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Magic Tales and Fairy Tale Magic

Part of the Palgrave Historical Studies in Witchcraft and Magic Book Series

DOI: 10.1057/9781137380883

ISBN: 978-1-349-47946-7

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK - Springer Journals

Nov 7, 2015

1 - 9 of 9 Chapters

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Chapter 1Tales, Magic, and Fairy Tales

Bottigheimer, Ruth B.

Pages: 1 –10

[This book focuses on the narrative aspects of magic in magic tales from ancient Egypt to the Renaissance and the early modern period in Europe. In these tales magic often operates from a parallel world and affirms existing earthly and supernatural hierarchies. In the process, both magic and...
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Chapter 2Egyptian, Greek, and Roman Magic Tales

Bottigheimer, Ruth B.

Pages: 11 –31

[One of the world’s most ancient recorded stories tells of a sailor shipwrecked on a distant island. Just as he gives thanks for his deliverance, a monstrously large, gold-skinned serpent with blue eyebrows approaches. The serpent asks who brought him to these shores, which the sailor,...
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Chapter 3Jewish Magic Tales

Bottigheimer, Ruth B.

Pages: 32 –63

[This chapter’s explorations of Jewish magic tales rest on Hebrew manuscript books that are traceable to specific geographic locations or particular historical eras, and sometimes to both. Biblical histories from the Torah, the first five books of the canonical Bible, underlay centuries of Jewish...
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Chapter 4Magic Tales in Medieval Christian Europe

Bottigheimer, Ruth B.

Pages: 64 –83

[A vast variety of stories circulated in the Christian Middle Ages. Their differing casts of characters reflected Europe’s mix of Celtic, Germanic, Latin, and Slavic ethnic groups and its pagan and Christian religious cultures. Story plots communicate peasant, mercantile, courtly, and cloistered...
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Chapter 5Magic Tales in the Muslim Middle Ages

Bottigheimer, Ruth B.

Pages: 84 –120

[In contrast to the two previous chapters, only two medieval manuscript texts inform the greater part of this chapter.1 One, Tales of the Marvellous (Al-hikayat al-’ajiba) contains 18 stories of its original 42; the other, Alf Layla wa-Layla (Thousand and One Nights), consists of the frametale,...
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Chapter 6Magic at Court and on the Piazza

Bottigheimer, Ruth B.

Pages: 121 –147

[As the three previous chapters show, oral performances in the medieval period were infinite in their variety. Some were spontaneous, the outbursts of court jesters or village fools, or the witticisms of clever individuals. Others were prepared. The preacher had studied the sermon tale he told to...
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Chapter 7The Problematics of Magic on the Threshold of Fairy Tale Magic: Straparola’s Early Modern Pleasant Nights

Bottigheimer, Ruth B.

Pages: 148 –167

[Giovan Francesco Straparola’s Piacevoli Notti (The Pleasant Nights) holds surprises when it comes to magic. The kinds of magic that Straparola introduced into his 1550s tale collection, the ways in which he did so, and his apparent attitudes toward magic are unanticipated, as is the disjunction...
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Chapter 8The Evolution of Fairy Tale Magic from Straparola to Basile and Perrault

Bottigheimer, Ruth B.

Pages: 168 –182

[Within the magic in Giovan Francesco Straparola’s tales in the Pleasant Nights, it is principally satanic black magic as practiced in “Ortodosio and Isabella” (VII.1) and “The Sorcerer’s Apprentice” (VIII.5) that conflicted with canon law. The sorceress Gabriela in “Ortodosio and Isabella,”...
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Chapter 9Afterword

Bottigheimer, Ruth B.

Pages: 183 –184

[For millennia the gods and demons in brief narratives wielded magic mainly in their own interest. Changing that paradigm required a changed vision of the human condition vis-à-vis the world of demons and divinities. It also required a new belief in the importance, desirability, and legitimacy of...

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