Mots La Mort Les Sorts by J Favret-Saada
This 1980 book examines witchcraft beliefs and experiences in the Bocage, a rural area of western France. 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. In the Bocage, being bewitched is to be 'caught' in a sequence of misfortunes. 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. Only a professional magician, an 'unwitcher', has any chance of breaking the succession of misfortunes which befall those who have been bewitched. He undertakes a battle of magic with the suspected witch, a battle which is eventually fatal.-
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| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9782070322817 |
| ISBN 10 | 2070322815 |
| Title | Mots La Mort Les Sorts |
| Author | J Favret-Saada |
| Series | Folio Essais |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Gallimard Education |
| Year published | 1985-02-01 |
| Number of pages | 427 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
| Note | Unavailable |