Contents of the first and the third volume

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter i
2. TABLE OF CONTENTS v
3. Contents of the first and the third volume vii
4. Introduction 1
5. Part I Learned Demonology, Images of the Devil
6. Demons in Krakow, and Image Magic in a Magical Handbook 13
7. “A Wall of Bronze” or Demons versus Saints: Whose Victory? 45
8. An Iconographical Approach to Representations of the Devil in Medieval Hungary 54
9. Talking With Demons. Early Modern Theories and Practice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
10. Protestant Devil Figures in Hungary 89
11. The Devil and Birthgiving 109
12. Part II Exchanges between Elite and Popular Concepts
13. Serpent-damsels and Dragon-slayers: Overlapping Divinities in a Medieval Tradition 121
14. Jewish, Noble, German, or Peasant? — The Devil in Early Modern Poland 139
15. Sexual Encounters with Spirits and Demons in Early Modern Sweden: Popular and Learned Concepts in Conflict and Interaction 152
16. Church Demonology and Popular Beliefs in Early Modern Sweden 170
17. Part III Evil Magic and Demons in East European and Asian Folklore
18. Saintly and Sympathetic Magic in the Lore of the Jews of Carpatho-Russia Between the Two World Wars 183
19. Magic as Reflected in Slovenian Folk Tradition and Popular Healing Today 194
20. Categories of the “Evil Dead” in Macedonian Folk Religion 202
21. Balkan Demons’ Protecting Places 213
22. Demons of Fate in Macedonian Folk Beliefs 221
23. Gog and Magog in the Slovenian Folk Tradition 237
24. Systematization of the Concept of Demonic and Evil in Mongolian Folk Religion 250
25. List of Contributors 265
26. Index 271