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Demon-Haunted Land: Witches, Healers, and Ghosts of the Past in Post-War Germany

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Demon-Haunted Land: Witches, Healers, and Ghosts of the Past in Post-War Germany
14.99 €
This book is unique. American professor Monica Black does not simply address the postwar period in Germany, but examines the tragic pages of the past through the prism of the flourishing of witchcraft, folk healing, increased interest in secret symbols and omens, giving all these phenomena a quite rational explanation. As a scholar-historian, Monica Black looks for the origins of events in bygone times, discovering, for example, the propensity of the inhabitants of Germanic lands to witchcraft practices in the Middle Ages. This inclination would later spill over into the development of the occult sciences in the Third Reich. The craving of Germans for magical rituals and witch doctors of all sorts after the Second World War seems quite logical in this line. Mass deaths, the collapse of the state, and a collective sense of guilt all encouraged citizens of the newly formed Federal Republic of Germany to seek support in the realm of the irrational. The book is full of examples connected with specific fates, the narrative is easy to grasp and gripping as much as another mystical thriller.
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