TY  - GEN
AU  - Montesano,Marina
TI  - Witchcraft, Demonology and Magic
SN  - books978-3-03928-960-8
PY  - 2020///
PB  - MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
KW  - magic
KW  - n/a
KW  - divination
KW  - religious history
KW  - Thomas Hobbes
KW  - Bavaria
KW  - classical culture
KW  - folklore
KW  - Catholic reform
KW  - dissolution of the monasteries
KW  - animals
KW  - Franciscan and Dominican friars
KW  - Early Modern History
KW  - friars
KW  - demonic possession
KW  - Trier
KW  - Adriaan Koerbagh
KW  - gynecology
KW  - biblical exegesis
KW  - Franconia
KW  - monasticism
KW  - witch-hunting in Hungary
KW  - exorcism
KW  - Italy
KW  - convent cases
KW  - Germany
KW  - monks
KW  - popular belief
KW  - ritual magic
KW  - Inquisition
KW  - devil
KW  - media
KW  - counter-reformation
KW  - inquisition
KW  - Holy Office
KW  - English reformation
KW  - witch trials
KW  - spells
KW  - France
KW  - witchcraft
KW  - popular/vernacular magic in Hungary
KW  - witchcraft and sorcery in Hungary
KW  - Witchcraft
KW  - familiars
KW  - counter-reformation Italy
KW  - treasure hunting
KW  - heresy
KW  - medicine
KW  - priests
KW  - love magic
KW  - Spain
KW  - Protestant demonology
KW  - sorcery
KW  - superstition
KW  - witch-hunting in Debrecen/Bihar county
KW  - Calvinist demonology in Hungary
KW  - Jesuits
KW  - censorship
KW  - witch-hunts
KW  - demonology
N1  - Open Access
N2  - Witchcraft 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
UR  - https://mdpi.com/books/pdfview/book/2289
UR  - https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/62774
ER  -