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001 99488078
003 DLC
005 20050915102716.0
008 990913s1999 enk b 001 0 eng
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050 00 $aBF1581$b.D29 1999
082 00 $a133.4/3/0941$221
100 1 $aDavies, Owen,$d1969-
245 10 $aWitchcraft, magic, and culture, 1736-1951 /$cOwen Davies.
260 $aManchester, UK ;$aNew York :$bManchester University Press ;$aNew York :$bDistributed in the USA by S. Martin's Press,$c1999.
300 $axiii, 337 p. ;$c24 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 296-329) and index.
505 8 $aMachine generated contents note: 1 EDUCATED ATTITUDES TOWARDS THE POPULAR BELIEF IN WITCHCRAFT AND MAGIC -- The denial of witchcraft and the defence of property 2 -- Witchcraft: an anachronism in the 'Age of Enlightenment' 7 -- Continuing religious interest in witchcraft -- Possession, religion and spiritualism 18 -- Witchcraft and insanity 39 -- Reforming the popular mind 44 -- The legal debate over the Witchcraft and Vagrancy Acts 6i 2 WITCHCRAFT AND POPULAR JUSTICE 79 -- The decline of witchcraft prosecutions 79 -- Authority's role in the persecution and prosecution of witches 83 -- Swimming: the popular adoption of a continental practice 86 -- The continued resort to figures of authority and their response ioo -- Witch-mobbing as an act offolk justice Io6 -- Witch-mobbing, the parish constable and the coming of the -- new police Iog -- 3 WITCHCRAFT, MAGIC AND POPULAR LITERATURE 120 -- Literacy and literature 121 -- Broadsides 124 -- Chapbooks 130 -- Prophecy 142 -- The witch and the Devil 147 -- Almanacs I53 -- Anti-superstition literature I57 -- 4 THE WITCH 167 -- Witches,folklore and belief I68 -- Characteristics of the archetypal witch 174 -- Fairies, flying and shape-shifting 184 -- The witch in court I93 -- Origins of accusations 201 -- Bewitchment and social space 207 -- 5 OCCULT PRACTITIONERS 214 -- Cunning-folk 214 -- Astrologers 229 -- Astrologers of London 236 -- Fortune-tellers 246 -- The reinvention offortune-telling 250 -- Gypsies 258 -- Fortune-telling and the First World War 266 -- 6 DECLINING BELIEF IN WITCHCRAFT 27I -- Measuring declining belief 272 -- Cultural change and the retiring witch 278 -- CONCLUSION 294.
650 0 $aWitchcraft$zGreat Britain$xHistory.
650 0 $aMagic$zGreat Britain$xHistory.
856 42 $3Contributor biographical information$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/bios/hol058/99488078.html
856 42 $3Publisher description$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/description/hol057/99488078.html
856 41 $3Table of contents$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/fy034/99488078.html