Course Description

49-313 Folk-Belief, Popular Culture and the Witch Hunt S(3-0)

The course will survey the social, political and intellectual influences upon the leisure activities of Europeans and Americans in the period with special reference to ballads, folk songs, games, street theatre and the carnival. Witchcraft and the witchhunt will be discussed as well as such topics as divination and second sight.

Prerequisites: 49-101.

1996-97 Undergraduate Calendar

Last revised: August 28, 1996. Contact: ccrenna@registrar.uoguelph.ca.