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Correction to: Werewolf Legends
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Werewolves as Social Others: Contemporary Oral Narratives in Rural Bosnia and Herzegovina
This chapter focuses on the narratives about werewolves which I recorded during my fieldwork in Bosnia and Herzegovina in 2016–2017 among all three main ethnic groups, that is, Croats, Bosniaks and Serbs, clos...
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Magic and Counter-Magic in Twenty-First-Century Bosnia
After the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina (1992–1995) and the transition from a socialist to a capitalist economy, more and more people seem convinced that they have suffered consequences of magic, and practitio...
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Contemporary European Witchcraft
This chapter presents not only various reasons that contributed to the decline of rural witchcraft in Europe but also ways of its continuation and transformation after the period of witch trials, as well as ty...
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Conclusion
Conclusion gives an overall picture of common points and points of diversion among different layers of witchcraft and different types of witches. In addition, it points to the continuation of traditional rural i...
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Social Witchcraft: Neighbourhood Witches
This chapter discusses witchcraft as a part of social reality, strongly related to misfortune and involved in social relationships among the members of the community, especially neighbours. Typical origins and...
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Social Witchcraft: Specialists
This chapter discusses various specialists to who people could turn to in case of misfortune ascribed to bewitchment, in particular unwitchers—their characteristics, the structure of their procedure and the ro...
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Night Witches
This chapter discusses the narratives about night-time visions of witches and experiences ascribed to night witches, closely related to European legends on supernatural beings, possible realities of night experie...
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Introduction
Introduction brings information on the methodology of the research and relates historical data on witchcraft in Slovenia—from the trials, over the nineteenth and twentieth century—with the recent fieldwork data.
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Witchcraft in the Region under Research
This chapter focuses on the specifics of the region in which the field research was being conducted. It first brings into focus the region’s geographic and socioeconomic characteristics and development, and th...
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Social Witchcraft: Countermeasures
This chapter presents various countermeasures that were part of common knowledge which people could draw upon to counteract the bewitchment.
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Social Witchcraft: Village Witches
This chapter presents so-called village witches: various reasons for a person to acquire a reputation of the witch in the entire community, their characteristic traits, attitude of people towards them as well ...
