Deadly Words Favret-Saada Jeanne
Deadly Words Favret-Saada Jeanne This 1980 book examines witchcraft beliefs and experiences in the Bocage, a rural area of western France. In the Bocage, being bewitched is to be 'caught' in a…
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Deadly Words Favret-Saada Jeanne
This 1980 book examines witchcraft beliefs and experiences in the Bocage, a rural area of western France. In the Bocage, being bewitched is to be 'caught' in a sequence of misfortunes. It also introduced a powerful theoretical attitude towards the progress of the ethnographer's enquiries, suggesting that a full knowledge of witchcraft involves being 'caught up' in it oneself.
Only a professional magician, an 'unwitcher', has any chance of breaking the succession of misfortunes which befall those who have been bewitched. According to those who are bewitched, the culprit is someone in the neighbourhood: the witch, who can cast a spell with a word, a touch or a look, and whose 'power' comes from a book of spells inherited from an ancestor. He undertakes a battle of magic with the suspected witch, a battle which is eventually
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