Witchcraft and Magic in the Nordic Middle Ages protection against evil believed to help focus the

believed to help focus the mind

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Witchcraft and Magic in the Nordic Middle Ages protection against evil believed to help focus theStephen A. Mitchell here offers the fullest examination available of witchcraft in late medieval Scandinavia. He focuses on those people believed to be ableand who in some instances thought themselves ableto manipulate the world around them through magical practices, and on the responses to these beliefs in the legal, literary, and popular cultures of the Nordic Middle Ages. His sources range from the Icelandic sagas to cultural monuments much less