Favret Saada J (12 results)

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Paperback or Softback. Condition: New. Comment produire une crise mondiale avec douze petits dessins. Book.

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Condition: Good. Bon état. collection L'Espace analytique. in8. 1985. broché. 220 pages. Un vol. couv. imp. int. frais. Good.

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Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - This 1980 book examines witchcraft beliefs and experiences in the Bocage, a rural area of western France. It also introduced a powerful theoretical attitude towards the progress of the ethnographer's enquiries, suggesting that a full knowledge of witchcraft involves being 'caught up' in it oneself. In the Bocage, being bewitched is to be 'caught' in a sequence of misfortunes. According to those who are bewitched, the culprit is someone in the neighbourhood: the witch, who can cast a spell with a word, a touch or a look, and whose 'power' comes from a book of spells inherited from an ancestor. Only a professional magician, an 'unwitcher', has any chance of breaking the succession of misfortunes which befall those who have been bewitched. He undertakes a battle of magic with the suspected witch, a battle which is eventually fatal. …

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title.

Condition: New. Print on Demand pp. 284 2:B&W 6 x 9 in or 229 x 152 mm Perfect Bound on Creme w/Gloss Lam.

Condition: New. PRINT ON DEMAND pp. 284.

Condition: New. Dieser Artikel ist ein Print on Demand Artikel und wird nach Ihrer Bestellung fuer Sie gedruckt. This book examines witchcraft in the Bocage, a rural area of western France. The ethnographer delves into what it means to be a witch and to be bewitched, or caught in a series of misfortunes. Only a professional magician, an unwitcher , has any chance o.…