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Contemporary European Witchcraft

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Styrian Witches in European Perspective

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This chapter presents not only various reasons that contributed to the decline of rural witchcraft in Europe but also ways of its continuation and transformation after the period of witch trials, as well as typical contexts in which researchers have come across vital witchcraft in the twentieth and twenty-first century Europe.

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Mencej, M. (2017). Contemporary European Witchcraft. In: Styrian Witches in European Perspective. Palgrave Historical Studies in Witchcraft and Magic. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-37250-5_2

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