The Superstitious Mind: French Peasants and the Supernatural in the Nineteenth CenturyYale University Press, 1 janv. 1987 - 316 pages This intriguing book examines popular religion, traditional medicine, witchcraft, apparitions, demonology, and magic in nineteenth-century rural France. Devlin demonstrates that many of the impulses and mental processes now considered superstitious constituted a wholly reasonable response to the pressures of a harsh and impoverished life. Far from the product of a primitive mentality, many of these beliefs have survived in modern culture and can even illuminate the nature of modern mass politics. |
Table des matières
Popular Religion | 1 |
Traditional Medicine | 43 |
Apparitions and Prodigies | 72 |
Witchcraft and the Sense of Injustice | 100 |
The Possessed | 120 |
Prophets and Prophecy | 140 |
Demonology and Inventive Magic | 165 |
The Vocabulary | 185 |
Conclusion | 215 |
Notes | 231 |
Bibliography | 265 |
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