Rpt. 2000 186pp Central European University Press. Illustrated. Pictorial boards. Near fine.
 
NB. on the blank endpapers there are a couple of handwritten notes regarding spirit contact and schizophrenia (one pencil note erased)
 
Pocs examines the relics of European shamanism in early modern sources, and the techniques and belief-systems of mediators found in the records of witchcraft trials from the sixteenth to the eighteenth century. The book explores the various communication systems known to early modern Hungarians, describes the role of these systems in everyday village life, and shows how they were connected to contemporary European systems, as well as new types of mediators and systems which function right up to the twentieth century.