Sökning: "sorcery"

Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 7 avhandlingar innehållade ordet sorcery.

  1. 1. The Viking Way : Religion and War in Late Iron Age Scandinavia

    Författare :Neil Price; Martin Carver; Uppsala universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Archaeology; Viking Age; Vikings; Óðinn; seiðr; sorcery; shamanism; warfare; Norse religion; Norse mythology; Sámi; Arkeologi; Archaeology subjects; Arkeologiämnen; arkeologi; Archaeology;

    Sammanfattning : The social role of magic is a prevalent theme of the medieval Icelandic sagas that claim to describe life several centuries earlier in the Viking Age, and indeed also saturates the Eddic poetry that is our primary source for the mythology and cosmology of the time. However, little archaeological or historical research has been done to explore what this aspect of ritual may really have meant to the men and women of late Iron Age Scandinavia. LÄS MER

  3. 2. Blåkulla, magi och trolldomsprocesser : En folkloristisk studie av folkliga trosföreställningar och av trolldomsprocesserna inom Svea Hovrätts jurisdiktion

    Författare :Per-Anders Östling; Uppsala universitet; []
    Nyckelord :Ethnology; angels; black magic; Blåkulla; circulation of rumours; dishonour; envy; folklore; gender; historical anthropology; history of mentalities; honour; hysteria; legal history; magic; maleficium; performance; popular beliefs; popular religion; rumours; social conflicts; sorcerer; sorcery; spreading of rumours; the devil; the evil eye; the Witches Sabbath; topsy turvy world; white magic; witch; witchcraft; Witch Craze;

    Sammanfattning : This dissertation deals with, magic, popular beliefs in the Witches Sabbath (in Sweden called Blåkulla), the witchcraft trials within the jurisdiction of Svea Circuit Court 1597–1720 and some aspects of the Great Northern Witch Craze of 1668–1677. The study examines the meanings of popular beliefs (folklore) in magic and Blåkulla and the actions, causes and events that actualised these beliefs. LÄS MER

  4. 3. Blåkulla, magi och trolldomsprocesser : En folkloristisk studie av folkliga trosföreställningar och av trolldomsprocesserna inom Svea Hovrätts jurisdiktion 1597–1720

    Författare :Per-Anders Östling; Ulf Palmenfelt; Uppsala universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Ethnology; angels; black magic; Blåkulla; circulation of rumours; dishonour; envy; folklore; gender; historical anthropology; history of mentalities; honour; hysteria; legal history; magic; maleficium; performance; popular beliefs; popular religion; rumours; social conflicts; sorcerer; sorcery; spreading of rumours; the devil; the evil eye; the Witches Sabbath; topsy turvy world; white magic; witch; witchcraft; Witch Craze; Etnologi; Ethnology; Etnologi; Etnologi; Ethnology;

    Sammanfattning : This dissertation deals with, magic, popular beliefs in the Witches Sabbath (in Sweden called Blåkulla), the witchcraft trials within the jurisdiction of Svea Circuit Court 1597–1720 and some aspects of the Great Northern Witch Craze of 1668–1677. The study examines the meanings of popular beliefs (folklore) in magic and Blåkulla and the actions, causes and events that actualised these beliefs. LÄS MER

  5. 4. Poverty and Sorcery in Urban Haiti

    Författare :Markel Thylefors; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES;

    Sammanfattning : .... LÄS MER

  7. 5. The Birth of Religion among the Balanta of Guinea-Bissau

    Författare :Inger Callewaert; Centrum för teologi och religionsvetenskap; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Herbal medicine 3.Modernisation; Divination; Ritual songs; Witchcraft; Ritual; Prophetic movement; Ancestor cult; Anthropology of Religion; Balanta 2.History of Religions; 1.West Africa; Guinea-Bissau; Gender; Theology; Teologi;

    Sammanfattning : This thesis deals with a recent event within the history of religions, the rise and development of a non-Christian prophetic movement named Kiyang-yang within the oral, kinship and ancestor based society of the Balanta in Guinea-Bissau. Kiyang-yang is headed by young women and men under the leadership of a woman prophet. LÄS MER