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Cette recherche se propose de montrer, à partir de travaux ethnographiques menés en Lorraine (France) durant six années, le rôle social et thérapeutique des guérisseurs lorrains contemporains. L'enquête de terrain sur le long terme a permis de recueillir des données qualitatives par le biais de dizaines d'entretiens réalisés auprès de guérisseurs-désenvoûteurs et de clients. Des observations in situ ont mis en valeur la diversité et la complexité des rituels de guérison ou de désenvoûtement. Des recherches muséographiques et documentaires ont été couplées au travail ethnographique. La thèse cherche à définir les compétences, le don inné ou hérité, la formation et les qualités des guérisseurs qui revendiquent des savoirs sur le corps, le mal et la maladie et les appliquent dans des rituels dits traditionnels. Les rituels très variés exécutés par les guérisseurs font largement appel à des savoir-faire et des techniques empruntées au christianisme ; ils utilisent des prières, des substances, des objets, des symboles religieux et des gestes sacrés comme les signes de croix ou l'imposition des mains. Les rituels magico-thérapeutiques et mécaniques peuvent intégrer des plantes, des pierres, des talismans... mais ils dépendent plus largement du bon usage de la force qui est au centre des rituels. Nous verrons enfin la sorcellerie et ses acteurs : le guérisseur-désenvoûteur, l'exorciste et la victime d'une part, et d'autre part, leurs adversaires (le sorcier(ère), les esprits-démons ou le Diable). Ce système d'explication du malheur et de la maladie performant est abordé à partir des itinéraires thérapeutiques des clients. / This research deals with the social and therapeutic role of the healers in Lorraine (France). A six-year investigation for six years has allowed the collection of qualitative facts through several interviews with healers, sorcerers, witch doctor and their patients. A number of observations in the field have shown the diversity and complexity of therapeutic and magic rituals. Research conduced in museum and libraries along with fieldwork have been combined. This thesis tries to define skills, talents and the training and qualities of healers who claim to have knowledge of bodily troubles and sicknesses; and how they apply them in "traditional" rituals. Healers have neither degree nor recognition in official medicine; they have acquired their gift from their birth or during a transmission process. Healer's rituals are highly varied but know-how and techniques are often borrowed from Christianity. They use prayers, substances, objects, religious symbols, holy gestures such as signs of the cross or laying on of hands. The therapeutic and mechanic magical rituals may integrate healing or magic plants, minerals, talismans, etc. Generally, they depend on the good use of the "force" which is at the heart of rituals. The last part of the thesis is about witchcraft, sorcery and their agents: the healer, the exorcist-priest and the victim on one hand, and their opponents on the other: the witches, wizards, spirits, demons and the Devil. Sorcery and witchcraft is still a method used to understand tragedy, misfortune and sickness if it's studied from therapeutic routes of the patients.

Red Magic is a play in three acts by Michel de Ghelderode. As part of this thesis, it was directed by Michael Irwin and produced on November 2-5, 1966, at the Frederic Wood Studio Theatre on the campus of the University of British Columbia. This written thesis is an analysis of the play in preparation for, and a record of that production. It is divided into three sections. The first section is a discussion in essay form of the author, the play, and the production. Pertinent biographical information about the author is followed by a discussion of the characteristics of his plays as they appear in Red Magic. The play itself is analysed as to plot, theme, dialogue, character, relevence to our time, playwright's intent, type of universe depicted, and forces at work behind the action. Because there are available no published interpretations of Red Magic, this part is limited to the director's interpretation. A specific approach to the style of production and to the solution of problems follows. A bibliography completes the essay section. The second section is the specific analysis of the script. Opposite the pages of script appear analytical notes for each French scene under the following headings: Purpose, Actions, Dominant Emotions, Character Dominance, Mood, Rhythmic Image, Shape, Staging, Difficulties, Mechanical Problems and Beats. In the text on the facing pages are shown the scene divisions, cuts, blocking, beat divisions, lighting and sound cues, and some stage directions. The script is preceded by important facts and acknowledgements about the production, a cost breakdown, a box office report, and keys to understanding the analytical information and the symbols used in the text . Complete lighting, sound, property and costume plots follow the script. The third and final section consists of the material record of the production. Costume sketches are followed by a rendering of the set and photographs in colour of the actual production. Following these are samples of the program and newspaper reviews. Lastly, the blueprints of the ground plan and construction drawings are included as foldouts. / Arts, Faculty of / Theatre and Film, Department of / Graduate