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Narratives and Rituals of the Nightmare Hag in Scandinavian Folk Belief (Palgrave Historical Studies in Witchcraft and Magic) - Hardcover

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Raudvere, Catharina

 
9783030489182: Narratives and Rituals of the Nightmare Hag in Scandinavian Folk Belief (Palgrave Historical Studies in Witchcraft and Magic)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 3030489183 ISBN 13: 9783030489182
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan, 2021

Inhaltsangabe

This books explores varying conceptions of the Nightmare hag, mara, in Scandinavian folk belief. What began as observations of some startling narratives preserved in folklore archives where sex, violence and curses are recurring themes gradually led to questions as to how rural people envisaged good and evil, illness and health, and cause and effect. At closer reading, narratives about the mara character involve existential themes, as well as comments on gender and social hierarchy. This monograph analyses how this female creature was conceived of in oral literature and everyday ritual practice in pre-industrial Scandinavia, and what role she played in a larger pattern of belief in witchcraft and magic.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Catharina Raudvere is Professor in the Department of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies in the Section for the History of Religions at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark.

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Verlag
Palgrave Macmillan
Erscheinungsdatum
2021
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
3030489183
ISBN 13 
9783030489182
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Auflage
1
Anzahl der Seiten
321
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