Possessed: Women, Witches, and Demons in Imperial Russia

by Christine D. Worobec

Release Date: March, 2001

Edition: Hardcover

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About the so-called "shriekers"

Bewitching history of Russian peasant women thought to be possessed by demons. Contributing to the drama--the Russian Orthodox Church, bias against women, politics, poverty, and ignorance. Of great interest.

Demons in Russia

Possessed is the first book to examine the phenomenon of demon possession in Russia. Drawing upon a wide range of sources--religious, psychiatric, ethnographic, and literary--Worobec looks at klikushestvo over a broad span of time but focuses mainly on the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, when all of Russian society felt the pressure of modernization.