Monday, January 17, 2022

"Male Witches and Gendered Categories in Seventeenth-Century Russia"

2003, Comparative Studies in Society and History
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... If female magic differed at all from male magic, it was more in being geared more toward ameliorating domestic situations, but the differences are too minor to allow one to describe distinct male and female languages of magic along the lines of Labouvies Saar witches. 



Prosaic Witchcraft and Semiotic Totalitarianism: Muscovite Magic Reconsidered

Author(s): Valerie Kivelson and Jonathan Shaheen
Source:
Slavic Review,
Vol. 70, No. 1 (SPRING 2011), pp. 23-44Published by: Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies; CambridgeUniversity Press


Elena Smilianskaia. Fortunetellers and Sorcerers in the Service of a Russian Aristocrat of the Eighteenth Century: The Case of Chamberlain Petr Saltykov 

Russian History. 2013. Vol. 40. No. 3-4. P. 364-380.




"Decriminalizing Witchcraft in Pre-Emancipation Russia," in Späte Hexenprozesse: Der Umgang der Aufklärung mit dem Irrationalen, ed. by Wolfgang Behringer, Sönke Lorenz, and Dieter R. Bauer (Bielefeld: Verlag für Regionalgeschichte, 2016), 281-308.

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