Witchcraft in Romania

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This book provides a history of witchcraft in the territories that compose contemporary Romania, with a focus on the sixteenth to nineteenth centuries. The first part presents aspects of earthly justice, religious and secular, analysing the codes of law, trials and verdicts, and underlining the differences between Transylvania on one hand, and Moldavia and Wallachia on the other. The second part is concerned with divine justice, describing apocalyptic texts that talk about the pains of witches in hell, but also the ensembles of religious painting where, in vast compositions of the Last Judgment, various punishments for the sin of witchcraft are imagined.
Ioan Pop-Curşeu is Professor at Babeş-Bolyai University, Romania.
Ștefana Pop-Curșeu is Associate Professor at Babeş-Bolyai University, Romania.
This book provides a history of witchcraft in the territories that compose contemporary Romania, with a focus on the sixteenth to nineteenth centuries. The first part presents aspects of earthly justice, religious and secular, analysing the codes of law, trials and verdicts, and underlining the differences between Transylvania on one hand, and Moldavia and Wallachia on the other. The second part is concerned with divine justice, describing apocalyptic texts that talk about the pains of witches in hell, but also the ensembles of religious painting where, in vast compositions of the Last Judgment, various punishments for the sin of witchcraft are imagined.
Proposes the first historical survey of witchcraft in the ancient provinces that compose contemporary Romania Places Romanian witchcraft in the vast network of European magic culture, through a careful comparative approach Analyses a seminal iconography related to witchcraft, gathered during long years of field research

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Ioan Pop-Curşeu

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