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This is the first volume of a series of three, containing 11 essays of altogether 43 articles based on the topics of the interdisciplinary conference held on this topic in Budapest in 1999. The authors - recognized historians, ethnologists, folklorists coming from 4 continents - present the latest research findings of an important area of universal human mental experiences and techniques and basic religious-ethnological concepts. The present volume focuses on the problem of communication with the other world: the phenomenon of spirit possession and its changing historical interpretations, the imaginary schemes elaborated for giving accounts of the journeys to the other world, for communicating with the dead, and finally the historical archetypes of this type of religious manifestation - trance prophecy, divination, and shamanism.

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This volume offers essays dealing with demonic possession, visionary experiences, trance states, and shamanism... the volume effectively demonstrates the range of work being undertaken that can usefully brought together on topics of demonology, magic, superstition, and witchcraft. * Magic, Ritual & Witchcraft *

"""This volume offers essays dealing with demonic possession, visionary experiences, trance states, and shamanism... the volume effectively demonstrates the range of work being undertaken that can usefully brought together on topics of demonology, magic, superstition, and witchcraft."" * Magic, Ritual & Witchcraft *"

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Éva Pócs is Professor emeritus at the Department of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology, University of Pécs, Hungary. Gábor Klaniczay is University Professor of Medieval Studies at the Central European University.

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