Child Witches and the Construction of the Witches’ Sabbath: The Swedish Blåkulla Story

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Table of Contents v
3. Introduction 1
4. Part I. Mythologies
5. The Concept of the Witches’ Sabbath in the Alpine Region (1430–1440) Text and Context 13
6. Round-table discussion with Carlo Ginzburg, Gustav Henningsen, Éva Pócs, Giovanni Pizza and Gábor Klaniczay 35
7. Learned Systems and Popular Narratives of Vision and Bewitchment 50
8. Late Medieval Witch Mythologies in the Balkans 83
9. Child Witches and the Construction of the Witches’ Sabbath: The Swedish Blåkulla Story 99
10. Part II. Legal Mechanisms, Social Contexts
11. Part II Legal Mechanisms, Social Contexts River Ordeal—Trial by Water—Swimming of Witches: Procedures of Ordeal in Witch Trials 127
12. How to Make a (Legal) Pact with the Devil? Legal Customs and Literacy in Witch Confessions in Early Modern Hungary 164
13. Healing at the Jagiellonian Court 184
14. Following the Traces of Xenophobia in Muscovite Witchcraft Investigation Records 197
15. Trial of an Honest Citizen in Nagybánya 1704–1705; A Tentative Microanalysis of Witchcraft Accusations 213
16. Boundaries and Transgressions: Witchcraft and Community Conflict in Estonia During the Late Nineteenth Century 237
17. Part III. Witchcraft and Folklore
18. Extraordinary Children, Werewolves, and Witches in Portuguese Folk Tradition 253
19. Reflections of Folk Belief and Legends at the Witch Trials of Estonia 269
20. Witches and Priests in the Bulgarian Village: Past and Present 283
21. Witchcraft in Eastern Slovenia 295
22. List of Contributors 315
23. Index 321