Cunning-Folk and Familiar Spirits: Shamanistic Visionary Traditions in Early Modern British Witchcraft and Magic
by Emma Wilby
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Contains the examination of popular familiar belief in early modern Britain. This book provides an analysis of the correlation between early modern British magic and tribal shamanism, examines the experiential dimension of popular magic and witchcraft in early modern Britain, and explores the links between British fairy beliefs and witch beliefs.Tags
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A very interesting set of ideas about how early modern brits might have experienced spirit contact and alliance.
Wilby's Masters Thesis on Shamanistic traditions of Early Modern witches found in Witch Trial Records
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Emma Wilby is an Honorary Fellow in History at the University of Exeter. She is the author of Cunning Folk and Familiar Spirits: Shamanistic Visionary Traditions in Early Modern British Witchcraft and Magic, and The Visions of Isobel Gowdie: Magic, Witchcraft and Dark Shamanism in Seventeenth-Century Scotland.
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- Nonfiction, Religion & Spirituality, History, General Nonfiction, Anthropology
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- 133.4 — Philosophy & psychology Parapsychology & occultism Specific topics in parapsychology and occultism Demonology and witchcraft
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- BF1581 .W54 — Philosophy, Psychology and Religion Psychology Occult sciences Witchcraft
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