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Feeling Upside Down: Witchcraft and Exclusion in the Twilight of Early Modern Spain
2019
In mid-1812, in the village of Tosos (Zaragoza), more than thirty-two of the inhabitants claimed to be possessed. Most of the population accepted the supernatural explanation of maleficence and cast the blame on one woman, Joaquina Martínez, who was labelled a witch and sorceress and whose life was threatened on several occasions thereafter, until she was definitively expelled from the village. Had this happened in the 16th or 17th century, Joaquina would have been tried and awarded a harsh sentence.Two centuries on from the end of the “witch-hunt”, however, as if in a “looking-glass world”, those brought to trial were her persecutors.The episcopal trial of the so-called “possessed of Tosos…
O czary, próbę spędzenia płodu, bigamię i czyny nierządne. Proces Barbary z Krzyżanowskich 1o Krępska, 2o Lenartowiczowej w Barze w 1764 roku. Edycja…
2022
Wzmiankowany w tytule proces sądowy odbył się 18 lipca 1764 roku. Oskarżono w nim Barbarę z Krzyżanowskich primo Krępską, secundo Lenartowiczową o przywłaszczenie spadku po mężu, który zgodnie z prawem powinien przypaść jego córce z pierwszego małżeństwa Annie. Sprawę do sądu wniósł jej mąż Jan Szcześniacki. W trakcie procesu okazało się, że Barbara winna była jeszcze kilku innych przestępstw zagrożonych bezwzględną karą śmierci jak bigamia, próba przerwania ciąży oraz kontakty intymne z parobkiem Iwanem Zemkowem, który z tego powodu był wyśmiewany przez kolegów. Jednym z poważnych zarzutów były czary, które oskarżona miała rzekomo rzucić na kochanka oraz byłego męża, który z ich powodu mia…
Streghe per Covid. Le accuse di stregoneria in India durante la pandemia di Coronavirus
2020
This survey aims to present an initial assessment of the incidence of the phenomenon of witch-hunting in India during 2020, at a particularly dramatic historical moment marked by the outbreak of the Covid 19 pandemic. The data are partial, but indicative, and have been gathered through daily monitoring of the main Indian newspapers in English and some newspapers (national and local) in Hindi. In India, the belief in witches is a phenomenon that is linked to specific elements both of Hindu cults, whose devotional expressions and folkloric elements are rooted in the Vedic texts, and the belief systems of some indigenous communities. Indeed, although influenced by the expressions of the Hindu …
Taikabeibejä ja kuulapsia : noituutta YouTubessa
2019
"Co to są czary? Co za znaki ich?" Litewskie kazanie i sposoby na czary z końca XVII i XVIII w
2018
Witchcraft as a crime attracted the attention of Polish-Lithuanian society in many aspects at the turn of 17th and 18th centuries. On the one hand, it was connected with a belief in its efficiency, in the existence of witches and sorcerers, and their covenant with the devil. The article analyzes two manuscripts: a prayer „Modlitwa przeciwko czarom i niebezpieczeństwom” and a sermon „ Jako się strzedz czarów i potwarzy o nie”. The sermon utilizes contemporary rhetoric, stresses the importan-ce of sin and appeals to the receivers through fear. What is somewhat surprising, the text maintains that most witchcraft happened with God’s permission, as God allows the devil to function in the society…
Extended Families as Communities of Religious Experience in Late Seventeenth-Century Eastern Finland
2022
AbstractThis chapter offers an interpretation of extended families as communities of experience in a rural area close to the eastern border of the Swedish realm. Through a case study of lower court records, Kuha examines the social and religious life in a 17th-century farm culminating in the crisis of an extended family. The chapter explores how practices of lived religion shaped the relationship of the community and the individual, and how experiences were negotiated within families and local communities. The analysis highlights the importance of protecting the boundaries of the household as well as the meaning of religious practices in creating cohesion within the community.