Narratives and Rituals of the Nightmare Hag in Scandinavian Folk Belief

ISBN-13: 9783030489182 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 310 str.

Catharina Raudvere

Spis treści

Part I: Why the Nightmare Hag?

1. Why the Nightmare Hag? Points of departure

PART II: Imagining the Nightmare Hag and Warding Her Off

2. Imagining of the Nightmare Hag

3. Protection Against the Nightmare Hag

4. The Nightmare Hag and Magic Thinking

Part III: Narrating About the Nightmare Hag

5. A Model for an Analysis of the Hag Legends

6. Analogy Legends

7. Curse Legends

8. The Man Who Caught the Hag

9. The Nightmare Hag: narrative figure, personal experience and explanation of misfortune. Some concluding remarks

O autorze

Catharina Raudvere is Professor in the Department of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies in the Section for the History of Religions at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark.