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100	1		_aMontesano, Marina _4auth
245	1	0	_aWitchcraft, Demonology and Magic
260			_bMDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute _c2020
300			_a1 electronic resource (160 p.)
506	0		_aOpen Access _2star _fUnrestricted online access
520			_aWitchcraft and magic are topics of enduring interest for many reasons. The main one lies in their extraordinary interdisciplinarity: anthropologists, folklorists, historians, and more have contributed to build a body of work of extreme variety and consistence. Of course, this also means that the subjects themselves are not easy to assess. In a very general way, we can define witchcraft as a supernatural means to cause harm, death, or misfortune, while magic also belongs to the field of supernatural, or at least esoteric knowledge, but can be used to less dangerous effects (e.g., divination and astrology). In Western civilization, however, the witch hunt has set a very peculiar perspective in which diabolical witchcraft, the invention of the Sabbat, the persecution of many thousands of (mostly) female and (sometimes) male presumed witches gave way to a phenomenon that is fundamentally different from traditional witchcraft. This Special Issue of Religions dedicated to Witchcraft, Demonology, and Magic features nine articles that deal with four different regions of Europe (England, Germany, Hungary, and Italy) between Late Medieval and Modern times in different contexts and social milieus. Far from pretending to offer a complete picture, they focus on some topics that are central to the research in those fields and fit well in the current “cumulative concept of Western witchcraft” that rules out all mono-causality theories, investigating a plurality of causes.
540			_aCreative Commons _fhttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ _2cc _4https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
546			_aEnglish
653			_amagic
653			_an/a
653			_adivination
653			_areligious history
653			_aThomas Hobbes
653			_aBavaria
653			_aclassical culture
653			_afolklore
653			_aCatholic reform
653			_adissolution of the monasteries
653			_aanimals
653			_aFranciscan and Dominican friars
653			_aEarly Modern History
653			_afriars
653			_ademonic possession
653			_aTrier
653			_aAdriaan Koerbagh
653			_agynecology
653			_abiblical exegesis
653			_aFranconia
653			_amonasticism
653			_awitch-hunting in Hungary
653			_aexorcism
653			_aItaly
653			_aconvent cases
653			_aGermany
653			_amonks
653			_apopular belief
653			_aritual magic
653			_aInquisition
653			_adevil
653			_amedia
653			_acounter-reformation
653			_ainquisition
653			_aHoly Office
653			_aEnglish reformation
653			_awitch trials
653			_aspells
653			_aFrance
653			_awitchcraft
653			_apopular/vernacular magic in Hungary
653			_awitchcraft and sorcery in Hungary
653			_aWitchcraft
653			_afamiliars
653			_acounter-reformation Italy
653			_atreasure hunting
653			_aheresy
653			_amedicine
653			_apriests
653			_alove magic
653			_aSpain
653			_aProtestant demonology
653			_asorcery
653			_asuperstition
653			_awitch-hunting in Debrecen/Bihar county
653			_aCalvinist demonology in Hungary
653			_aJesuits
653			_acensorship
653			_awitch-hunts
653			_ademonology
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