Willem De Blécourt
Biographic Data
| ID | 170102 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Willem De Blécourt |
| GIVEN NAMES | Willem |
| FAMILY NAME | De Blécourt |
| SIGNATURE | DE BLÉCOURT W |
| AFFILIATIONS | East Sussex County Council |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 56 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Gustav Henningsen (1934–2023)
I first met Gustav at a meeting of the Arbeitskreis Interdisziplin are Hexenforschung (AKIH-Interdisciplinary Witch Research Working Group) in Weingarten, Germany, in early 1996.I remember particularly a long conversation on the Bodensee when we had an outing to Koblenz and took a boat journey back to Friedrichshafen where the bus picked us up again.Gustav may have given a talk on the Spanish Inquisitors, but since we were also both folklorists w…
Reading Heupers: The Witchcraft Texts. An Analysis of Eight Years of Oral Interviews
Engelbert Heupers’s ‘folktales’, collected in the 1960s, form the second largest collection in the Netherlands. Although they relate to ‘superstition’, they should be regarded as fragments of oral history, albeit on legendary subjects, rather than legends, or even memorates. They were told as genuine memories. Especially the witchcraft texts, analysed here, referred to past events and some were corroborated by newspaper reports. Heupers’s work su…
Witchcraft Continued: Popular magic in modern Europe
The Army of Amazons] (1999) which deals with irregular female healers in the Netherlands, 1850-1930
Witchcraft Continued
Tales of magic, tales in print: On the genealogy of fairy tales and the Brothers Grimm
Witchcraft, Witch-Hunting, and Politics in Early Modern England, written by Peter Elmer
Martin Delrio. Demonology and Scholarship in the Counter-Reformation, written by Jan Machielsen
A Cultural History of Tarot. From Entertainment to Esotericism
The history of the occult is fraught with fabrications, unwarranted assumptions, and pure speculation. This applies to the history of tarot cards, especially their popular history. My own deck of t
Between the Devil and the Host: Imagining Witchcraft in Early Modern Poland
Between the Devil and the Host: Imagining Witchcraft in Early Modern Poland." Folklore, 125(3), pp. 374–375
"Keep That Woman Out!" Notions of Space in Twentieth-century Flemish Witchcraft Discourse
This article considers the importance of a spatial dimension for witchcraft research, which has so far been largely neglected. In twentieth-century Europe people in certain regions still considered their world in terms of witchcraft; they attributed misfortune to bewitchments and usually blamed their neighbors. Here a part of Flemish-speaking Belgium is investigated with the help of legend texts collected in the 1960s. The witchcraft discourse th…
The Religion of Fools? Superstition Past and Present
Edited by S.A. Smith and Alan Knight. Past and Present, Vol. 199, Supplement 3. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008, 351 pp. £ 30.00 (pbk), ISBN 978-019-956137-7 Throughout history “superstition”
Night's Black Agents: Witches, Wizards and the Dead in the Ancient World
Daniel Ogden, London and New York: Hambledon Continuum, 2008, 230 pp. £30.00 (hbk), ISBN 978-1-847-25033-9 Antiquity was saturated with magic. Of course, such a statement would need to be qualified
Witchcraft, Gender and Society in Early Modern Germany
Brill is delighted to announce that it has renewed its Transformative Agreement with Jisc in the UK for 2023-2024. Brill is one of the leading academic publishers in the Humanities, Social Sciences and Biology, with a broad Open Access portfolio consisting of more than 1,100 books and several thousand journal articles
I Would Have Eaten You Too ”: Werewolf Legends in the Flemish, Dutch and German Area
A geographical approach to werewolf legends results in the identification of a major werewolf area, stretching from mid-Germany into the Netherlands and Belgium-despite profound differences in the intensity of collecting the legends. Within this area there were people who were experiencing nightly encounters, especially with back-riding werewolves, and they advised each other about how best to overcome the beasts. Migratory legends, such as the W…
Beyond the witch trials: Witchcraft and magic in Enlightenment Europe
Evil people': a late eighteenth-century Dutch witch doctor and his clients Willem de Blécourt
Witchcraft continued: Popular magic in modern Europe
The Army of Amazons] (1999) which deals with irregular female healers in the Netherlands, 1850-1930
The Making of the Female Witch: Reflections on Witchcraft and Gender in the Early Modern Period
Witch doctors, soothsayers and priests. On cunning folk in European historiography and tradition
(1994). Witch doctors, soothsayers and priests. On cunning folk in European historiography and tradition. Social History: Vol. 19, No. 3, pp. 285-303
Beyond the witch trials: Witchcraft and magic in Enlightenment Europe
Evil people': a late eighteenth-century Dutch witch doctor and his clients Willem de Blécourt
Witchcraft continued: Popular magic in modern Europe
The Army of Amazons] (1999) which deals with irregular female healers in the Netherlands, 1850-1930
Witch doctors, soothsayers and priests. On cunning folk in European historiography and tradition
(1994). Witch doctors, soothsayers and priests. On cunning folk in European historiography and tradition. Social History: Vol. 19, No. 3, pp. 285-303
The Making of the Female Witch: Reflections on Witchcraft and Gender in the Early Modern Period
I Would Have Eaten You Too ”: Werewolf Legends in the Flemish, Dutch and German Area
A geographical approach to werewolf legends results in the identification of a major werewolf area, stretching from mid-Germany into the Netherlands and Belgium-despite profound differences in the intensity of collecting the legends. Within this area there were people who were experiencing nightly encounters, especially with back-riding werewolves, and they advised each other about how best to overcome the beasts. Migratory legends, such as the W…
Witch doctors, soothsayers and priests. On cunning folk in European historiography and tradition
(1994). Witch doctors, soothsayers and priests. On cunning folk in European historiography and tradition. Social History: Vol. 19, No. 3, pp. 285-303
The Making of the Female Witch: Reflections on Witchcraft and Gender in the Early Modern Period
Beyond the witch trials: Witchcraft and magic in Enlightenment Europe
Evil people': a late eighteenth-century Dutch witch doctor and his clients Willem de Blécourt
Witchcraft continued: Popular magic in modern Europe
The Army of Amazons] (1999) which deals with irregular female healers in the Netherlands, 1850-1930
I Would Have Eaten You Too ”: Werewolf Legends in the Flemish, Dutch and German Area
A geographical approach to werewolf legends results in the identification of a major werewolf area, stretching from mid-Germany into the Netherlands and Belgium-despite profound differences in the intensity of collecting the legends. Within this area there were people who were experiencing nightly encounters, especially with back-riding werewolves, and they advised each other about how best to overcome the beasts. Migratory legends, such as the W…
Witchcraft, Gender and Society in Early Modern Germany
Brill is delighted to announce that it has renewed its Transformative Agreement with Jisc in the UK for 2023-2024. Brill is one of the leading academic publishers in the Humanities, Social Sciences and Biology, with a broad Open Access portfolio consisting of more than 1,100 books and several thousand journal articles
The Religion of Fools? Superstition Past and Present
Edited by S.A. Smith and Alan Knight. Past and Present, Vol. 199, Supplement 3. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008, 351 pp. £ 30.00 (pbk), ISBN 978-019-956137-7 Throughout history “superstition”
Night's Black Agents: Witches, Wizards and the Dead in the Ancient World
Daniel Ogden, London and New York: Hambledon Continuum, 2008, 230 pp. £30.00 (hbk), ISBN 978-1-847-25033-9 Antiquity was saturated with magic. Of course, such a statement would need to be qualified
"Keep That Woman Out!" Notions of Space in Twentieth-century Flemish Witchcraft Discourse
This article considers the importance of a spatial dimension for witchcraft research, which has so far been largely neglected. In twentieth-century Europe people in certain regions still considered their world in terms of witchcraft; they attributed misfortune to bewitchments and usually blamed their neighbors. Here a part of Flemish-speaking Belgium is investigated with the help of legend texts collected in the 1960s. The witchcraft discourse th…
A Cultural History of Tarot. From Entertainment to Esotericism
The history of the occult is fraught with fabrications, unwarranted assumptions, and pure speculation. This applies to the history of tarot cards, especially their popular history. My own deck of t
Between the Devil and the Host: Imagining Witchcraft in Early Modern Poland
Between the Devil and the Host: Imagining Witchcraft in Early Modern Poland." Folklore, 125(3), pp. 374–375
Martin Delrio. Demonology and Scholarship in the Counter-Reformation, written by Jan Machielsen
Witchcraft, Witch-Hunting, and Politics in Early Modern England, written by Peter Elmer
Witchcraft Continued: Popular magic in modern Europe
The Army of Amazons] (1999) which deals with irregular female healers in the Netherlands, 1850-1930
Witchcraft Continued
Tales of magic, tales in print: On the genealogy of fairy tales and the Brothers Grimm
Reading Heupers: The Witchcraft Texts. An Analysis of Eight Years of Oral Interviews
Engelbert Heupers’s ‘folktales’, collected in the 1960s, form the second largest collection in the Netherlands. Although they relate to ‘superstition’, they should be regarded as fragments of oral history, albeit on legendary subjects, rather than legends, or even memorates. They were told as genuine memories. Especially the witchcraft texts, analysed here, referred to past events and some were corroborated by newspaper reports. Heupers’s work su…
Gustav Henningsen (1934–2023)
I first met Gustav at a meeting of the Arbeitskreis Interdisziplin are Hexenforschung (AKIH-Interdisciplinary Witch Research Working Group) in Weingarten, Germany, in early 1996.I remember particularly a long conversation on the Bodensee when we had an outing to Koblenz and took a boat journey back to Friedrichshafen where the bus picked us up again.Gustav may have given a talk on the Spanish Inquisitors, but since we were also both folklorists w…
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