audiobook Beyond the Pale: The Story of Sierra Nevada Brewing Co. by Ken Grossman in History

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The book provides a comprehensive exploration of witchcraft beliefs and practices in the rural region of Eastern Slovenia. Based on field research conducted at the beginning of the twenty-first century; it examines witchcraft in the region from folkloristic; anthropological; as well as historical; perspectives. Witchcraft is presented as part of social reality; strongly related to misfortune and involved in social relationships. The reality of the ascribed bewitching deeds; psychological mechanisms that may help bewitchment to work; circumstances in which bewitchment narratives can be mobilised; reasons for a person to acquire a reputation of the witch in the entire community; and the role that unwitchers fulfilled in the community; are but a few of the many topics discussed. In addition; the intertwinement of social witchcraft with narratives of supernatural experiences; closely associated with supernatural beings of European folklore; forming part of the overall witchcraft discourse in the area; is explored.