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Social Witchcraft: Village Witches

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Styrian Witches in European Perspective

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This chapter presents so-called village witches: various reasons for a person to acquire a reputation of the witch in the entire community, their characteristic traits, attitude of people towards them as well as their role in the community.

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Mencej, M. (2017). Social Witchcraft: Village Witches. In: Styrian Witches in European Perspective. Palgrave Historical Studies in Witchcraft and Magic. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-37250-5_7

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