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Specialists in Magic 魔法专家
Pub Date : 2020-11-15 DOI: 10.7591/cornell/9781501750649.003.0012
This chapter highlights three witchcraft trials in which the sources offer compelling evidence that the accused parties actually practiced some kind of magical work: healing and cursing; protecting crops by untying knots in grain; and identifying criminals through divination. These three instances of magical practitioners at work come from the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries, respectively: two are from the Ukrainian region, and one is from the Russian North. They were heard in a range of secular and religious courts and by representatives of local and central administrations. Across the three, similar issues surface. The authorities and the accused in their statements expressed concern about whether or not the practitioners accepted payment for the work and about how they learned or received their skills. In each case, there remains little question that the accused did practice some form of magic and did so with enough frequency and publicity to qualify as “professionals” (in a loose sense of the word), whether or not they identified themselves as witches. Whether they deserved the torture and harsh punishments they often received, at least into the mid-eighteenth century, is, of course, a very different kind of question.
本章重点介绍了三起巫术审判,在这些审判中,资料来源提供了令人信服的证据,证明被告实际上使用了某种魔法:治疗和诅咒;通过解开谷物上的结来保护作物;通过占卜来识别罪犯。这三个例子分别来自十七世纪、十八世纪和十九世纪:两个来自乌克兰地区,一个来自俄罗斯北部。各种世俗和宗教法庭以及地方和中央行政机关的代表都听取了他们的意见。在这三个国家,类似的问题浮出水面。当局和被告在他们的陈述中对从业人员是否接受报酬以及他们如何学习或获得技能表示关切。在每一个案例中,毋庸置疑的是,被告确实练习了某种形式的魔法,而且这样做的频率和宣传都足够高,足以使他们有资格成为“专业人士”(这个词的宽泛意义),无论他们是否认为自己是女巫。至少在18世纪中期,他们是否应该受到酷刑和严厉的惩罚,当然是另一个问题了。
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Orality/Literacy 口语/文学
Pub Date : 2020-11-15 DOI: 10.7591/cornell/9781501750649.003.0011
This chapter studies magical texts. Written texts could cross the literate divide, but even so, charges of possessing magical writing were brought almost exclusively against men. Women do not seem to have participated in the written economy of witchcraft. They did, of course, join in an oral exchange in which men and women avidly contributed. Magical knowledge circulated in a variety of ways: as advice passed down the generations from parents or grandparents; as oral tradition learned from people adept in the art of healing, cursing, or prognostication; or, sometimes, through trial and error. Many of the men who were caught with written spells explained that they had copied them down from the oral dictation of a knowledgeable adept or sorcerer they met on the road. Court scribes also operated at the interface between orality and literacy when they reported the words of spells recited by illiterate witnesses. The chapter then focuses on the modes of literacy and orality that permitted and documented the animated exchange of magical expertise.
本章研究魔法文本。书面文本可以跨越文化的鸿沟,但即便如此,拥有神奇文字的指控几乎完全是针对男性的。女性似乎并没有参与巫术的书面经济。当然,他们确实参加了一场男女热烈参与的口头交流。魔法知识以各种方式流传:作为父母或祖父母代代相传的建议;从擅长治疗、诅咒或预言的人那里学来的口述传统;或者,有时,通过尝试和错误。许多被抓到有书面咒语的人解释说,他们是从路上遇到的知识渊博的内行或巫师的口述中抄下来的。宫廷文士在报告由不识字的证人背诵的咒语时,也在口头和识字的交界处工作。这一章的重点是文字和口头的模式,允许并记录了魔法专业知识的生动交流。
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Witchcraft and Politics in Muscovy and the Hetmanate 莫斯科公国和酋长国的巫术与政治
Pub Date : 2020-11-15 DOI: 10.7591/cornell/9781501750649.003.0003
This chapter analyzes witchcraft and politics in Muscovy and the Hetmanate. Politics at the early modern Russian (or Muscovite) court was very much focused on personal connections of kinship, marriage, and patronage, so the choice of brides for the rulers was of utmost political importance. Witchcraft, or rumors of witchcraft, frequently arose in connection with royal marriages. Witchcraft charges also arose when competition among rival factions at court grew particularly fierce, as during the minorities of rulers, when members of the inner circle jockeyed for position, or when a ruler was selecting his royal bride. While it is true that in many instances witchcraft charges were combined with suspicions of high treason or lese majesty — that is, attacks on the ruler, his family, or his dignity — far from all Russian witchcraft trials or anxieties can be described as “political” in any conventional sense of the word. Instead of stressing the political essence of witchcraft, one could emphasize the personal, familial, or even emotional aspects of political life that emerge from the language and sites of anxiety evident in these texts. Witchcraft thus provides a lens through which to rethink the very nature of politics.
本章分析了莫斯科公国和酋长国的巫术和政治。早期现代俄罗斯(或莫斯科)宫廷的政治非常注重亲属关系、婚姻和庇护等个人关系,因此统治者选择新娘在政治上是最重要的。巫术或有关巫术的谣言经常与皇室婚姻有关。当朝廷中敌对派系之间的竞争变得特别激烈时,巫术指控也会出现,比如在统治者占少数的时期,当核心圈子的成员为了地位而耍花招时,或者当统治者选择他的皇室新娘时。虽然在许多情况下,巫术指控确实伴随着叛国罪或亵渎君主的嫌疑——即攻击统治者、他的家人或他的尊严——但从任何传统意义上讲,俄罗斯的巫术审判或焦虑远不能被描述为“政治”。与其强调巫术的政治本质,不如强调政治生活中个人的,家庭的,甚至是情感的方面,这些方面来自这些文本中明显的焦虑的语言和场所。因此,巫术提供了一个重新思考政治本质的镜头。
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Laws and Guidelines concerning the Prosecution of Witchcraft, Late Twelfth Century to 1885 12世纪晚期至1885年有关巫术起诉的法律和准则
Pub Date : 2020-11-15 DOI: 10.7591/cornell/9781501750649.003.0004
This chapter examines the legislative foundations of witchcraft trials. In early modern legal systems that were cobbled together as boundaries shifted, empires expanded and incorporated new populations, and overlapping jurisdictions bumped up against each other, it could be unclear which authority should hear a case or what legal statute should pertain. In the particular instance of witchcraft, the range of jurisdictions was particularly broad, since it was one of the rare crimes that could fall under either secular or spiritual authorities. Even when jurisdictions were sorted out and the relevant legal statutes were clear, in some venues the authorities might find ways to avoid prescribed legal norms. This disregard for the letter of the law, particularly in sentencing, appears to be a factor in the relatively small number of trials and low execution rate of accused witches in the Ukrainian regions under both Polish-Lithuanian and Russian rule. It is with the legal history of this region, the eastern Ukrainian territories of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, that the chapter begins, before turning to Muscovite Russia, and finally, the Russian Empire in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
本章考察巫术审判的立法基础。在早期的现代法律体系中,随着边界的变化、帝国的扩张和吸纳新的人口、重叠的司法管辖区相互碰撞,拼凑在一起,可能不清楚哪个当局应该审理一个案件,或者哪个法律法规应该适用。在巫术这一特殊案件中,管辖范围特别广泛,因为它是一种罕见的罪行,既可以属于世俗当局,也可以属于精神当局。即使管辖权已得到整理,有关的法律法规也已明确,但在某些场合,当局可能会设法避免规定的法律规范。这种对法律条文的无视,特别是在量刑方面,似乎是波兰立陶宛和俄罗斯统治下乌克兰地区对被控女巫的审判数量相对较少和执行率较低的一个因素。这一章从这个地区,波兰立陶宛联邦的东乌克兰领土的法律历史开始,然后转向莫斯科俄罗斯,最后是十八世纪和十九世纪的俄罗斯帝国。
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Witchcraft Trials’ Processes and Extralegal Prosecution of Witchcraft 巫术审判过程与巫术法外起诉
Pub Date : 2020-11-15 DOI: 10.7591/cornell/9781501750649.003.0005
This chapter investigates witchcraft trials' processes and extralegal prosecution of witchcraft in Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and the Hetmanate, as well as in Muscovy and imperial Russia. Accusations of witchcraft in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth came from private citizens, not from state representatives; in other words, they flowed into courts from society, rather than being part of a top-down witch hunt. Suspected witches in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth could be prosecuted and sent to the torture chamber in order to elicit a confession. While municipal courts in the autonomous Hetmanate continued to apply Magdeburg Law and other Polish-Lithuanian statutes, they also sometimes referred to Russian decrees. In the witchcraft trials, Muscovite judges asked a prescribed set of questions that dwelled on the issues of physical harm and betrayed concern for preventing the spread of magical criminality. Under Catherine II, the court system underwent a major overhaul, as did the approach to the prosecution of witchcraft.
本章调查了波兰立陶宛联邦和酋长国以及莫斯科公国和俄罗斯帝国的巫术审判过程和法外起诉。在波兰立陶宛联邦,对巫术的指控来自普通公民,而不是国家代表;换句话说,他们是从社会上流入法院的,而不是自上而下的政治迫害的一部分。波兰立陶宛联邦的女巫嫌疑人可能会被起诉,并被送往刑讯室,以逼供。虽然自治酋长国的市法院继续适用马格德堡法和其他波兰立陶宛法规,但它们有时也引用俄罗斯法令。在巫术审判中,莫斯科法官提出了一套规定的问题,这些问题集中在身体伤害的问题上,并暴露了他们对防止魔法犯罪传播的关注。在叶卡捷琳娜二世的统治下,法院系统经历了一次重大改革,对巫术的起诉方式也是如此。
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Satanic Pacts/Diabolism 邪恶的协议/魔法
Pub Date : 2020-11-15 DOI: 10.7591/cornell/9781501750649.003.0010
This chapter explores the satanic pact, the voluntary decision to sell one's soul to the devil, which emerged as an important plank in European witch lore in the early modern period. The trope of the satanic pact dates back to the early Middle Ages, and was generally associated with some kind of tit-for-tat: a sinful human would exchange his soul — and in the earliest versions it is usually a man entering such a deal — for money, career advancement, knowledge, power, or sexual favors. The idea of a satanic pact provided early modern demonologists with the causal mechanism they wanted. Fueled by invidious notions about female bodies and minds, demonologists adumbrated ideas about how women were driven by envy, greed, and insatiable lust to turn to demons to satisfy their desires. Legends of male pacts with the devil circulated in Byzantium as well as in the medieval West, and some of these stories crossed over into the Slavic Orthodox world, but they never rose to the fore in trials of witches in Russia as they did in the West. Building on this observation, subsequent scholarship has confirmed that this finding held true both in the Russian and in the Ukrainian lands and continued through the eighteenth century.
这一章探讨了撒旦契约,即自愿将自己的灵魂卖给魔鬼的决定,这是近代早期欧洲女巫爱情的一个重要支柱。撒旦契约的比喻可以追溯到中世纪早期,通常与某种针锋相对的交易联系在一起:一个有罪的人会交换他的灵魂——在最早的版本中,通常是一个男人进入这样的交易——以换取金钱、职业发展、知识、权力或性利益。撒旦契约的概念为早期现代恶魔学家提供了他们想要的因果机制。在关于女性身体和思想的令人反感的观念的推动下,恶魔学家预示着女性是如何被嫉妒、贪婪和无法满足的欲望驱使而转向恶魔来满足她们的欲望的。关于男性与魔鬼结盟的传说在拜占庭和中世纪的西方流传,其中一些故事传到了斯拉夫东正教世界,但它们从未像在西方那样在俄罗斯女巫审判中脱颖而出。在这一观察的基础上,随后的学术研究证实,这一发现在俄罗斯和乌克兰的土地上都是正确的,并一直持续到18世纪。
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Power Relations and Hierarchy 权力关系与等级制度
Pub Date : 2020-11-15 DOI: 10.7591/cornell/9781501750649.003.0008
This chapter assesses “social magic,” or magic for expressing and for attempting to assuage social tensions. Antagonisms between the lower orders and masters provide the presumptive background for the numerous trials involving the bewitchment of landowners in order to attain their “love.” Spells of this nature represented far more than an effort to curry favor with superiors; for the powerless, they offered the only, desperate shred of hope for staying the hand of a wrathful landlord or cruel officer. The need to carry such spells was obvious to all and was left unstated, underscoring the precarious nature of life for those on the receiving end of hierarchical inequality. Within the genre of “spells to power,” effects were generally invoked either through the affective language of love and kindness, attesting to the highly personalized exercise of power, or, more directly, through inverted tropes of subservience. Ultimately, these intimate dramas reveal the horrors of serfdom in general and of social and sexual exploitation in particular.
这一章评估了“社会魔法”,或者是表达和试图缓和社会紧张关系的魔法。下层阶级和上层阶级之间的对立为众多涉及对地主施魔法以获得他们的“爱”的审判提供了假定的背景。这种性质的咒语不仅仅是为了讨好上级;对于无能为力的人来说,他们提供了唯一的,绝望的希望来阻止愤怒的地主或残酷的军官的手。对所有人来说,携带这种咒语的必要性是显而易见的,但却没有明说,这突显了那些处于等级不平等接受者的生活的不稳定本质。在“权力的咒语”类型中,效果通常是通过爱和善良的情感语言来调用的,证明了高度个性化的权力行使,或者更直接地说,通过倒转的屈从修辞。最终,这些亲密的戏剧揭示了农奴制的恐怖,特别是社会和性剥削。
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Early Accounts of Witchcraft, Sorcery, and Magic in Medieval Rus 中世纪罗斯巫术、巫术和魔法的早期记载
Pub Date : 2020-11-15 DOI: 10.7591/cornell/9781501750649.003.0002
This chapter discusses early accounts of witchcraft, sorcery, and magic in medieval Rus. “Rus” is the name given to the lands of the Eastern Slavs in the medieval accounts of the region that now comprises Ukraine, Belarus, and European Russia. Conventionally, the narrative history of Rus begins in the eighth or ninth century, when diverse Slavic, Baltic, Finnic, Turkic, and Scandinavian people settled the region. Along with some Arabic accounts, Scandinavian runic inscriptions, occasional mentions in European documents, and a few Byzantine Greek records, the main textual sources on Rus are historical chronicles written by Rus churchmen beginning in the late eleventh century. The excerpts in the chapter may narrate actual historical events, or they may reveal more about how their authors thought about their history and their present. In either case, they are good stories, and they show how these medieval authors thought about magic and sorcery, and about how those practices interacted with other issues of concern: with the paganism that remained active long after the formal conversion of Rus; with teachings about the devil and his wiles; and with ideas about men and women and their respective characteristics and proclivities toward sorcery.
这一章讨论了中世纪罗斯早期关于巫术、巫术和魔法的记载。“罗斯”是中世纪对东斯拉夫人土地的称呼,该地区现在包括乌克兰、白俄罗斯和俄罗斯欧洲部分。传统上,罗斯的叙事历史始于8世纪或9世纪,当时不同的斯拉夫人、波罗的海人、芬兰人、突厥人和斯堪的纳维亚人在该地区定居。除了一些阿拉伯语的记载,斯堪的纳维亚的符文铭文,偶尔在欧洲文献中提到,以及一些拜占庭希腊记录,关于罗斯的主要文本来源是始于11世纪后期的罗斯教会人员所写的历史编年史。章节中的节选可能讲述真实的历史事件,也可能更多地揭示作者对他们的历史和现在的看法。无论哪种情况,它们都是很好的故事,它们展示了这些中世纪作者是如何看待魔法和巫术的,以及这些实践是如何与其他问题相互作用的:与罗斯正式皈依后很长一段时间内仍然活跃的异教;教导魔鬼和他的诡计;以及对男人和女人的看法以及他们各自的特点和对巫术的倾向。
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Sex/Love/Anti-Love Magic 性/爱/ Anti-Love魔法
Pub Date : 2020-11-15 DOI: 10.7591/cornell/9781501750649.003.0007
This chapter focuses on the use of love spells. In the annals of Russian magic, interference in the mysterious workings of attraction more commonly took on far darker and more sinister tones. Passion and attraction had little role in the way spousal relationships were imagined and were greeted with even less sympathy outside of marriage. Any use of “love magic” threatened to upend the carefully crafted social order. When used to seduce a married woman into adultery or an unmarried girl into fornication, spells clearly violated the bonds of holy matrimony and of sanctified sexual unions, and such magic was understood as coercive, even abusive. Even within marriages, when an unhappy wife turned to love charms to calm her husband's violent temper and to “make him love me” — that is, to stop beating her and abusing her — her efforts were viewed as subverting the proper patriarchal hierarchy. In the sampling of cases chosen for the chapter, sex rather than love seems to be the primary issue, although the particular cruelty of the “spells for women” shows that emotional as well as physical subjugation was often the goal of magical incantation. Like most spells, the formulas used in love spells were generic, useful for any occasion.
这一章的重点是爱情咒语的使用。在俄罗斯魔法的编年史上,对神秘的吸引力作用的干涉通常带有更黑暗、更险恶的色彩。激情和吸引力在人们想象的夫妻关系中几乎没有作用,在婚姻之外得到的同情甚至更少。任何“爱情魔法”的使用都有可能颠覆精心打造的社会秩序。当咒语被用来引诱已婚妇女通奸或未婚女孩通奸时,咒语显然违反了神圣婚姻和神圣的性结合的纽带,这种魔法被认为是强制性的,甚至是虐待性的。甚至在婚姻中,当一个不快乐的妻子求助于爱情护身符来平息丈夫的暴脾气,“让他爱我”——也就是说,停止打她和虐待她——她的努力被视为颠覆了正统的父权等级制度。在本章选取的案例样本中,性而不是爱似乎是主要问题,尽管“女性咒语”的特别残忍表明,情感和身体的征服往往是魔法咒语的目标。像大多数咒语一样,爱情咒语中的公式是通用的,适用于任何场合。
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