About the Author

Éva Pócs is Professor Emeritus and Principal Investigator of the ERC project “East-West” at the Institute of Ethnology at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. Her research interests include the basic concepts of religious anthropology, such as the cult of the dead, divination, supernatural communication, witchcraft, fairy cult, shamanism, and the comprehensive analysis of modern folk religion and folk beliefs. She is the series editor of sourcebooks on early modern religion and the editor and co-editor of 31 volumes on the anthropology of religion and folklore, including Witchcraft and Demonology in Hungary and Transylvania (2017). She has 424 academic publications, of which 12 are books, including Fairies and Witches at the Boundary of South-Eastern and Central Europe (1989) and Between the Living and the Dead: a Perspective on Witches and Seers in the Early Modern Age (1998).