Shaman of Oberstdorf Shaman of Oberstdorf: Chonrad Stoeckhlin and the Phantoms of the Night

Shaman of Oberstdorf tells the fascinating story of a sixteenth-century mountain village caught in a panic of its own making. Four hundred years ago the Bavarian alpine town of Oberstdorf, surrounded by the towering peaks of the Vorarlberg, was awash in legends and rumors of prophets and healers, of spirits and specters, of witches and soothsayers. The book focuses on the life of a horse wrangler named Chonrad Stoeckhlin [1549-1587], whose extraordinary visions of the afterlife and enthusiastic practice of the occult eventually led to his death-and to the death of a number of village women-for crimes of witchcraft. Wolfgang Behringer is one of the premier historians of German witchcraft, not only because of his mastery of the subject at the regional level, but because he also writes movingly, forcefully, and with an eye for the telling anecdote.

Author: Wolfgang Behringer
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Published: 08/29/1998
Pages: 203
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.74lbs
Size: 9.05h x 6.05w x 0.61d
ISBN13: 9780813918532
ISBN10: 0813918537
BISAC Categories:
- History | Europe | Germany
- Body, Mind & Spirit | Occultism
- Body, Mind & Spirit | Supernatural (Incl. Ghosts)

About the Author

Wolfgang Behringer teaches at the University of Munich and the University of Bonn and is the author of numerous books on German history and witchcraft.

H.C. Erik Midelfort is Julian Bishko Professor of History at the University of Virginia and the author of Mad Princes of Renaissance Germany [Virginia].

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