Magic and the Supernatural - Lancaster University

Vrajabhūmi Vanderheyden
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Vrajabhūmi Vanderheyden (Research Foundation Flanders – FWO; University
of Antwerp – Centre for Urban History) studied history at the University of
Antwerp and preservation of monuments and sites at the Hoger
Architectuurinstituut Henry van de Velde. At this time she is preparing a PhD on
the negotiated attitudes towards the supernatural in the city of Lier in sixteenth-
and seventeenth-century Brabant. She is particularly interested in the history of
witchcraft and magic, demonic possession and ghostly encounters.
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