Old Thiess, a Livonian werewolf a classic case in comparative perspective
"The topic of werewolves has flared in the popular imagination in recent years, but the case of Thiess-a self-admitted werewolf who claimed that, thrice yearly, he transformed and battled Satan and his witches as a protector of humanity and the forest-is as baffling today as it was in seventeen...
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The University of Chicago Press
2020
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Inhaltsangabe:
- Introduction Bruce Lincoln Introduction, a postscript Carlo Ginzburg The trial; transcript from the Hearings at the Provincial Court of Venden (April 28, 1691) ; The Verdict Pronounced by the High Court of Dorpat [Tartu] (October 31, 1692)
- Comparison of Old Thiess to Germanic cult groups, folklore, and Persephone myths Otto Höfler; translated by Bruce Lincoln Comparison of Old Thiess to Friulian Benandanti, Russian werewolves, and shamanic others Carlo Ginzburg Comparison of Old Thiess to learned descriptions and stereotypes of Livonian werewolves and to the Benandanti : a seventeenth-century werewolf and the drama of religious resistance Bruce Lincoln Ginzburg Responds to Lincoln : co onjunctive anomalies
- a reflection on werewolves
- Lincoln Responds to Ginzburg : Letter of February 8
- The Case of Old Thiess : a Comparative prspective. A conversation: Saturday, September 30, 2017 ; The conversation continues : Monday, October 2, 2017
- Appendix A: Commonalities between Thiess's testimony and descriptions of Livonian werewolves in learned literature
- Appendix B: A Livonian narrative featuring the opposition of werewolves and witches