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Shaman of Oberstdorf : Chonrad Stoeckhlin and the phantoms of the night / Wolfgang Behringer ; translated by H.C. Erik Midelfort.
Author
Behringer, Wolfgang
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Uniform title
Chonrad Stoeckhlin und die Nachtschar.
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Format
Book
Language
English
Published/Created
Charlottesville : University Press of Virginia, 1998.
Description
xii, 203 pages : maps ; 24 cm.
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Firestone Library - Stacks
BF1583 .B43813 1998
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Subject(s)
Witchcraft
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Germany
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Allgäu
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History
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16th century
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Occultism
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Germany
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Allgäu
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History
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16th century
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Occultism
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Shamanism
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Magic
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Series
Studies in early modern German history
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Summary note
"Shaman of Oberstdorf tells the fascinating story of a sixteenth-century mountain village caught in a panic of its own making. Four hundred years ago the Bavarian alpine town of Oberstdorf, surrounded by the towering peaks of the Vorarlberg, was awash in legends and rumors of prophets and healers, of spirits and specters, of witches and soothsayers. The book focuses on the life of a horse wrangler named Chonrad Stoeckhlin [1549-1587], whose extraordinary visions of the afterlife and enthusiastic practice of the occult eventually led to his death-and to the death of a number of village women-for crimes of witchcraft. Wolfgang Behringer is one of the premier historians of German witchcraft, not only because of his mastery of the subject at the regional level, but because he also writes movingly, forcefully, and with an eye for the telling anecdote."--Amazon.ca.
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references (p. 161-193) and index.
Contents
Herdsmen
Shrovetide conversations
The message of the specter
An angel appears
The phantoms of the night
The people of the night
Music of unearthly beauty
The miracle of the bones
The good society
Wuotas
Healing and prophesy
Witches' flight
Heuber
Witch hunt
Peasant rebellion
Folk beliefs
Shamanism
Bricolage
Private revelations
The end of the dreamtime.
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ISBN
0813917883 ((hardcover ; : alk. paper))
9780813917887 ((hardcover ; : alk. paper))
0813918537
9780813918532
LCCN
97048497
OCLC
38016628
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