Christian Demonology and Popular Mythology
(Demons, Spirits, Witches, Volume II)
The editors:
Éva Pócs is professor at Janus Pannonius
University, Pécs, Hungary, renowned scholar of
historical anthropology, authority on folk beliefs in
East Central Europe. Author of Between the Living and
the Dead, published by CEU Press in 1998.
Gábor Klaniczay is professor at the Central
European University, and at Eötvös Loránd
University, Budapest. Taught and did research at the
École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales
and the Sorbonne in Paris, at the Wissenschaftskolleg
zu Berlin, the Getty Center for Arts and the Humanities,
Santa Monica etc.
This is the second volume of a series of three. The
other two volumes in this set are Communicating
with the Spirits, and Witchcraft
Mythologies and Persecutions.
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.
Contents
Introduction by Gábor Klaniczay and
Éva Pócs; Part I Learned
Demonology, Images of the Devil Benedek Láng,
Demons in Krakow, and Image Magic in a Magical
Handbook; Anna Kuznetsova, "A Wall of
Bronze" or Demons versus Saints: Whose Victory?;
Erzsébet Tatai, An Iconographical
Approach to Representations of the Devil in Medieval
Hungary; György E. Szőnyi, Talking
With Demons. Early Modern Theories and Practice; Éva
Szacsvay, Protestant Devil Figures in Hungary;
Ulrika Wolf-Knuts, The Devil and Birthgiving
Part II Exchanges between
Elite and Popular Concepts Karen P. Smith,
Serpent-damsels and Dragon-slayers: Overlapping Divinities
in a Medieval Tradition; Wanda Wyporska, Jewish,
Noble, German, or Peasant? - The Devil in Early Modern
Poland; Jonas Liliequist, Sexual Encounters
with Spirits and Demons in Early Modern Sweden: Popular
and Learned Concepts in Conflict and Interaction;
Soili-Maria Eklund, Church Demonology and
Popular Beliefs in Early Modern Sweden; Part
III Evil Magic and Demons in East
European and Asian Folklore Ilana Rosen,
Saintly and Sympathetic Magic in the Lore of the
Jews of Carpatho-Russia Between the Two World Wars;
Monika Kropej, Magic as Reflected in Slovenian
Folk Tradition and Popular Healing Today; L’upcho
S. Risteski, Categories of the “Evil Dead"
in Macedonian Folk Religion; Anna Plotnikova,
Balkan Demons’ Protecting Places; Vesna
Petreska, Demons of Fate in Macedonian Folk Beliefs;
Zmago Šmitek, Gog and Magog in the Slovenian
Folk Tradition; Ágnes Birtalan, Systematization
of the Concept of Demonic and Evil in Mongolian Folk
Religion; List of Contributors Index
"The focus is limited to central and eastern Europe
and Scandinavia. This is quite valuable, insofar as
there is no great surplus of scholarship on the topics
of magic, witchcraft, and demonology from these lands
- certainly not scholarship readily available to western
European or North American academics generally limited
to English, French, and German. Presenting a number
of studies from these eastern (and northern) regions
in English is a worthwhile service." - Magic,
Ritual, and Witchcraft
2006
292 pages
ISBN 978-963-7326-76-9 cloth $45.00 / €31.95 /
£30.00
Demons, Spirits, Witches
Volume I Communicating
with the Spirits 2005
Volume II Christian
Demonology and Popular Mythology 2006
Volume III Witchcraft
Mythologies and Persecutions 2008
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