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Magic, body, and the self in eighteenth-century Sweden /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Van Gent, Jacqueline
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2009.
Series:Studies in medieval and Reformation traditions ; v .135.
Subjects:
Witchcraft > Sweden > History > 18th century.
Magic > Sweden > History > 18th century.
Trials (Witchcraft) > Sweden > History > 18th century.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Honour and social control in witchcraft trials
  • The fluid self
  • Magic and the body
  • Healing as counter-magic
  • The ambiguity of magic.