{"product_id":"deadly-words-witchcraft-in-the-bocage-0521297877","title":"Deadly Words: Witchcraft in the Bocage","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0521297877\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/strong\u003e Jeanne Favret-Saada\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e New\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis 1980 book examines witchcraft beliefs and experiences in the Bocage, a rural area of western France. It also introduced a powerful theoretical attitude towards the progress of the ethnographer's enquiries, suggesting that a full knowledge of witchcraft involves being 'caught up' in it oneself. In the Bocage, being bewitched is to be 'caught' in a sequence of misfortunes. According to those who are bewitched, the culprit is someone in the neighbourhood: the witch, who can cast a spell with a word, a touch or a look, and whose 'power' comes from a book of spells inherited from an ancestor. Only a professional magician, an 'unwitcher', has any chance of breaking the succession of misfortunes which befall those who have been bewitched. He undertakes a battle of magic with the suspected witch, a battle which is eventually fatal.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mia Karts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67919406858528,"sku":"NEW0521297877","price":61.22,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0980\/7426\/3840\/files\/6102QoMgFAL_42dbaf5e-1ed9-4fee-a85b-031f2be63fee.jpg?v=1792661704","url":"https:\/\/miakarts.com\/products\/deadly-words-witchcraft-in-the-bocage-0521297877","provider":"Miakarts Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}