Witchcraft and Magic in Europe—and Beyond

Witchcraft and Magic in Ireland

Witchcraft and magic in Europe. Volume 3: The Middle Ages

universities outside Germany like Montpellier, Basle, and Cambridge. The activities of Simone Simoni (1532-1602) at Geneva, Heidelberg and Leipzig are instructive in this respect, as was shown long ago by Frank Ludwig (Neues Archiv fiir siichsische Geschichte und Altertumskunde, 1909, 30: 209-90). Equally, while Paracelsus' own view of the body militated against any commitment to anatomical stu...

Beyond the magic bullet

that scholars and medical men alike have been fooled by a series of attributions devised by Dioscorides and Artemidorus Capito c. A.D. 125 and given greater and almost unshakeable authority by the verbose, argumentative, and persuasive Galen. The main thesis, that the interest in "the true doctrines of Hippocrates" postdates Erasistratus and is the result of the cataloguing in the Alexandrian l...

Magic and Witchcraft Implications for Democratization and Poverty-Alleviating Aid in Africa

The belief in occult forces is still deeply rooted in many African societies, regardless of education, religion, and social class of the people concerned. According to many Africans its incidence is even increasing due to social stress and strain caused (among others) by the process of modernization. Most often magic and witchcraft accusations work to the disadvantage of the poor and deprived, ...

Belief and Beyond: The Law, the Nation, and the Drama in Joanna Baillie's Witchcraft