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A collection of Arthurian texts, images, interviews, and basic information

Dossier a cura della BNF

This Web site has been compiled by Professor Ashliman, emeritus Professor of the University of Pittsburgh. He has collected and translated ten short legends about witchcraft, which illustrate varying conceptualisations of the figure of the witch in German, English, Scottish and Irish mythology. The origins of the tales are provided and these short tales are excellent for discerning the functionality of the application of the figure of the witch to a particular narrative. The topos of the witch is used in a variety of discourses illustrated here. There are a few images and these accounts are excellent for illustrating the varying typology of legend themes.