in Arthurian literature.

The Erotic in the Literature of Medieval Britain

Author : Amanda Hopkins
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
ISBN 13 : 1843841193
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (438 download)

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Download or read book The Erotic in the Literature of Medieval Britain written by Amanda Hopkins and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2007 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An examination of the erotic in medieval literature which includes articles on the role of clothing and nudity, the tension between eroticism and transgression and religion and the erotic.

Communicating with the Spirits

Author : G bor Klaniczay
Publisher : Central European University Press
ISBN 13 : 9789637326134
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (261 download)

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Download or read book Communicating with the Spirits written by G bor Klaniczay and published by Central European University Press. This book was released on 2005-01-01 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Shamanism [2 volumes]

Author : Mariko Namba Walter
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1576076466
Total Pages : 1088 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (76 download)

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Download or read book Shamanism [2 volumes] written by Mariko Namba Walter and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2004-12-15 with total page 1088 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A guide to worldwide shamanism and shamanistic practices, emphasizing historical and current cultural adaptations. This two-volume reference is the first international survey of shamanistic beliefs from prehistory to the present day. In nearly 200 detailed, readable entries, leading ethnographers, psychologists, archaeologists, historians, and scholars of religion and folk literature explain the general principles of shamanism as well as the details of widely varied practices. What is it like to be a shaman? Entries describe, region by region, the traits, such as sicknesses and dreams, that mark a person as a shaman, as well as the training undertaken by initiates. They detail the costumes, music, rituals, artifacts, and drugs that shamans use to achieve altered states of consciousness, communicate with spirits, travel in the spirit world, and retrieve souls. Unlike most Western books on shamanism, which focus narrowly on the individual's experience of healing and trance, Shamanism also examines the function of shamanism in society from social, political, and historical perspectives and identifies the ancient, continuous thread that connects shamanistic beliefs and rituals across cultures and millennia.

Body, Soul, Spirits and Supernatural Communication

Author : Éva Pócs
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1527526232
Total Pages : 503 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (275 download)

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Download or read book Body, Soul, Spirits and Supernatural Communication written by Éva Pócs and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2019-01-17 with total page 503 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a nuanced picture of the notions of body and soul held by the peoples of Europe through the soul concepts associated with the Judeo-Christian tradition and other religions and denominations; and the alternative traditions preserved alongside Christianity in folklore collections, linguistic and literary records. The studies also emphasize the connections between these notions and beliefs related to death and the dead, as well as questions of communication between the human world and the spirit world. The essays here focus on the roles notions of the soul and the spirit world play in the everyday life, religion and mentality of various communities; their folklore and literary representations, as well as the narrative metaphors, motifs, topoi and genres of ideas about the soul and about supernatural communication, along with questions of the relationship between narratives and religious notions. This book will appeal to researchers and students of religion, mythology, folklore and the anthropology of religion, as well as general readers interested in the humanities.

Magic and Magicians in the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Time

Author : Albrecht Classen
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110556529
Total Pages : 742 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (15 download)

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Download or read book Magic and Magicians in the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Time written by Albrecht Classen and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2017-10-23 with total page 742 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There are no clear demarcation lines between magic, astrology, necromancy, medicine, and even sciences in the pre-modern world. Under the umbrella term 'magic,' the contributors to this volume examine a wide range of texts, both literary and religious, both medical and philosophical, in which the topic is discussed from many different perspectives. The fundamental concerns address issue such as how people perceived magic, whether they accepted it and utilized it for their own purposes, and what impact magic might have had on the mental structures of that time. While some papers examine the specific appearance of magicians in literary texts, others analyze the practical application of magic in medical contexts. In addition, this volume includes studies that deal with the rise of the witch craze in the late fifteenth century and then also investigate whether the Weberian notion of disenchantment pertaining to the modern world can be maintained. Magic is, oddly but significantly, still around us and exerts its influence. Focusing on magic in the medieval world thus helps us to shed light on human culture at large.

Witchcraft Mythologies and Persecutions

Author : Gábor Klaniczay
Publisher : Central European University Press
ISBN 13 : 6155211507
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (552 download)

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Download or read book Witchcraft Mythologies and Persecutions written by Gábor Klaniczay and published by Central European University Press. This book was released on 2008-05-10 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This third, concluding volume of the series publishes 14 studies and the transcription of a round-table discussion on Carlo Ginzburg's Ecstasies. The themes of the previous two volumes, Communicating with the Spirits, and Christian Demonology and Popular Mythology, are further expanded here both as regards their interdisciplinary approach and the wide range of regional comparisons. While the emphasis of the second volume was on current popular belief and folklore as seen in the context of the historical sources on demonology, this volume approaches its subject from the point of view of historical anthropology. The greatest recent advances of witchcraft research occurred recently in two fields: (1) deciphering the variety of myths and the complexity of historical processes which lead to the formation of the witches' Sabbath, (2) the micro-historical analysis of the social, religious, legal and cultural milieu where witchcraft accusations and persecutions developed. These two themes are completed by some further insights into the folklore of the concerned regions which still carries the traces of the traumatic historical memories of witchcraft persecutions.

Dangerous Spirits

Author : Shawn Smallman
Publisher : Heritage House Publishing Co
ISBN 13 : 1772030325
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (72 download)

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Download or read book Dangerous Spirits written by Shawn Smallman and published by Heritage House Publishing Co. This book was released on 2015 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An examination of the role of windigo narratives among the Algonquian peoples of North American and how those narratives were influenced through colonialism.

Ghosts in the Middle Ages

Author : Jean-Claude Schmitt
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 9780226738888
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (388 download)

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Download or read book Ghosts in the Middle Ages written by Jean-Claude Schmitt and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using many different medieval texts, Schmitt examines medieval religious culture and the significance of the widespread belief in ghosts, asking who returned, to whom, from where, in what form, and why. Through this vivid study, we can see the ways in which the dead and the living related to each other. Schmitt focuses on everyday ghosts - recently departed ordinary people who were a part of the complex social world of the living. Schmitt argues that beliefs and the imaginary depend above all on the structures and functioning of society and culture, and he shows how the Christian culture of the Middle Ages enlarged the notion of ghosts and created many opportunities for the dead to appear. Schmitt also points out that the church happily proliferated ghost stories as a way to promote the liturgy of the dead, to develop pious sentiments among parishioners, and to solicit alms on behalf of a relative or friend's salvation.

The ‘Malleus Maleficarum‘ and the construction of witchcraft

Author : Hans Broedel
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 1847795676
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (477 download)

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Download or read book The ‘Malleus Maleficarum‘ and the construction of witchcraft written by Hans Broedel and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2013-07-19 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This electronic version has been made available under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-ND) open access license. The Malleus is an important text and is frequently quoted by authors across a wide range of scholarly disciplines. Yet it also presents serious difficulties: it is difficult to understand out of context, and is not generally representative of late medieval learned thinking. This, the first book-length study of the original text in English, provides students and scholars with an introduction to this controversial work and to the conceptual word of its authors. Like all witch-theorists, Institoris and Sprenger constructed their witch out of a constellation of pre-existing popular beliefs and learned traditions. Therefore, to understand the Malleus, one must also understand the contemporary and subsequent debates over the reality and nature of witches. This book argues that although the Malleus was a highly idiosyncratic text, its arguments were powerfully compelling and therefore remained influential long after alternatives were forgotten. Consequently, although focused on a single text, this study has important implications for fifteenth-century witchcraft theory. This is a fascinating work on the Malleus Maleficarum and will be essential to students and academics of late medieval and early modern history, religion and witchcraft studies.

Spirit Possession

Author : Éva Pócs
Publisher : Central European University Press
ISBN 13 : 9633864143
Total Pages : 556 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (338 download)

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Download or read book Spirit Possession written by Éva Pócs and published by Central European University Press. This book was released on 2022-05-31 with total page 556 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Possession, a seemingly irrational phenomenon, has posed challenges to generations of scholars rooted in Western notions of body-soul dualism, self and personhood, and a whole set of presuppositions inherited from Christian models of possession that was “good” or “bad.” The authors of the essays in this book present a new and more promising approach. They conceive spirit possession as a form of communication, of expressivity, of culturally defined behavior that should be understood in the context of local, vernacular theories and empiric reflections. With the aim of reformulating the comparative anthropology of spirit possession, the editors have opened corridors between previously separate areas of research. Together, anthropologists and historians working on several historical periods and in different European, African, South American, and Asian cultural areas attempt to redefine the very concept of possession, freeing it from the Western notion of the self and more clearly delineating it from related matters such as witchcraft, devotion, or mysticism. The book also provides an overview of new research directions, including novel methods of participant observation and approaches to spirit possession as indigenous historiography

Werewolves, Witches, and Wandering Spirits

Author : Kathryn A. Edwards
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 1935503731
Total Pages : 341 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (355 download)

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Download or read book Werewolves, Witches, and Wandering Spirits written by Kathryn A. Edwards and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2002-10-25 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bringing together scholars from Europe, America, and Australia, this volume explores the more fantastic elements of popular religious belief: ghosts, werewolves, spiritualism, animism, and of course, witchcraft. These traditional religious beliefs and practices are frequently treated as marginal in more synthetic studies of witchcraft and popular religion, yet Protestants and Catholics alike saw ghosts, imps, werewolves, and other supernatural entities as populating their world. Embedded within notarial and trial records are accounts that reveal the integration of folkloric and theological elements in early modern spirituality. Drawing from extensive archival research, the contributors argue for the integration of such beliefs into our understanding of late medieval and early modern Europe.

The Irresistible Fairy Tale

Author : Jack Zipes
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691153388
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (911 download)

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Download or read book The Irresistible Fairy Tale written by Jack Zipes and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on cognitive science, evolutionary theory, anthropology, psychology, literary theory, and other fields, Zipes presents a nuanced argument about how fairy tales originated in ancient oral cultures, how they evolved through the rise of literary culture and print, and much more.