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Witchcraft in Russia and Ukraine, 1000-1900 : A Sourcebook.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: NIU Series in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian StudiesPublisher: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2020Copyright date: ©2022Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (537 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781501750670
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Witchcraft in Russia and Ukraine, 1000-1900DDC classification:
  • 133.430947
LOC classification:
  • BF1584.R8
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Contents:
Witchcraft in Russia and Ukraine, 1000-1900 -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Timeline -- Acknowledgments -- List of Abbreviations -- Note on Translation and Transliteration -- Introduction -- Part I. Historical Evolution, Law, and Prosecution -- 1. Early Accounts of Witchcraft, Sorcery, and Magic in Medieval Rus -- 1.1. Pagan Soothsayers and Magicians in the Primary Chronicle -- 1.2. "Maybe, but God Knows": Sorcery in the Novgorodian Chronicle (1227) -- 1.3. Bishop Serapion of Vladimir Condemns Belief in Witchcraft (1274) -- 1.4. St. Alimpii and the Leper Who Consulted Magicians (Kyivan Patericon) -- 2. Witchcraft and Politics in Muscovy and the Hetmanate -- 2.1. The Death of Maria of Tver, Ivan III's First Wife, by Witchcraft (1467) -- 2.2. Witchcraft Accusations against Grand Princess Sofia Paleologue (1497) -- 2.3. Witchcraft Accusations against Grand Princess Solomonia Saburova (1525) -- 2.4. Trials of Maksim the Greek for Treason, Heresy, and Sorcery (1525 &amp -- 1531) -- 2.5. The Great Moscow Fire and the Sprinkling of Human Hearts by the Tsar's Grandmother, Anna Glinskaia (1547) -- 2.6. Ivan Peresvetov's 1549 Tale about Sorcery at Court in the Final Days of the Byzantine Empire (Excerpts from the "Greater Petition") -- 2.7. Jerome Horsey on Witchcraft at the Court of Ivan IV (the Terrible) -- 2.8. The Vicious Sorcerer Eleazar Bomelius Described in a Russian Chronicle -- 2.9. Sorcery Allegations from Ivan the Terrible's Correspondence with Prince Kurbskii and Kurbskii's History of the Grand Prince of Moscow -- 2.10. Loyalty Oaths -- 2.11. Grigorii Kotoshikhin and Samuel Collins on the Alleged Poisoning or Bewitchment of Tsar Aleksei Mikhailovich's First Betrothed, and on Bewitchment at Weddings (1647) -- 2.12. Hetman Ivan Briukhovetskii's Burning of Witches (1666) -- 2.13. Political Sorcery against the Prussian King (1760).
3. Laws and Guidelines concerning the Prosecution of Witchcraft, Late Twelfth Century to 1885 -- 3.1. Byzantine Church Law and Its Echoes in Russia -- Kormchaia kniga (1653) -- Excerpt from a court case from the late 1660s containing a fragment of the Kormchaia -- Church Statute of Iaroslav the Wise (late twelfth/early thirteenth century) -- Russian Orthodox penitential listings involving sorcery and magic (fourteenth-early nineteenth centuries) -- The Domostroi: A household handbook of the mid-sixteenth century -- 3.2. Excerpts from Charles V's 1532 Constitutio Criminalis Carolina and the 1559 Polish Version -- 3.3. Procedures for the Courts and Affairs of Towns under Magdeburg Law under the Polish Crown (1559) -- 3.4. Questions and Answers from the Moscow Church Council (Stoglav) of 1551 -- 3.5. Ivan IV's 1552 Law on Witchcraft -- 3.6. 1589 Law on the Honor of Witches -- 3.7. 1648 Decree against Devilish Conduct -- 3.8. Sobornoe ulozhenie: The Conciliar Law Code of 1649 -- 3.9. Aleksei Mikhailovich's Decree Prohibiting Witchcraft and Activities Repellent to God (1653) -- 3.10. "Newly Established Articles on Robbery, Brigandage, and Murder and Related Decree" (1669) -- 3.11. Grigorii Kotoshikhin on Muscovite Judicial Process, Torture, and Execution (1660s) -- 3.12. Peter I's 1715 Decree against Shriekers (the Demonically Possessed) -- 3.13. Peter I's 1716 Military Statute and Suggested Revisions to Its Religious Articles (1725) -- 3.14. Excerpts from the Spiritual Regulation (1721) -- 3.15. Holy Synod's Decree against the Swimming of Individuals (1721) -- 3.16. Empress Anna Ioannovna's Decree against Wizardry (1731) -- 3.17. Catherine II's 1767 Instructions to the Legislative Commission and the Holy Synod's Response -- 3.18. Senate's Ruling Admonishing Judges (1770) -- 3.19. Catherine II's Decrees (1775 and 1782).
3.20. Excerpts from the Criminal Laws: 1842, 1845, and 1885 editions -- 4. Witchcraft Trials' Processes and Extralegal Prosecution of Witchcraft: Complete Records -- A. Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (PLC) and The Hetmanate -- 4.1. Andrei Kurbskii's Sorcery Allegations against His Wife, Maria Iurevna Golshanskaia, in Divorce Proceedings (1578) -- 4.2. False Accusation of Witchcraft against Siemionowa Pauciutina, a Cossack Woman (1634) -- 4.3. Swimming of Witches in Podillia (1711) -- 4.4. Witchcraft and Infanticide (1753) -- B. Muscovy and Imperial Russia -- 4.5. The Trial of the Old Peasant Woman Baba Daritsa and Others (1647) -- 4.6. A Case of Suspicious Roots: Rogataia Baba and the Use of Torture (1647-48) -- 4.7. A Mass Outbreak of Possession in the Town of Lukh (1656-60) -- 4.8. The 1758 Trial of Chamberlain Petr Vasilevich Saltykov -- 4.9. The 1764-65 Case against the Peasant Ekaterina Ivanova for Dabbling in Witchcraft -- 4.10. An Epidemic of Demonic Possession in a Urals Foundry Town (1839-40) -- 4.11. The 1853 Case against the Serf Gerasim Fedotov for Witchcraft -- 4.12. The Mob Murder of Agrafena Dmitrievna Chindiaikina, a Suspected Witch (1880) -- 4.13. A Woman Accused of Sorcery Has Her Day in Court (Early 1900s) -- Part II. Magical Practices, Everyday Matters, and the Power of Words: Trial Excerpts -- 5. Healing and Harming -- 5.1. Consultation with the Doctors of the Apothecary Chancellery (1628) -- 5.2. A Case of Enchanted Brew (1653) -- 5.3. Healing or Cursing? Mysterious Ingredients Raise Suspicion (1658) -- 5.4. The Bewitchment of Priest David and His Family by Their Domestic Workers (1676) -- 5.5. Witchcraft Suspected as the Cause of a Child's Death (PLC, 1732) -- 5.6. A Case of Milk Magic: Borrowed Pots and Bewitched Cows (PLC, 1728-31) -- 5.7. An Alleged Murder by Way of Witchcraft (1844-45).
5.8. No Place Is Safe from This Witch: The Case against Agafia Polikarpova (1848-49) -- 6. Sex/Love/Anti-Love Magic -- 6.1. A Case of Peasant Women's Love Magic and Vengeance, Shatsk (1647) -- 6.2. Bewitchment at Weddings (1648) -- 6.3. Iatsykha Polyveichykha Seeks to Bewitch her Husband's Lover (Hetmanate, 1675) -- 6.4. A Case of Rape and Spells to Inflame Desire (Semen Aigustov, Borovsk, 1689) -- 6.5. A Wife Suspected of Witchcraft: The Case of Anna Grekowiczewa (PLC, 1717) -- 6.6. Seeking a Witch or Sorcerer to Kill a Husband? (PLC, 1742) -- 7. Power Relations and Hierarchy -- 7.1. "Making My Master and All Women Bend to My Will": A Case of Subversive Spells (1648) -- 7.2. The Serf Woman Onuitka Avenges Ill-Treatment by the Estate Bailiff (1658) -- 7.3. The Servant Motruna Perysta Accused of Bewitching Her Master's Family (PLC, 1730) -- 7.4. How to Make All Authorities Subservient: The Magical Notebooks of Defrocked Priest Petr Osipov (1732) -- 7.5. A Matter of a Love Potion and Sexual Pursuit of a Menial by His Mistress, Lady Ruszkowska (PLC, 1749) -- 7.6. "So His Master Would Treat Him Well": The Peasant Grigorii Shilin's Ritual Use of Roots and Wax (1762) -- 7.7. Securing Patronage: A Spell in the Hand of Ivan Sokolov, A Highly Ranked Officer and Nobleman (1774) -- 7.8. Controlling a Master's Will: Divination and Enchanted Wax (1840) -- 8. Possession -- 8.1. Bewitchment at a Communal Banquet: The Petition of Ivan Shenin (1611) -- 8.2. Testimony of the Bewitched from the Possession Outbreak in Lukh (1656-58) -- 8.3. A Healer Accused of Dabbling in Witchcraft and Exorcising Demons (PLC, 1710) -- 8.4. An Epidemic of Shrieking and Writhing in a Village Destabilized by Manumission (1833) -- 8.5. Fits of Hiccuping (1833) -- 9. Satanic Pacts/Diabolism -- 9.1. "I Swear Allegiance to Satan": A Satanic Pact in the Seventeenth Century (1663-64).
9.2. "My Father Satan": Spells, Possession, and Fraternal Rivalry (1672) -- 9.3. A Case of Satanic Love Magic (Avdotia Borisova, 1733) -- 9.4. A Pact with the Dark-Visaged Master of the Hellish Abyss and His Servant Demons (Hetmanate, 1749) -- 9.5. The Priest Makarii Ivanov and Others Are Charged in 1753 with Possessing Booklets about Sorcery: A Demonic Incantation for Lust -- 9.6. God-renouncing Letters (1751): Perdun -- 9.7. Case of the Soldier Semen Popov, Who Renounced God and Gave His Soul to the Devil (1759) -- 10. Orality/Literacy -- 10.1. Case of the Siberian Trapper Found Carrying Spells (1652) -- 10.2. A Theological Defense of Herbal Healing: Petition of Ivan Ivanov, Priest of the Church of the Nativity in Komersk District, to Simon, Archbishop of Vologda and Belozersk (1679-80) -- 10.3. A Hegumen's Possession of Magical and Fortune-telling Texts (1720) -- 10.4. Transcription of an Offensive Note by a Noble Architectural Journeyman, Aleksei Petrovich Evlashev (1731) -- 10.5. An Incriminating Notebook of Incantations and Spells (1734-37) -- 11. Specialists in Magic -- 11.1. Specialists in Plants and Roots: Poisoning and Healing in Consultation with a Professional Herbalist (1692) -- 11.2. Spoiling a Harvest by Means of Witchcraft: Knotted Grain Stalks- a Reluctant Specialist (Hetmanate, 1765) -- 11.3. Case against a Fourteen-Year-Old Boy for Fraudulent Divination (Russian Ukraine, 1839) -- Notes -- Index.
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Witchcraft in Russia and Ukraine, 1000-1900 -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Timeline -- Acknowledgments -- List of Abbreviations -- Note on Translation and Transliteration -- Introduction -- Part I. Historical Evolution, Law, and Prosecution -- 1. Early Accounts of Witchcraft, Sorcery, and Magic in Medieval Rus -- 1.1. Pagan Soothsayers and Magicians in the Primary Chronicle -- 1.2. "Maybe, but God Knows": Sorcery in the Novgorodian Chronicle (1227) -- 1.3. Bishop Serapion of Vladimir Condemns Belief in Witchcraft (1274) -- 1.4. St. Alimpii and the Leper Who Consulted Magicians (Kyivan Patericon) -- 2. Witchcraft and Politics in Muscovy and the Hetmanate -- 2.1. The Death of Maria of Tver, Ivan III's First Wife, by Witchcraft (1467) -- 2.2. Witchcraft Accusations against Grand Princess Sofia Paleologue (1497) -- 2.3. Witchcraft Accusations against Grand Princess Solomonia Saburova (1525) -- 2.4. Trials of Maksim the Greek for Treason, Heresy, and Sorcery (1525 &amp -- 1531) -- 2.5. The Great Moscow Fire and the Sprinkling of Human Hearts by the Tsar's Grandmother, Anna Glinskaia (1547) -- 2.6. Ivan Peresvetov's 1549 Tale about Sorcery at Court in the Final Days of the Byzantine Empire (Excerpts from the "Greater Petition") -- 2.7. Jerome Horsey on Witchcraft at the Court of Ivan IV (the Terrible) -- 2.8. The Vicious Sorcerer Eleazar Bomelius Described in a Russian Chronicle -- 2.9. Sorcery Allegations from Ivan the Terrible's Correspondence with Prince Kurbskii and Kurbskii's History of the Grand Prince of Moscow -- 2.10. Loyalty Oaths -- 2.11. Grigorii Kotoshikhin and Samuel Collins on the Alleged Poisoning or Bewitchment of Tsar Aleksei Mikhailovich's First Betrothed, and on Bewitchment at Weddings (1647) -- 2.12. Hetman Ivan Briukhovetskii's Burning of Witches (1666) -- 2.13. Political Sorcery against the Prussian King (1760).

3. Laws and Guidelines concerning the Prosecution of Witchcraft, Late Twelfth Century to 1885 -- 3.1. Byzantine Church Law and Its Echoes in Russia -- Kormchaia kniga (1653) -- Excerpt from a court case from the late 1660s containing a fragment of the Kormchaia -- Church Statute of Iaroslav the Wise (late twelfth/early thirteenth century) -- Russian Orthodox penitential listings involving sorcery and magic (fourteenth-early nineteenth centuries) -- The Domostroi: A household handbook of the mid-sixteenth century -- 3.2. Excerpts from Charles V's 1532 Constitutio Criminalis Carolina and the 1559 Polish Version -- 3.3. Procedures for the Courts and Affairs of Towns under Magdeburg Law under the Polish Crown (1559) -- 3.4. Questions and Answers from the Moscow Church Council (Stoglav) of 1551 -- 3.5. Ivan IV's 1552 Law on Witchcraft -- 3.6. 1589 Law on the Honor of Witches -- 3.7. 1648 Decree against Devilish Conduct -- 3.8. Sobornoe ulozhenie: The Conciliar Law Code of 1649 -- 3.9. Aleksei Mikhailovich's Decree Prohibiting Witchcraft and Activities Repellent to God (1653) -- 3.10. "Newly Established Articles on Robbery, Brigandage, and Murder and Related Decree" (1669) -- 3.11. Grigorii Kotoshikhin on Muscovite Judicial Process, Torture, and Execution (1660s) -- 3.12. Peter I's 1715 Decree against Shriekers (the Demonically Possessed) -- 3.13. Peter I's 1716 Military Statute and Suggested Revisions to Its Religious Articles (1725) -- 3.14. Excerpts from the Spiritual Regulation (1721) -- 3.15. Holy Synod's Decree against the Swimming of Individuals (1721) -- 3.16. Empress Anna Ioannovna's Decree against Wizardry (1731) -- 3.17. Catherine II's 1767 Instructions to the Legislative Commission and the Holy Synod's Response -- 3.18. Senate's Ruling Admonishing Judges (1770) -- 3.19. Catherine II's Decrees (1775 and 1782).

3.20. Excerpts from the Criminal Laws: 1842, 1845, and 1885 editions -- 4. Witchcraft Trials' Processes and Extralegal Prosecution of Witchcraft: Complete Records -- A. Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (PLC) and The Hetmanate -- 4.1. Andrei Kurbskii's Sorcery Allegations against His Wife, Maria Iurevna Golshanskaia, in Divorce Proceedings (1578) -- 4.2. False Accusation of Witchcraft against Siemionowa Pauciutina, a Cossack Woman (1634) -- 4.3. Swimming of Witches in Podillia (1711) -- 4.4. Witchcraft and Infanticide (1753) -- B. Muscovy and Imperial Russia -- 4.5. The Trial of the Old Peasant Woman Baba Daritsa and Others (1647) -- 4.6. A Case of Suspicious Roots: Rogataia Baba and the Use of Torture (1647-48) -- 4.7. A Mass Outbreak of Possession in the Town of Lukh (1656-60) -- 4.8. The 1758 Trial of Chamberlain Petr Vasilevich Saltykov -- 4.9. The 1764-65 Case against the Peasant Ekaterina Ivanova for Dabbling in Witchcraft -- 4.10. An Epidemic of Demonic Possession in a Urals Foundry Town (1839-40) -- 4.11. The 1853 Case against the Serf Gerasim Fedotov for Witchcraft -- 4.12. The Mob Murder of Agrafena Dmitrievna Chindiaikina, a Suspected Witch (1880) -- 4.13. A Woman Accused of Sorcery Has Her Day in Court (Early 1900s) -- Part II. Magical Practices, Everyday Matters, and the Power of Words: Trial Excerpts -- 5. Healing and Harming -- 5.1. Consultation with the Doctors of the Apothecary Chancellery (1628) -- 5.2. A Case of Enchanted Brew (1653) -- 5.3. Healing or Cursing? Mysterious Ingredients Raise Suspicion (1658) -- 5.4. The Bewitchment of Priest David and His Family by Their Domestic Workers (1676) -- 5.5. Witchcraft Suspected as the Cause of a Child's Death (PLC, 1732) -- 5.6. A Case of Milk Magic: Borrowed Pots and Bewitched Cows (PLC, 1728-31) -- 5.7. An Alleged Murder by Way of Witchcraft (1844-45).

5.8. No Place Is Safe from This Witch: The Case against Agafia Polikarpova (1848-49) -- 6. Sex/Love/Anti-Love Magic -- 6.1. A Case of Peasant Women's Love Magic and Vengeance, Shatsk (1647) -- 6.2. Bewitchment at Weddings (1648) -- 6.3. Iatsykha Polyveichykha Seeks to Bewitch her Husband's Lover (Hetmanate, 1675) -- 6.4. A Case of Rape and Spells to Inflame Desire (Semen Aigustov, Borovsk, 1689) -- 6.5. A Wife Suspected of Witchcraft: The Case of Anna Grekowiczewa (PLC, 1717) -- 6.6. Seeking a Witch or Sorcerer to Kill a Husband? (PLC, 1742) -- 7. Power Relations and Hierarchy -- 7.1. "Making My Master and All Women Bend to My Will": A Case of Subversive Spells (1648) -- 7.2. The Serf Woman Onuitka Avenges Ill-Treatment by the Estate Bailiff (1658) -- 7.3. The Servant Motruna Perysta Accused of Bewitching Her Master's Family (PLC, 1730) -- 7.4. How to Make All Authorities Subservient: The Magical Notebooks of Defrocked Priest Petr Osipov (1732) -- 7.5. A Matter of a Love Potion and Sexual Pursuit of a Menial by His Mistress, Lady Ruszkowska (PLC, 1749) -- 7.6. "So His Master Would Treat Him Well": The Peasant Grigorii Shilin's Ritual Use of Roots and Wax (1762) -- 7.7. Securing Patronage: A Spell in the Hand of Ivan Sokolov, A Highly Ranked Officer and Nobleman (1774) -- 7.8. Controlling a Master's Will: Divination and Enchanted Wax (1840) -- 8. Possession -- 8.1. Bewitchment at a Communal Banquet: The Petition of Ivan Shenin (1611) -- 8.2. Testimony of the Bewitched from the Possession Outbreak in Lukh (1656-58) -- 8.3. A Healer Accused of Dabbling in Witchcraft and Exorcising Demons (PLC, 1710) -- 8.4. An Epidemic of Shrieking and Writhing in a Village Destabilized by Manumission (1833) -- 8.5. Fits of Hiccuping (1833) -- 9. Satanic Pacts/Diabolism -- 9.1. "I Swear Allegiance to Satan": A Satanic Pact in the Seventeenth Century (1663-64).

9.2. "My Father Satan": Spells, Possession, and Fraternal Rivalry (1672) -- 9.3. A Case of Satanic Love Magic (Avdotia Borisova, 1733) -- 9.4. A Pact with the Dark-Visaged Master of the Hellish Abyss and His Servant Demons (Hetmanate, 1749) -- 9.5. The Priest Makarii Ivanov and Others Are Charged in 1753 with Possessing Booklets about Sorcery: A Demonic Incantation for Lust -- 9.6. God-renouncing Letters (1751): Perdun -- 9.7. Case of the Soldier Semen Popov, Who Renounced God and Gave His Soul to the Devil (1759) -- 10. Orality/Literacy -- 10.1. Case of the Siberian Trapper Found Carrying Spells (1652) -- 10.2. A Theological Defense of Herbal Healing: Petition of Ivan Ivanov, Priest of the Church of the Nativity in Komersk District, to Simon, Archbishop of Vologda and Belozersk (1679-80) -- 10.3. A Hegumen's Possession of Magical and Fortune-telling Texts (1720) -- 10.4. Transcription of an Offensive Note by a Noble Architectural Journeyman, Aleksei Petrovich Evlashev (1731) -- 10.5. An Incriminating Notebook of Incantations and Spells (1734-37) -- 11. Specialists in Magic -- 11.1. Specialists in Plants and Roots: Poisoning and Healing in Consultation with a Professional Herbalist (1692) -- 11.2. Spoiling a Harvest by Means of Witchcraft: Knotted Grain Stalks- a Reluctant Specialist (Hetmanate, 1765) -- 11.3. Case against a Fourteen-Year-Old Boy for Fraudulent Divination (Russian Ukraine, 1839) -- Notes -- Index.

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