MARTOR 28 / 2023

WITCHCRAFT, MAGIC, DIVINATION AND THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY

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DOI: www.doi.org/10.57225/martor.2023.28

Coordinators: Tünde KOMÁROMI, Ileana BENGA, Bogdan NEAGOTA

Partner of the project: Muzeul Maramureșului (Museum of Maramureș), Sighetul Marmației, Romania

Contents– Sommaire

I. Magic, Witchcraft and Cultural Frameworks 1:  Contemporary Russia and France

Christine WOROBEC
Witches, Sorcerers, and Demons in a Remote Corner of Northern Russia at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century

Olga KHRISTOFOROVA
“We Live in the Country of the Victorious Kafka”: Witchcraft and Magic in Present-Day Russia  

Déborah KESSLER-BILTHAUER
Faire et défaire des attaques de sorcellerie dans la Lorraine (France) du XXI^e siècle 

II. Magic, Witchcraft and Cultural Frameworks 2: Contemporary Romania

Camelia BURGHELE
Changing Destinies by Fighting Against Bad Luck  

Elena BĂRBULESCU
“Was I or Wasn’t I Bewitched?” Conversations about Magic in Rural Transylvania  

Tünde KOMÁROMI 
Marriage and Magic in a Transylvanian Village  

III. Magic and Religion: Contributions to an Old Anthropological Discussion

Laura JIGA ILIESCU 
Oneiric Authentication of a Miraculous Shrine. Case Study from a Dobruja Monastery, Romania 

Astrid CAMBOSE
Reflections on Christian Magic  

Mihaela (MARIN) CĂLINESCU
The Magical Power of Căluș Against Ieleʼs Possession in Dolj County 

Vasile ALBINEȚ
Bōlērākō-cu! / “Speak, I’m Talking to You!” Reconstructing the Self in Tamang Shamanism 

IV. Field Notes and Dialogues

Gréta VASKOR, Tünde KOMÁROMI
Witches in Fairy Tales and their Use in Therapy. Interview with Gréta Vaskor 

Nicolae MIHAI 
Did White Swallowwort (Vincetoxicum hirundinaria) Exist or Did It not During the Organic Regulations Regime? Notes on Some Previously Unknown Documents from Wallachia

Alexandra COȚOFANĂ; Anamaria IUGA
On “The Familial Occult.” An Interview with Alexandra Coțofană 

V. Reading Notes and Book Reviews

Emma Wilby. 2019. Invoking the Akelarre. Voices of the Accused in the Basque Witch-Craze, 1609-1614. Brighton, Chicago, Toronto: Sussex Academic Press, 480 p.
(Reviewed by Ileana BENGA)

Bogdan NEAGOTA 
Notes on the Iconography of Witchcraft in Romanian Art

Hajnalka TAMÁS 
New Insights on Magic and Early Christianity

Hajnalka TAMÁS 
Magical Objects, Magical Writing: Amulets Across the Ages

Proiect editorial co-finanțat de Administrația Fondului Cultural Național. / This issue of Martor has been published with the financial support of the National Cultural Fund Administration (AFCN Romania).

Proiectul nu reprezintă în mod necesar poziția Administrației Fondului Cultural Național. AFCN nu este responsabil de conținutul proiectului sau de modul în care rezultatele proiectului pot fi folosite. Acestea sunt în întregime responsabilitatea beneficiarului finanțării. / This project does not necessarily represent the position of the National Cultural Fund Administration. AFCN is not responsible for the content of the project or the ways its results may be used. These are entirely the responsibility of the beneficiary.