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<p>In early modern Germany, soothsayers known as wise women and men roamed the countryside. Fixtures of village life, they identified thieves and witches, read palms, and cast horoscopes. German villagers regularly consulted these fortune-tellers and practiced divination in their everyday lives. Jason Phillip Coy brings their enchanted world to life by examining theological discourse alongside archival records of prosecution for popular divination in Thuringia, a diverse region in central German
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- Author
- Jason Philip Coy
- Publisher
- University of Virginia Press
- Published
- 2020
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780813944074
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- History, Body Mind & Spirit, Philosophy
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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