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Possessed: Women, Witches, and Demons in Imperial Russia, Women known as shriekers howled, screamed, convulsed, and tore their clothes. Believed to be possessed by devils, these central figures in a cultural drama known as klikushestvo stirred various reactions among those who encountered them. While sy, Possessed: Women, Witches, and Demons in Imperial Russia
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  • Possessed: Women, Witches, and Demons in Imperial Russia
  • Written by author Christine D. Worobec
  • Published by Northern Illinois University Press, 2003/10/01
  • Women known as "shriekers" howled, screamed, convulsed, and tore their clothes. Believed to be possessed by devils, these central figures in a cultural drama known as klikushestvo stirred various reactions among those who encountered them. While sy
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Confronting Klikushestvo: An Introduction
1. State and Church Perceptions
The Legal Case Orthodoxy's Triumph over the Devil Scientific Rationalism and the Miraculous Conclusion
2. Peasant Views
Popular Orthodoxy Witchcraft
3. Literary and Ethnographic Portrayals
Romantic Images Images of Serfdome An Ethnographic-Historical Account Feodor Dostoevsky Leo Tolstoy The Dark Side of Peasant Beliefs Conclusion
4. Psychiatric Diagnoses
The Search for Klikushi Scientific Rationalism versus. Popular Practices Hysteria versus. Somnambulism Mass Psychology Conclusion
5. Sorting through Multiple Realities
Appendix 1: Database of Klikushi/klikuny
Appendix 2: Database of Witchcraft Cases Notes Bibliography Index


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