The Superstitious Mind : French Peasants and the Supernatural in the Nineteenth Century, Hardback Book

The Superstitious Mind : French Peasants and the Supernatural in the Nineteenth Century Hardback

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This intriguing book examines popular religion, traditional medicine, witchcraft, apparitions, demonology, and magic in nineteenth-century rural France.

Devlin demonstrates that many of the impulses and mental processes now considered superstitious constituted a wholly reasonable response to the pressures of a harsh and impoverished life.

Far from the product of a primitive mentality, many of these beliefs have survived in modern culture and can even illuminate the nature of modern mass politics.

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