Magic, body, and the self in eighteenth-century Sweden
By: by Jacqueline Van Gent.
Series: Studies in medieval and Reformation traditions -- v. 135
Publisher: Brill
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Leiden; Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 228
ISBN-13: 9789004171145
Subjects: Witchcraft -- Sweden -- History -- 18th century; Magic -- Sweden -- History -- 18th century; Trials (Witchcraft) -- Sweden -- History -- 18th century
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: One honour and social control in witchcraft trials; title: The fluid self; title: Magic and the body; title: Healing as counter-magic; title: The ambiguity of magic.