The dangerous hour; the lore of Crisis and Mystery in Rural Greece

Contents
Foreword
1. Introduction
Section 1. Narratives of the Villagers
	2. The Life Cycle: Its dangerous periods
		Tales the villagers told
			Babies  and  Changelings
			Unmarried  Girls
			Courtship  and  Wedding
			The Lechona
			The Elderly
	3. The Occult Estate
		Priests
		Magicians, Sorcerers, and Witches
		Mediums
		Gipsies
		The King
		The Stranger
	4. Preternatural Human Conditions and Qualities
		Pollution and Purity
		The Light-Shadowed Ones
		The Passing of the Spirits
		Demon Possession
	5. On Venturing into the Other World
		Dreams, Visitations, Augurs, and Omens
		Incubation
		Augurs and Omens
		Oracles and Prescience
		Death
		Revenants
		The Soul
	6. The Extraordinary Dead
		Christ
		The Panaghia
		The Saints
		Magicians
	7. Powers and Dominions: Heavenly Hierarchies and Infernal Peers
		Stringlos
		Charon
		The Devil
		The Moira
		Moros
		The Dangerous Hour
		Koukoudi
		God
		Exotika and Demons
		Nereids
		Lamias
		Kallikantzari
		Angels
	8. That which is Exceptional in Nature
		Animals
		Birds  and Fowl
		Dogs
		Jackals
		Bears
		Snakes
		The Liokra
		Animal Objects and Substances
		Human Substances with Magical Uses
		Trees, Plants, and Vegetable Substances
		Natural Objects, Substances and Phenomena
		The Moon
		Stars
		The Sun
		Elements and Compounds
		Natural Formations: Arches and Caves
		Fire
		Echo
		Manufactured Objects
		Times and Places
	9. Affliction and Deliverance
		The Evil Eye
		Xemetrima for Other Ills
		The Wandering Navel
		The Waist
		Anemopyroma  (Facial  erysipelas)
		Jaundice
		Korakiasma
		The Bad Pimple (Anthrax)
		Moon Convulsions
		Insanity
		Pimples and Boils
		Skin Disorders
		Toothache
		Urinary Disorder
		Mumps
		Tonsillitis
		Abscesses
		Measles
		Wounds
	10. Powers and Words
		The Healing Power
		The “Bad” Passes Out
		The Power of Words
		Names
		Curses
		Numbers
		Gossip
Section 2. Analysis and Interpretation of Narrative Materials
	11. A Profusion of Differences
		Table 1. Reported regions of birth for parents of father
		Table 2. Reported regions of birth for grandparents of father
		Table 3. Reported region of birth for parents of mother
		Table 4. Reported region of birth for grandparents of mother
		Productivity of Narrative  Material in Response to  Stimulus Questions and  Discussion
		Table 5. Family narratice productivity and the presence and reputation of a healer in the family
		A Diversified  Heritage
		Table 6. Reported awareness of preternatural lore
		Table 7. Assent and dissent regarding the Exotika and Vrykolakes
		ifferences  Revealed  by Content  Code  Analysis
		Table 8. Major Topics appearing in the narrative material produced by the two most productive families
		A Note on the Concept of ‘Culture’
	12. Functions and Reflections of the Narratives: An Introduction
	13. Narrative Effects
	14. Intentional Narratives
	15. Attitudes, Practices and Relationships within the Community
	16. Intrapsychic and Interpersonal Dynamics
		Conflict, Suffering, and Strain
		Insanity
		Muteness
		A Case of Denial
		Child-Rearing
		Childhood Recollections  and the Good Old Days
		The Good Old Days: Other Interpretations
		Anxiety
		Preventing or Defending Against Anxiety
		Philotimo
		The Light-Shadowed Ones
		Dreams
		The Unconscious
	17. Cognitive Functions
		Organizing Experience
		Assumptions about Nature: equivalence of internally and externally derived data
		Anthropomorphism
		Energy and Power
Section 3. Survivals and Parallels
	18. The Past in the Present: Methods and Concepts in the Study of Historical Survivals
		Methodological and conceptual difficulties
		Living Conditions Compared
	19. Continuities in Response to Crisis and Mystery
		The Life Cycle, Its dangerous periods
			Infants and New Mothers: Present beliefs summarized
			Maidens, Marriages and Motherhood: Present views
			Virginity and the Status of Women
			Marriage and Intercourse
			Marriage, Motherhood, and Misery
			Child Killing
			The Elderly
		The Occult Estate
			Priests
			Magicians
			Other Occult Practitioners: Witches
			The Mothers as Wise Women
			Strangers
			Gipsies
			Kings
			Preternatural  Conditions
			Pollution
			The Light-Shadowed
			Demonization
			Demon Possession
			The Evil Eye
	20. The Past in the Present (continued)
		The  Other  World
		The Extraordinary Dead
		Powers and Dominions
		The Exceptional in Nature
		Affliction and Deliverance
		Powers and Words
		Survivals or Innovations.  Some Unresolved Issues
	21. The Past in the Present: Commentary and Summary
	22. Present Parallels
		Morocco
		Spain
		South Italy
		Yugoslavia
		Bulgaria
		Conclusion
	23. Epilogue
Appendix
Bibliography
Index