Shaman of Oberstdorf by Wolfgang Behringer
This is the story of a 16th-century mountain village caught in a panic of its own making. Four hundred years ago, the Bavarian alpine town of Oberstdorf, surrounded by the towering peaks of the Vorarlberg, was awash in legends and rumours of prophets and healers, of spirits and spectres, of witches and soothsayers. The book focuses on the life of a horse wrangler named Chonrad Stoeckhlin (1549-1587), whose extraordinary visions of the afterlife and enthusiastic practice of the occult eventually led to his death - and to the death of a number of village women - for crimes of witchcraft. In addition to recounting Stoeckhlin's tale, this book examines the larger world of alpine myths concerning ghosts and other spirits of the night, documenting how these myths have been abused by German political movements over the years.From 1999 to 2003, Wolfgang Behringer was chair of early modern history at the University of York (UK), and is now a professor at Saarland University (Germany).
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| ISBN 13 | 9780813918532 |
| ISBN 10 | 0813918537 |
| Title | Shaman of Oberstdorf |
| Author | Wolfgang Behringer |
| Series | Studies In Early Modern German History |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | University of Virginia Press |
| Year published | 2000-06-30 |
| Number of pages | 224 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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