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The Superstitious Mind

by Judith Devlin

  • First published:
  • 20th century
  • Language: English

Description

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This intriguing book examines popular religion, traditional medicine, witchcraft, apparitions, demonology, and magic in nineteenth-century rural France. Devlin demonstrates that many of the impulses and mental processes now considered superstitious constituted a wholly reasonable response to the pressures of a harsh and impoverished life. Far from the product of a primitive mentality, many of these beliefs have survived in modern culture and can even illuminate the nature of modern mass politics.

Provenance

Why this book is in the catalog

Included because retained bibliographic metadata links this work to Demonology, angelology, and possession, Ritual magic and grimoires, and Witchcraft and folk magic.

  • Ritual magic and grimoires

    Retained metadata contains “Magic” in the description and “Magic” in the subject metadata.

    • “Magic”· in description
    • “Magic”· in subject
  • Witchcraft and folk magic

    Retained metadata contains “Witchcraft” in the description.

    • “Witchcraft”· in description
  • Demonology, angelology, and possession

    Controlled discovery queries from openalex matched “demonology”. Retained metadata contains “Demonology” in the description and “Demonology” in the subject metadata.

    • “demonology”· via OpenAlex
    • “Demonology”· in description
    • “Demonology”· in subject

Membership records how this book met the catalog’s discovery criteria — relevance to a tradition, not a judgment of the book’s claims.

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Editions

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OpenAlex scholarly book record

1987-09-10Yale University Press; Yale University Press eBooksEnglish—Unknown

Subjects

13 subject headings

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openalex:W4300535031
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