Procesy o czary we wsi Mnichowo. Przyczynek do dziejów społecznych wsi wielkopolskiej w drugiej połowie XVII wieku
Witch trials in Mnichowo village: a case study on the social history of the countryside in Greater Poland in the second half of the 17th century

Summary/Abstract: Victims of the witch trials in the early modern period were mainly inhabitants of countryside and smaller towns. From the beginning of the 1970s in the Western historiography the phenomenon of the witch hunt has been researched as an essential component of the daily life of countryside inhabitants. In the Polish historiography the subject under discussion has been only marginally touched upon. The author, basing on the primary local sources, analyzes the witch trials in Mnichowo village in Greater Poland in the 17th century. The analyze confirms an essential influence of the belief in sorcery and activities of witches and sorcerers on a daily life of the local peasants and their neighbor relations.

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