When Evil Met Magic

Introduction
Part 1: Knowing Evil
The Study of Evil: A Deep Map
William Andrew Myers

Unsettling Banality: The Unheimlichkeit of Evil
Rosa Slegers

Against Compassion: Understanding Institutional Perfidy as Evil
Wendy Austin

Magic and the Power of the Condemned: English Public Execution and Popular Superstition from 1735 to 1868
Stephen Banks

Part 2: Evil Fictions and Magical Visions,
Fictions and Illusions, Acquiring Magical Power: Magicians, Witches, Vanishing Women and Demons
George L. Hersh

Faerie Communion: Magical Cure in J. R. R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings Trilogy
Merve Sarı
Cinema and the Magical Erasure of the Woman: ‘How do you make a Woman Disappear?’
Viv Chadder

‘A symbol of our times, neither light nor day, neither dark nor light’: Sympathy for the Demon in Russian Literature and Art
Natalia Kaloh Vid

The Evil Queens of The Faerie Queene
Hande Seber

Notes on Contributors

Nadine Farhaly M.A., Mag. Phil., is at the University of Salzburg. While her background is in American literature, Nadine’s research interests embrace various popular culture themes like vampires, fairy tales and science fiction.

Gabriela Mádlo is an independent scholar, who studied at the Charles University in Prague and at the South Bohemian University Ceské Budejovice. Her research focuses on subjects in folklore, film and cultural studies primarily in Czech comedies and New Wave cinema as well as witchcraft and the witch-hunt represented in film and literature.