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8 ‘Evil people’
A late eighteenth-century Dutch witch doctor and his clients
Chapters in this book
- Front matter i
- Contents v
- List of contributors vii
- Introduction 1
- 1 Marking (dis)order 9
- 2 Pro exoneratione sua propria coscientia 26
- 3 From illusion to disenchantment 45
- 4 Responses to witchcraft in late seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Sweden 61
- 5 Witchcraft and magic in eighteenth-century Scotland 81
- 6 The Devil’s pact 100
- 7 Public infidelity and private belief? 117
- 8 ‘Evil people’ 144
- 9 The archaeology of counter-witchcraft and popular magic 167
- 10 The dissemination of magical knowledge in Enlightenment Germany 187
- Index 207
Chapters in this book
- Front matter i
- Contents v
- List of contributors vii
- Introduction 1
- 1 Marking (dis)order 9
- 2 Pro exoneratione sua propria coscientia 26
- 3 From illusion to disenchantment 45
- 4 Responses to witchcraft in late seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Sweden 61
- 5 Witchcraft and magic in eighteenth-century Scotland 81
- 6 The Devil’s pact 100
- 7 Public infidelity and private belief? 117
- 8 ‘Evil people’ 144
- 9 The archaeology of counter-witchcraft and popular magic 167
- 10 The dissemination of magical knowledge in Enlightenment Germany 187
- Index 207
