Witchcraft and Demonology in Hungary and Transylvania

Gábor Klaniczay is Professor of Medieval Studies at the Central European University, Budapest, Hungary. His research interests are in the history of medieval and early modern sainthood and witchcraft. His previous books include The Uses of Supernatural Power (1990) and Holy Rulers and Blessed Princesses (2002). He coedited with Éva Pócs a three volume series, ‘Demons, Spirits and Witches’ (2005, 2006, 2008).Éva Pócs is Professor Emeritus at the University of Pécs, Hungary. Her main areas of research are folk religion and folk beliefs, and witchcraft and demonology. Her previous publications include Fairies and Witches at the Boundary of South-Eastern and Central Europe (1989) and Between the Living and the Dead: A Perspective on Witches and Seers in the Early Modern Age (1998).

• ​The social background of witchcraft accusations in early modern Debrecen and Bihar County; Ildikó Sz. Kristóf.-  Witchcraft, greed and revenge: The prosecutor activity of György Igyártó and the witch trials of Kolozsvár in the 1580s; László Pakó.- Healers in Hungarian witch trials; Gábor Klaniczay.- Divinatio diabolica and magical medicine. Healers, seers and diviners in early modern Nagybánya; Judit Kis-Halas.- Shamanism or witchcraft? The táltos before the tribunals; Éva Pócs.- The decriminalization of magic and the fight against superstitions in Hungary and Transylvania 1740-1848; Péter Tóth G.-  Demonology and Catholic Enlightenment in eighteenth-century Hungary; Dániel Bárth.- Talking through witchcraft – on the bewitchment discourse of a village community; Ágnes Hesz.- Index.