Gefesselte Krankheitsgeister / von Fridolf Kudlien.
Abstract:
'Gods or ghosts kept men in a kind of prison: This is an age-old and culturally wide-spread idea. The paper deals with a 'Krankheitgeister' (i.e. either personifications' of diseases or ghosts causing diseases) in such a situation. Starting from classical antiquity, the study goes far beyond this, discussing parallels from virtually all over the world.' From the English summary
Gesnerus 44 (1987), p. 193-207