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The Gut
A Black Atlantic Alimentary Tract
Häftad, 2023
308 kr
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If the head is religion, the gut is magic. Taking up this provocation, this Element delves into the digestive system within transnational Afro-Diasporic religions such as Haitian Vodou, Brazilian Candomblé, and Cuban Lucumí (also called Santería). It draws from the ethnographic and archival record …
Witchcraft and Paganism in Midcentury Women's Detective Fiction
Häftad, 2022
308 kr
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Witchcraft and paganism exert an insistent pressure from the margins of midcentury British detective fiction. This Element investigates the appearance of witchcraft and paganism in the novels of four of the most popular female detective authors of the era: Agatha Christie, Margery Allingham, Ngaio …
The Donkey King
Asinine Symbology in Ancient and Medieval Magic
Av Emily Selove
Häftad, 2023
354 kr
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The 13th-century Arabic grimoire, al-Sakkākī's Kitāb al-Shāmil (Book of the Complete), provides numerous methods of contacting jinn. The first such jinn described, Abū Isrā'īl Būzayn ibn Sulaymān, arrives with a donkey. In the course of offering an explanation for his ritual, this Element reveals …
Creative Histories of Witchcraft
France, 1790-1940
Av Poppy Corbett, Anna Kisby Compton m. fl.
Häftad, 2022
302 kr
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How can researchers study magic without destroying its mystery? Drawing on a collaborative project between the playwright Poppy Corbett, the poet Anna Kisby Compton, and the historian William G. Pooley, this Element presents thirteen tools for creative-academic research into magic, illustrated …
Magic and Disability in the Early Modern World
Häftad, 2026
282 kr
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This Element argues that early modern witchcraft (discourse, visual imagery and trials) in Scotland, England, Ireland and America demonised, devalued and disqualified non-normative bodies and minds. Using interpretative frameworks of monstrosity and deformity, while working within wider religious …
Lowcountry Conjure Magic
Historical Archaeology on a Plantation Slave Quarter
Häftad, 2025
308 kr
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Cat Island, South Carolina, was once the location of slave trade activities, including capture of Native Americans for export and the rise of plantations in the Lowcountry for indigo and rice production, from the sixteenth to mid-nineteenth centuries. This Element examines the Hume Plantation Slave …
The Donkey King
Asinine Symbology in Ancient and Medieval Magic
Av Emily Selove
Inbunden, 2023
1048 kr
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The 13th-century Arabic grimoire, al-Sakkākī's Kitāb al-Shāmil (Book of the Complete), provides numerous methods of contacting jinn. The first such jinn described, Abū Isrā'īl Būzayn ibn Sulaymān, arrives with a donkey. In the course of offering an explanation for his ritual, this Element reveals …
Staging Witchcraft Before the Law
Skepticism, Performance as Proof, and Law as Magic in Early Modern Witch Trials
Inbunden, 2025
911 kr
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While the judicial machinery of early modern witch-hunting could work with terrifying swiftness, skepticism and evidentiary barriers often made conviction difficult. Seeking proof strong enough to overcome skepticism, judges and accusers turned to performance, staging 'acts of Sorcery and …
Staging Witchcraft Before the Law
Skepticism, Performance as Proof, and Law as Magic in Early Modern Witch Trials
Häftad, 2025
302 kr
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While the judicial machinery of early modern witch-hunting could work with terrifying swiftness, skepticism and evidentiary barriers often made conviction difficult. Seeking proof strong enough to overcome skepticism, judges and accusers turned to performance, staging 'acts of Sorcery and …
Amulets in Magical Practice
Av Jay Johnston
Inbunden, 2024
911 kr
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This Element takes as its remit the production and use of amulets. The focus will be on amulets with no, or minimal, textual content like those comprising found stone, semi-precious gem and/or animal body parts. That is a material form that is unaccompanied by directive textual inscription. The …
Lowcountry Conjure Magic
Historical Archaeology on a Plantation Slave Quarter
Inbunden, 2025
911 kr
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Cat Island, South Carolina, was once the location of slave trade activities, including capture of Native Americans for export and the rise of plantations in the Lowcountry for indigo and rice production, from the sixteenth to mid-nineteenth centuries. This Element examines the Hume Plantation Slave …
Conjuring the Arab Magician
Intercultural Histories of Magic
Av Gal Sofer
Häftad, 2026
308 kr
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This Element reassesses narratives of intercultural transmission in medieval European magic, highlighting complex processes of compilation and attribution often obscured by broad labels. Following an Introduction that lays out the methodological framework, Section 1 ('The Wise Saracens') explores a …
Conjuring the Arab Magician
Intercultural Histories of Magic
Av Gal Sofer
Inbunden, 2026
911 kr
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This Element reassesses narratives of intercultural transmission in medieval European magic, highlighting complex processes of compilation and attribution often obscured by broad labels. Following an Introduction that lays out the methodological framework, Section 1 ('The Wise Saracens') explores a …
Imagining the Witches' Sabbath
Visions of Darkness Since 1900
Häftad, 2026
302 kr
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Of all the dark visions to haunt the cultural imagination, few have proven so pervasive as the witches' Sabbath or Sabbat - an idea born in the fifteenth century. The Sabbath, however, did not remain there, and this Element explores some of the ways in which the witches' Sabbath has been reimagined …
Imagining the Witches' Sabbath
Visions of Darkness Since 1900
Inbunden, 2026
911 kr
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Of all the dark visions to haunt the cultural imagination, few have proven so pervasive as the witches' Sabbath or Sabbat - an idea born in the fifteenth century. The Sabbath, however, did not remain there, and this Element explores some of the ways in which the witches' Sabbath has been reimagined …
Magic and Disability in the Early Modern World
Inbunden, 2026
884 kr
Kommande
This Element argues that early modern witchcraft (discourse, visual imagery and trials) in Scotland, England, Ireland and America demonised, devalued and disqualified non-normative bodies and minds. Using interpretative frameworks of monstrosity and deformity, while working within wider religious …
Gerald Gardner and the Creation of Wicca
Av John Callow
Inbunden, 2025
892 kr
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Gerald Gardner (1884-1964) provided the central inspiration for Wicca, as a modern, revived, form of Pagan witchcraft. As such, his cultural and religious significance has grown exponentially over the 60 years since his death. 'A Rough Magic' re-evaluates the sources of Gardner's inspiration, …
The Elixir
A Posthumanist Approach to Alchemy in Akbarian Sufism and Islam
Häftad, 2026
308 kr
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Step outside laboratory, and into the world of nature. The books on cannon law can be left behind as well, for Ibn ʿArabī (d. 1240) believed there is one Sharia for humans and another for minerals. This Element rethinks what it means to be an alchemist and Muslim, by shifting its focus to the …
The Elixir
A Posthumanist Approach to Alchemy in Akbarian Sufism and Islam
Inbunden, 2026
911 kr
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Step outside laboratory, and into the world of nature. The books on cannon law can be left behind as well, for Ibn ʿArabī (d. 1240) believed there is one Sharia for humans and another for minerals. This Element rethinks what it means to be an alchemist and Muslim, by shifting its focus to the …
The War on Witchcraft
Andrew Dickson White, George Lincoln Burr, and the Origins of Witchcraft Historiography
Häftad, 2021
302 kr
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Historians of the early modern witch-hunt often begin histories of their field with the theories propounded by Margaret Murray and Montague Summers in the 1920s. They overlook the lasting impact of nineteenth-century scholarship, in particular the contributions by two American historians, Andrew …
Witchcraft and the Modern Roman Catholic Church
Häftad, 2022
308 kr
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Witchcraft is rarely mentioned in official documents of the contemporary Roman Catholic church, but ideas about the dangers of witchcraft and other forms of occultism underpin the recent revival of interest in exorcism in the church. This Element examines hierarchical and clerical understandings of …
Amulets in Magical Practice
Av Jay Johnston
Häftad, 2024
308 kr
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This Element takes as its remit the production and use of amulets. The focus will be on amulets with no, or minimal, textual content like those comprising found stone, semi-precious gem and/or animal body parts. That is a material form that is unaccompanied by directive textual inscription. The …
The Strix-Witch
Av Daniel Ogden
Häftad, 2021
302 kr
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The strix was a persistent feature of the folklore of the Roman world and subsequently that of the Latin West and the Greek East. She was a woman that flew by night, either in an owl-like form or in the form of a projected soul, in order to penetrate homes by surreptitious means and thereby devour, …
Representing Magic in Modern Ireland
Belief, History, and Culture
Häftad, 2022
308 kr
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This Element argues that Ireland did not experience a disenchanted modernity, nor a decline in magic. It suggests that beliefs, practices and traditions concerning witchcraft and magic developed and adapted to modernity to retain cultural currency until the end of the twentieth century. This …
'Ritual Litter' Redressed
Häftad, 2022
302 kr
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Ritual deposition is not an activity that many people in the Western world would consider themselves participants of. The enigmatic beliefs and magical thinking that led to the deposition of swords in watery places and votive statuettes in temples, for example, may feel irrelevant to the modern …
Gerald Gardner and the Creation of Wicca
Av John Callow
Häftad, 2025
308 kr
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Gerald Gardner (1884-1964) provided the central inspiration for Wicca, as a modern, revived, form of Pagan witchcraft. As such, his cultural and religious significance has grown exponentially over the 60 years since his death. 'A Rough Magic' re-evaluates the sources of Gardner's inspiration, …
