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Encyclopedia of witchcraft : the Western tradition
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ISBN: 9781576072431 1576072436 1851095128 9781851095124 Year: 2006 Publisher: Santa Barbara [Calif.] : ABC-CLIO,

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Christian demonology and popular mythology
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ISBN: 9786155211010 9786155211010 9786155211010 6155211019 1281268674 9786611268671 1429413441 9781429413442 Year: 2006 Publisher: Budapest New York Central European University Press

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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.

Spellbound
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ISBN: 9780781443609 Year: 2006 Publisher: Colorado Springs, Colorado Life Journey/Cook Communications Ministries

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Magic, ritual, and witchcraft.
ISSN: 15568547 19405111 Year: 2006 Publisher: Philadelphia, PA : University of Pennsylvania Press

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Magic and impotence in the Middle Ages.
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ISBN: 0199282226 9780199282227 0191713023 1429491264 9786610869947 0191536040 1280869941 Year: 2006 Publisher: Oxford Oxford university press


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Religion und Magie in Ostmitteleuropa : Spielräume theologischer Normierungsprozesse in Spätmittelalter und Früher Neuzeit.
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ISBN: 9783825892739 3825892735 Year: 2006 Volume: 8 Publisher: Berlin LIT

Through a glass darkly : magic, dreams & prophecy in ancient Egypt
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ISBN: 1905125089 9781905125081 Year: 2006 Publisher: Swansea : Classical Press of Wales,

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Magico-medical means of treating ghost-induced illnesses in Ancient Mesopotamia
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ISBN: 9004123970 9047404173 1435614542 9781435614543 9789004123977 9789047404170 Year: 2006 Volume: 3 Publisher: Leiden Boston : Brill/Styx,

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This work explores the interaction between magic and medicine in ancient Mesopotamia, as applied specifically to ghosts. Included is a discussion of sin and natural causes in Mesopotamian medicine. Additionally, it transliterates and translates 352 prescriptions designed to cure psychological and physical ailments thought to be caused by ghosts.

Runic amulets and magic objects
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ISBN: 1846155045 1843832054 Year: 2006 Publisher: Suffolk : Boydell & Brewer,

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A fresh examination of one of the most contentious issues in runic scholarship - magical or not? The runic alphabet, in use for well over a thousand years, was employed by various Germanic groups in a variety of ways, including, inevitably, for superstitious and magical rites. Formulaic runic words were inscribed onto small items that could be carried for good luck; runic charms were carved on metal or wooden amulets to ensure peace or prosperity. There are invocations and allusions to pagan and Christian gods and heroes, to spirits of disease, and even to potential lovers. Few such texts are completely unique to Germanic society, and in fact, most of the runic amulets considered in this book show wide-ranging parallels from a variety of European cultures. The question of whether runes were magical or not has divided scholarship in the area. Early criticism embraced fantastic notions of runic magic - leading not just to a healthy scepticism, but in some cases to a complete denial of any magical element whatsoever in the runic inscriptions. This book seeks to re-evaulate the whole question of runic sorcery, attested to not only in the medieval Norse literature dealing with runes but primarily in the fascinating magical texts of the runic inscriptions themselves. Dr MINDY MCLEOD teaches in the Department of Linguistics, Deakin University, Melbourne; Dr BERNARD MEES teaches in the Department of History at the University of Melbourne.

Justice et sorcellerie : colloque international de Yaoundé (17-19 mars 2005)
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ISBN: 2845867050 2845867050 2848490012 9782845867055 Year: 2006 Publisher: Paris : Karthala,

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