Communicating With The Spirits

Focuses on the problem of communication with the other world: the phenomenon of spirit possession and its changing historical interpretations, the imaginary schemes elaborated for giving accounts of the journeys to the other world and for communicating with the dead, and finally the historical archetypes of this kind of religious manifestation -- trance prophecy, divination, and shamanism.

List of Illustrations

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Introduction by Gabor Klaniczay and Eva Pecs

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Part I Discernment of Spirits and Possession

Nancy Caciola, Breath, Heart, Guts: The Body and Spirits in the Middle Ages

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Renata Mikolajczyk, Non sunt nisi phantasiae et imaginationes: a Medieval Attempt at Explaining Demons

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Moshe Sluhovsky, Discerning Spirits in Early Modern Europe

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Sophie Houdard, Mystics or Visionaries? Discernment of Spirits in the First Part of the Seventeenth Century in France

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Eva Pews, Possession Phenomena, Possession-systems. Some East-Central European Examples

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Part II Contacts with the Other World

Wolfgang Behringer, How Waldensians Became Witches: Heretics and Their Journey to the Other World

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Tok Thompson, Hosting the Dead: Thanotopic Aspects of the Irish Sidhe

193

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Roberto Dapit, Visions of the Other World as Narrated in Contemporary Belief Legends from Resia

204

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Part III Divination, Shamanism

Christa Tuczay, Trance Prophets and Diviners in the Middle Ages

215

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Peter Buchholz, Shamanism in Medieval Scandinavian Literature

234

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Rune Blix Hagen, The King, the Cat, and the Chaplain. King Christian IV's Encounter with the Sand Shamans of Northern Norway and Northern Russia in 1599

246

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List of Contributors

264

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Index

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Compiled by Agnes Hesz (notions) and Judit Kis-Halas (personal names and place names)

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