Possessed: Women, Witches, and Demons in Imperial Russia.by Worobec<|

Possessed\nby Christine D. Worobec\nHardback\nEnglish\n\nBrand new copy from BookCurl \u2013 the UK independent online bookseller.\n\n------------------------------\nBook details\n------------------------------\nAuthor: Christine D. Worobec\nTitle: Possessed\nFormat: Hardback\nLanguage: English\nTopic: Gender studies: women and girls\nPublisher: Northern Illinois University Press\nPublication year: 2001\nISBN-13: 9780875802732\nISBN-10: 0875802737\nRRP: \u00A333.00\n\n------------------------------\nDescription\n------------------------------\nThis work examines the phenomenon of demon possession in rural Russia. Drawing from a range of sources - religious, psychiatric, ethnographic and literary - Worobec looks at \""klikushestuo\"" over a broad span of time but focuses mainly on the 19th and early-20th centuries.\n\nThis work examines the phenomenon of demon possession in rural Russia. Drawing from a range of sources - religious, psychiatric, ethnographic and literary - Worobec looks .