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Deadly Words: Witchcraft in the Bocage (Msh) Book

Paperback. Pub Date: Jan. 1981 Pages: 160 Publisher: Camidge. University Press This 1980 book examines witchcraft beliefs Proven and Experiences in The Bocage. In a Rural area of ??western France It also A powerful Theoretical introduced 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 eaking the succession of misfortunes which befall those who have been bewitched. He undertakes a battle of magic with the suspected...Read More

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  • Blackwell

    This book examines witchcraft beliefs and experiences in the Bocage in western France. This 1980 book examines witchcraft beliefs and experiences in the Bocage, a rural area of western France. It also introduced a powerful theoretical attitude...

  • 0521297877
  • 9780521297875
  • Jeanne Favret-Saada
  • 4 December 1980
  • Cambridge University Press
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 284
  • 1
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