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From: "Hannah Gilbert" <[log in to unmask]>
> I'm
> very interested in different conceptions of spirit worlds, and the
> relationship between the living and the dead, and how, perhaps, magic is
> involved in such relations, and what kind of properties the dead are
> thought to have, e.g. whether they are benevolent or malevolent in such
> relations (ah, that's not very well worded!). Would be very interested to
> hear from anyone who could reocmmend good references or has looked at this
> subject in their research.
I have briefly touched upon this subject of benevolent and malevolent Dead
in my "The Human Body in Southern Slavic Folk Sorcery" in JSM 2, in relation
to human sexuality. If you want to look further into Slavic folklore
concerning that, you may want to look for lore about vampires, werewolves,
"avet", "prikaza", "nekrstenci", etc., and the ways people protected
themselves from them.
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