Cunning Folk and Familiar Spirits Shamanistic Visionary Traditions in Early Modern British Witchcraft and Magic

Name: Cunning Folk and Familiar Spirits Shamanistic Visionary Traditions in Early Modern British Witchcraft and Magic
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ISBN: 9781845190798

ISBN-10: 1845190793

ISBN-13: 9781845190798

Edition: 2005

Authors: Emma Wilby

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In the hundreds of confessions relating to witchcraft and sorcery trials from early modern Britain we frequently find detailed descriptions of intimate working relationships between popular magical practitioners and familiar spirits of either human or animal form. Until recently it was generally assumed that they were largely elaborate fictions created by judicial interrogators eager to find evidence of stereotypical pacts with the devil. Although this paradigm is now routinely questioned, and most historians acknowledge that there was a folkloric component to familiar-lore in the period, these beliefs, and the experiences reportedly associated with them, remain substantially unexamined.…

Book details

List price: $49.95
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Publication date: 11/21/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 317
Size: 5.98" wide x 9.02" long x 0.70" tall
Weight: 1.210
Language: English



List of Illustrations


Preface: Walking with Spirits - A Cunning Woman's Tale


Acknowledgments



Demon and Fairy Familiars: The Historical Context


Introduction to Part I



A Harsh and Enchanted World



Cunning Folk and Witches



The Magical Use of Spirits



Human and Spirit: The Meeting



The Working Relationship



Renunciation and Pact



Demon and Fairy: The Interface



Anthropological Perspectives


Introduction to Part II



The Shaman's Calling



Spirit Worlds and High Gods



The Experiential Dimension


Introduction to Part III



Phantasticks and Phantasms



Psychosis or Spirituality?



The Unrecognized Mystics



Greedigut and the Angel Gabriel



The Freedom of Magic


Notes


Bibliography


Index