This book addresses magical ideas and practices in early modern Norway. It examines a large corpus of Norwegian manuscripts from 1650-1850 commonly called Black
This collection of papers explores the sacred and magical aspects of ethno-medicine. The subject area is marked out by the points of connection between religiou
Tying on case studies from late antiquity to the 21st century, this is the first volume that systematically explores the inter-relationship between fictional na
This book sheds new light on the key role played by the Grimms’ Deutsche Sagen in the collection of folklore an d the creation of national culture in Northern
This books explores varying conceptions of the Nightmare hag, mara, in Scandinavian folk belief. What began as observations of some startling narratives preserv