Narratives and Rituals of the Nightmare Hag in Scandinavian Folk Belief (häftad)
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Inbunden (Hardback)
Språk
Engelska
Antal sidor
310
Utgivningsdatum
2021-02-27
Upplaga
1st ed. 2020
Förlag
Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Illustrationer
14 Illustrations, black and white; XI, 310 p. 14 illus.
Dimensioner
210 x 148 x 19 mm
Vikt
536 g
Antal komponenter
1
Komponenter
1 Hardback
ISBN
9783030489182

Narratives and Rituals of the Nightmare Hag in Scandinavian Folk Belief

av Catharina Raudvere
Inbunden,  Engelska, 2021-02-27
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This books explores varying conceptions of the Nightmare hag, mara, in Scandinavian folk belief. What began as observations of some startling narratives preserved in folklore archives where sex, violence and curses are recurring themes gradually led to questions as to how rural people envisaged good and evil, illness and health, and cause and effect. At closer reading, narratives about the mara character involve existential themes, as well as comments on gender and social hierarchy. This monograph analyses how this female creature was conceived of in oral literature and everyday ritual practice in pre-industrial Scandinavia, and what role she played in a larger pattern of belief in witchcraft and magic.
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Catharina Raudvere is Professor in the Department of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies in the Section for the History of Religions at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark.

Innehållsförteckning

Part I: Why the Nightmare Hag?.- 1. Why the Nightmare Hag? Points of departure.- PART II: Imagining the Nightmare Hag and Warding Her Off.- 2. Imagining of the Nightmare Hag.- 3. Protection Against the Nightmare Hag.- 4. The Nightmare Hag and Magic Thinking.- Part III: Narrating About the Nightmare Hag.- 5. A Model for an Analysis of the Hag Legends.- 6. Analogy Legends.- 7. Curse Legends.- 8. The Man Who Caught the Hag.- 9.The Nightmare Hag: narrative figure, personal experience and explanation of misfortune. Some concluding remarks.

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