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DEADLY WORDS:WITCHCT
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| By: |
Jeanne Favret-Saada, C. Cullen (Trans) |
| Format: |
Paperback |
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£44.00 |
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£38.50 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0521297877 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780521297875 |
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| Publisher: |
CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
4 December, 1980 |
| Pages: |
284 |
| Translated from: |
French |
| Description: |
This book examines witchcraft beliefs and experiences in the Bocage in western France. |
| Synopsis: |
This 1980 book examines witchcraft beliefs and experiences in the Bocage, a rural area of western France. It also introduced a powerful theoretical attitude towards the progress of the ethnographer's enquiries, suggesting that a full knowledge of witchcraft involves being 'caught up' in it oneself. In the Bocage, being bewitched is to be 'caught' in a sequence of misfortunes. According to those who are bewitched, the culprit is someone in the neighbourhood: the witch, who can cast a spell with a word, a touch or a look, and whose 'power' comes from a book of spells inherited from an ancestor. Only a professional magician, an 'unwitcher', has any chance of breaking the succession of misfortunes which befall those who have been bewitched. He undertakes a battle of magic with the suspected witch, a battle which is eventually fatal. |
| Illustrations: |
22d. |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Cambridge University Press |
| Returns: |
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