Shaman of Oberstdorf

Chonrad Stoeckhlin and the Phantoms of the Night

By:

Wolfgang Behringer

Format:

Paperback / softback

Series:

Studies in Early Modern German History

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This is the story of a 16th-century mountain village caught in a panic of its own making. Four hundred years ago, the Bavarian alpine town of Oberstdorf, surrounded by the towering peaks of the Vorarlberg, was awash in legends and rumours of prophets and healers, of spirits and spectres, of witches and soothsayers. The book focuses on the life of a horse wrangler named Chonrad Stoeckhlin (1549-1587), whose extraordinary visions of the afterlife and enthusiastic practice of the occult eventually led to his death - and to the death of a number of village women - for crimes of witchcraft. In addition to recounting Stoeckhlin's tale, this book examines the larger world of alpine myths concerning ghosts and other spirits of the night, documenting how these myths have been abused by German political movements over the years.

Author Biography:

Wolfgang Behringer teaches at the University of Munich and the University of Bonn and is the author of numerous books on German history and witchcraft. H.C. Erik Midelfort is Julian Bishko Professor of History at the University of Virginia and the author of Mad Princes of Renaissance Germany [Virginia].

Release date Australia

June 30th, 2000

Author

Wolfgang Behringer

Audiences

Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Professional & Vocational
Undergraduate

Contributor

Translated by H.C.Erik Midelfort

Illustrations

maps

Pages

224

Series

Studies in Early Modern German History

Dimensions

152x229x15

ISBN-13

9780813918532

Product ID

3038233

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