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The Haunted : A Social History of Ghosts
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Healing Charms in use in England and Wales 1700-1950
Davies, Owen (1996-01)The collection and analysis of Anglo-Saxon and early medieval healing charms has long generated an active interest in their content and application. However, despite the quite extensive ethnographic evidence concerning the ... -
Hexereivorwurfe im England des 19. und fruhen 20. Jahrhunderts
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Introduction: Building Magic : Ritual and Re-enchantment in Post-Medieval Structures
Houlbrook, Ceri; Davies, Owen (Palgrave Macmillan, 2021-09-21)Buildings contain many secrets and hidden histories concealed from the human eye. We may think we know our homes intimately and then one day renovations, the cleaning of an old chimney, or the investigation of an obscure ... -
Magic : A Very Short Introduction
Davies, Owen (Oxford University Press (OUP), 2012)Magic is a much-used term with a complex and controversial history. As a concept and a practice, it has attracted the attention of theologians, anthropologists, psychologists, sociologists, artists, and historians over the ... -
Magic in Common and Legal Perspectives
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Methodism, the Clergy, and the Popular Belief in Witchcraft and Magic
Davies, Owen (1997-04)During the second half of the eighteenth century and the early nineteenth century, there was growing concern that the popular belief in witchcraft and magic was still widespread. It had generally been supposed that the ... -
Murder, Magic, Madness : The Victorian Trials of Dove and the Wizard
Davies, Owen (Longman, 2005) -
Newspapers and the Popular Belief in Witchcraft and Magic in the Modern Period
Davies, Owen (1998) -
A People Bewitched: Witchcraft and Magic in Nineteenth-Century Somerset
Davies, Owen (Privately published, 1999)The belief in witchcraft and magic was widespread in nineteenth-century Somerset. Witches were blamed for causing the ill health and death of people and their animals. Those accused of witchcraft often found themselves ... -
Popular Magic : Cunning-Folk in English History
Davies, Owen (Hambeldon Continuum, 2007) -
Print Grimoires and the Democratization of Learned Magic in the Later Early Modern Period: Bricolage Tradition and the Cross-Cultural Transmission of Knowledge
Davies, Owen (2023-04-14)The relationship between print and manuscript in the entanglement of 'western learned magic' provides valuable insights regarding the complexity of cultural transmission across societies and social strata. Through exploring ... -
A Supernatural War : Magic, Divination and Faith during the First World War
Davies, Owen (Oxford University Press (OUP), 2018-10-25)A comprehensive study of the major revival of supernatural beliefs, superstition, and spiritualism during the First World War and its aftermath. A look at what the beliefs, practices, and contemporary opinions on magic can ... -
Talk of the Devil : Crime and Satanic Inspiration in Eighteenth-Century England
Davies, Owen (University of Hertfordshire, 2007) -
The University of Hertfordshire : Sixty Years of Innovation
Davies, Owen; History; Centre for Regional and Local History; School of Humanities; Social Sciences, Arts & Humanities Research Institute (University of Hertfordshire Press, 2012)Illustrates the importance of the post-1992 higher education sector in advancing the knowledge, economy and cultural life of the country. Through the stories and memories of individual students and members of staff, the ... -
Urbanization and the Decline of Witchcraft : An Examination of London
Davies, Owen (1997) -
‘A virtue beyond all medicine’ : The hanged man’s hand, gallows tradition and healing in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century England
Davies, Owen; Matteoni, Francesca (2015-11)From the eighteenth century through to the abolition of public executions in England in 1868, the touch of a freshly hanged man's hand was sought after to cure a variety of swellings, wens in particular. While the healing ... -
Wesley’s invisible world: witchcraft and the temperature of preternatural belief
Davies, Owen (Wipf and Stock, 2015-01-01) -
The wider picture: Parallel evidence in America and Australia
Davies, Owen; Evans, Ian; Manning, M. Chris (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015) -
The Witch of Endor in History and Folklore
Davies, Owen (2023-02-23)The Old Testament account in 1 Samuel 28 of how the Woman or Witch of Endor apparently raised the spirit of the prophet Samuel has been a matter of much theological debate for many centuries. Hundreds of scholarly articles ...