Add to ORKGWhat is the power of the mind over the body? What is the degree of psychological or psychic manipulation that may be exercised over any person? Selecting numerous cases indicating popular beliefs in the supernatural, and methods of folk medicine – from confessions before the Inquisition Tribunal – Francis Ciappara here throws some light on the dubious faith of the simple man in moments of pain, including some most weird superstitious practices caused partly by medical insufficiency and party by an exotic, if not actually magical, disposition to life. We may laugh, but these extreme cases are recorded as having actually happened throughout the Maltese islands not so many generations ago; nor are beliefs relating to such things as the evil ey...
The story of disease and healing in the Maltese Islands begins with the earliest inhabitants of Ma...
n Italy the offence of circumvention of the mentally incapable is defined in art. 643 of the Penal C...
n Italy the offence of circumvention of the mentally incapable is defined in art. 643 of the Penal C...
This paper analyses two and a half years of witchcraft accusations in mid-seventeenth century Malta ...
In early modern Malta, as in the rest of Europe, there existed two major systems by which one could ...
In early modern Malta, as in the rest of Europe, there existed two major systems by which one could ...
A rather mysterious and atypical manuscript preserved in the National Library under wraps of massive...
While historians have explored the deployment of medical expertisein studies of the supernatural for...
The example of the practices of three eighteenth and nineteenth century physicians, the author point...
The example of the practices of three eighteenth and nineteenth century physicians, the author point...
How did ordinary early modern Europeans regard health and sickness? How did they explain their illne...
How did ordinary early modern Europeans regard health and sickness? How did they explain their illne...
Mystical behavior has some companions. We cannot deny the place of superstitions, myths, and legends...
Mystical behavior has some companions. We cannot deny the place of superstitions, myths, and legends...
The main points are related to the cultural-anthropological (Michel Foucault) and theological contex...
The story of disease and healing in the Maltese Islands begins with the earliest inhabitants of Ma...
n Italy the offence of circumvention of the mentally incapable is defined in art. 643 of the Penal C...
n Italy the offence of circumvention of the mentally incapable is defined in art. 643 of the Penal C...
This paper analyses two and a half years of witchcraft accusations in mid-seventeenth century Malta ...
In early modern Malta, as in the rest of Europe, there existed two major systems by which one could ...
In early modern Malta, as in the rest of Europe, there existed two major systems by which one could ...
A rather mysterious and atypical manuscript preserved in the National Library under wraps of massive...
While historians have explored the deployment of medical expertisein studies of the supernatural for...
The example of the practices of three eighteenth and nineteenth century physicians, the author point...
The example of the practices of three eighteenth and nineteenth century physicians, the author point...
How did ordinary early modern Europeans regard health and sickness? How did they explain their illne...
How did ordinary early modern Europeans regard health and sickness? How did they explain their illne...
Mystical behavior has some companions. We cannot deny the place of superstitions, myths, and legends...
Mystical behavior has some companions. We cannot deny the place of superstitions, myths, and legends...
The main points are related to the cultural-anthropological (Michel Foucault) and theological contex...
The story of disease and healing in the Maltese Islands begins with the earliest inhabitants of Ma...
n Italy the offence of circumvention of the mentally incapable is defined in art. 643 of the Penal C...
n Italy the offence of circumvention of the mentally incapable is defined in art. 643 of the Penal C...