Browsing Research publications by Author "Davies, Owen"
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American Bewitched : the Story of Witchcraft after Salem
Davies, Owen (Oxford University Press (OUP), 2013)The infamous Salem trials are etched into the consciousness of modern America, the human toll a reminder of the dangers of intolerance and persecution. The refrain 'Remember Salem!' was invoked frequently over the ensuing ... -
Angels in elite and popular magic, 1650-1790
Davies, Owen (Cambridge University Press, 2006) -
Beyond the Witch Trials : Witchcraft and Magic in Enlightenment Europe
Davies, Owen; de Blecourt, Willem; School of Humanities; Social Sciences, Arts & Humanities Research Institute; History; Centre for Regional and Local History (Manchester University Press, 2004) -
Charmers and Charming in England and Wales from the Eighteenth to the Twentieth Century
Davies, Owen (1998-01)Charmers have long been recognised as an important aspect of folk medicine. Unfortunately, however, they have usually been conflated with cunning-folk and consequently the welldefined tradition of charming has been rather ... -
A Comparative Perspective on Scottish Cunning-folk and Charmers
Davies, Owen (Palgrave Macmillan, 2007) -
Cunning-folk in England and Wales during the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
Davies, Owen (1997-04)In a recent article Willem de Blécourt highlighted how little we really know about cunning-folk in the context of European witchcraft, and stressed the need for further substantial research. The study of English cunning-folk ... -
Cunning-folk in the Medical Market-Place during the Nineteenth Century
Davies, Owen (1999-01)Over the last twenty years a considerable amount of valuable research has uncovered the activities of a variety of unorthodox medical practitioners in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Quack doctors, spiritual ... -
Decriminalising the witch : The origin of and response to the 1736 Witchcraft Act
Davies, Owen (Brill Academic Publishers, 2008) -
English agriculturalists’ attitudes towards grassland vegetation, 1780-1914 : an ecological perspective
Davies, Angus; Davies, Owen (1996-01) -
European Folk Medicine
Davies, Owen (Pharmaceutical Press, 2009) -
Executing Magic in the Modern Era: Criminal Bodies and the Gallows in Popular Medicine
Davies, Owen; Matteoni, Francesca (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017-01-01)This book explores the magical and medical history of executions from the eighteenth to the early twentieth century by looking at the afterlife potency of criminal corpses, the healing activities of the executioner, and ... -
Female healers in nineteenth-century England
Davies, Owen (Local Population Studies Society, 2007) -
Finding the Folklore in the Annals of Psychiatry
Davies, Owen (2022-03-10)The rise of the folklore movement in the nineteenth century coincided with the development of psychiatry as a discipline and as a profession. There is no evidence of folklorists visiting asylums for source material, and ... -
A Folklorist Looks at Ice Cream Vans
Davies, Owen (2024-03-14)Of all the commercial road vehicles that have toured the streets and tourist spots of Britain, Ireland, America, and Australia over nearly a century, none elicit more popular reminiscence and sentiment than ice cream vans. ... -
French healing charms and charmers
Davies, Owen (Palgrave Macmillan, 2004) -
Ghosts
Davies, Owen (Routledge, 2017-06-16) -
Ghosts : A Social History
Davies, Owen; Social Sciences, Arts & Humanities Research Institute; School of Humanities; History; Centre for Regional and Local History (Pickering and Chatto, 2010)Despite the scientific and intellectual advances of the past five hundred years, populist belief in the supernatural, as evidenced by media investigations into the paranormal, continues to be culturally and socially relevant. ... -
Grimoires
Davies, Owen (Routledge, 2015) -
Grimoires : A History of Magic Books
Davies, Owen (Oxford University Press (OUP), 2009) -
Hag-riding in Nineteenth-Century West Country England and Modern Newfoundland : An Examination of an Experience-Centred Witchcraft Tradition
Davies, Owen (1996-01)Up until the early twentieth century, in parts of western and southern England, the dialect terms ‘hag-riding’ and ‘hagging’ were popularly used to describe a terrifying nocturnal assault by a witch. In Somerset and Dorset ...