Italian Witchcraft Charms and Neapolitan Witchcraft - The Cimaruta, its Structure and Development (Folklore History Series)

Italian Witchcraft Charms and Neapolitan Witchcraft - The Cimaruta, its Structure and Development (Folklore History Series) - Hardcover

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Italian Witchcraft Charms and Neapolitan Witchcraft - The Cimaruta, its Structure and Development (Folklore History Series)

Italian Witchcraft Charms and Neapolitan Witchcraft - The Cimaruta, its Structure and Development (Folklore History Series) - Hardcover

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This compact volume is a wealth of knowledge on Neapolitan witchcraft, with a primary focus on the folklore behind the Cimaruta.

Delve into the mysticism of rural Southern Italy in the early 1900s and explore the many traditional superstitions and beliefs of Naples. This fascinating collection of notes features an oral transcript between the author and a practising witch. A perfect read for those who wish to learn more about the Italian folk amulet, the Cimaruta, which is worn to ward off the evil eye's curse.

Number of Pages: 52
Dimensions: 0.25 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN
Publication Date: November 23, 2022
ISBN9781528772983
Author Various
PublisherPierides Press
GenreEducation
FormatHardcover
PublishedNovember 2022
LanguageENG- English
Pages52
Weight1.0 lb
Target AudienceAdults
Print SizeStandard Print

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About Various

James Nagel, Edison Distonguished Professor of English at the University of Georgia, has edited several collections on the works of Ernest Hemingway, Stephen Crane, and Hamlin Garland, as well as the Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics edition of John Steinbeck's Pastures of Heaven.Tom Quirk is the Catherine Paine Middlebush Professor of English at the University of Missouri-Columbia. He is the editor of the Penguin Classics editions of Mark Twain's Tales, Speeches, Essays, and Sketches (1994) and Ambrose Bierce's Tales of Soldiers and Civilians and Other Stories (2000) and co-editor of The Portable American Realism Reader (1997). His other books include Coming to Grips with Huckleberry Finn (1993), Mark Twain: A Study of the Short Fiction (1997) and Nothing Abstract: Investigations in the American Literary Imagination (2001).

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