Shaman of Oberstdorf : Chonrad Stoeckhlin and the phantoms of the night / Wolfgang Behringer ; translated by H.C. Erik Midelfort.

Author
Behringer, Wolfgang [Browse]
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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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    Studies in early modern German history [More in this series]
    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.
    ISBN
    • 0813917883 ((hardcover ; : alk. paper))
    • 9780813917887 ((hardcover ; : alk. paper))
    • 0813918537
    • 9780813918532
    LCCN
    97048497
    OCLC
    38016628
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