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Witches and Demons

Author : Jean La Fontaine
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 1785330861
Total Pages : 156 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (853 download)

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Download or read book Witches and Demons written by Jean La Fontaine and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2016-04-01 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Devil worship, black magic, and witchcraft have long captivated anthropologists as well as the general public. In this volume, Jean La Fontaine explores the intersection of expert and lay understandings of evil and the cultural forms that evil assumes. The chapters touch on public scares about devil-worship, misconceptions about human sacrifice and the use of body parts in healing practices, and mistaken accusations of children practicing witchcraft. Together, these cases demonstrate that comparison is a powerful method of cultural understanding, but warns of the dangers and mistaken conclusions that untrained ideas about other ways of life can lead to.

Devils, Demons, and Witchcraft

Author : Ernst and Johanna Lehner
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 048613251X
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (861 download)

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Download or read book Devils, Demons, and Witchcraft written by Ernst and Johanna Lehner and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2012-05-11 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 244 representations, symbols, and manuscript pages of devils and death from Ancient Egypt to 1913. Fascinating graphics depict demons, witches, and warlocks, more. Works by Dürer, Cranach, Holbein, Rembrandt, others.

Demon Lovers

Author : Walter Stephens
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 9780226772622
Total Pages : 472 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (726 download)

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Download or read book Demon Lovers written by Walter Stephens and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2003-08-15 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On September 20, 1587, Walpurga Hausmännin of Dillingen in southern Germany was burned at the stake as a witch. Although she had confessed to committing a long list of maleficia (deeds of harmful magic), including killing forty—one infants and two mothers in labor, her evil career allegedly began with just one heinous act—sex with a demon. Fornication with demons was a major theme of her trial record, which detailed an almost continuous orgy of sexual excess with her diabolical paramour Federlin "in many divers places, . . . even in the street by night." As Walter Stephens demonstrates in Demon Lovers, it was not Hausmännin or other so-called witches who were obsessive about sex with demons—instead, a number of devout Christians, including trained theologians, displayed an uncanny preoccupation with the topic during the centuries of the "witch craze." Why? To find out, Stephens conducts a detailed investigation of the first and most influential treatises on witchcraft (written between 1430 and 1530), including the infamous Malleus Maleficarum (Hammer of Witches). Far from being credulous fools or mindless misogynists, early writers on witchcraft emerge in Stephens's account as rational but reluctant skeptics, trying desperately to resolve contradictions in Christian thought on God, spirits, and sacraments that had bedeviled theologians for centuries. Proof of the physical existence of demons—for instance, through evidence of their intercourse with mortal witches—would provide strong evidence for the reality of the supernatural, the truth of the Bible, and the existence of God. Early modern witchcraft theory reflected a crisis of belief—a crisis that continues to be expressed today in popular debates over angels, Satanic ritual child abuse, and alien abduction.

Thinking with Demons

Author : Stuart Clark
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780198208082
Total Pages : 850 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book Thinking with Demons written by Stuart Clark and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 850 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This major work offers a new interpretation of the witchcraft beliefs of European intellectuals between the fifteenth and eighteenth centuries, showing how these beliefs fitted rationally with other beliefs of the period and how far the nature of rationality is dependent on its historical context.

The Science of Demons

Author : Jan Machielsen
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 135133364X
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (513 download)

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Download or read book The Science of Demons written by Jan Machielsen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-03-18 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Witches, ghosts, fairies. Premodern Europe was filled with strange creatures, with the devil lurking behind them all. But were his powers real? Did his powers have limits? Or were tales of the demonic all one grand illusion? Physicians, lawyers, and theologians at different times and places answered these questions differently and disagreed bitterly. The demonic took many forms in medieval and early modern Europe. By examining individual authors from across the continent, this book reveals the many purposes to which the devil could be put, both during the late medieval fight against heresy and during the age of Reformations. It explores what it was like to live with demons, and how careers and identities were constructed out of battles against them – or against those who granted them too much power. Together, contributors chart the history of the devil from his emergence during the 1300s as a threatening figure – who made pacts with human allies and appeared bodily – through to the comprehensive but controversial demonologies of the turn of the seventeenth century, when European witch-hunting entered its deadliest phase. This book is essential reading for all students and researchers of the history of the supernatural in medieval and early modern Europe.

A Demon-Haunted Land

Author : Monica Black
Publisher : Metropolitan Books
ISBN 13 : 1250225663
Total Pages : 201 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (52 download)

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Download or read book A Demon-Haunted Land written by Monica Black and published by Metropolitan Books. This book was released on 2020-11-17 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A Demon-Haunted Land is absorbing, gripping, and utterly fascinating... Beautifully written, without even a hint of jargon or pretension, it casts a significant and unexpected new light on the early phase of the Federal Republic of Germany’s history. Black’s analysis of the copious, largely unknown archival sources on which the book is based is unfailingly subtle and intelligent.” —Richard J. Evans, The New Republic In the aftermath of World War II, a succession of mass supernatural events swept through war-torn Germany. A messianic faith healer rose to extraordinary fame, prayer groups performed exorcisms, and enormous crowds traveled to witness apparitions of the Virgin Mary. Most strikingly, scores of people accused their neighbors of witchcraft, and found themselves in turn hauled into court on charges of defamation, assault, and even murder. What linked these events, in the wake of an annihilationist war and the Holocaust, was a widespread preoccupation with evil. While many histories emphasize Germany’s rapid transition from genocidal dictatorship to liberal democracy, A Demon-Haunted Land places in full view the toxic mistrust, profound bitterness, and spiritual malaise that unfolded alongside the economic miracle. Drawing on previously unpublished archival materials, acclaimed historian Monica Black argues that the surge of supernatural obsessions stemmed from the unspoken guilt and shame of a nation remarkably silent about what was euphemistically called “the most recent past.” This shadow history irrevocably changes our view of postwar Germany, revealing the country’s fraught emotional life, deep moral disquiet, and the cost of trying to bury a horrific legacy.

Witches of America

Author : Alex Mar
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0374291373
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (742 download)

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Download or read book Witches of America written by Alex Mar and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2015-10-20 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Witches are gathering." When most people hear the word "witches," they think of horror films and Halloween, but to the nearly one million Americans who practice Paganism today, witchcraft is a nature-worshipping, polytheistic, and very real religion. So Alex Mar discovers when she sets out to film a documentary and finds herself drawn deep into the world of present-day magic. Witches of America follows Mar on her immersive five-year trip into the occult, charting modern Paganism from its roots in 1950s England to its current American mecca in the San Francisco Bay Area; from a gathering of more than a thousand witches in the Illinois woods to the New Orleans branch of one of the world's most influential magical societies. Along the way she takes part in dozens of rituals and becomes involved with a wild array of characters. This sprawling magical community compels Mar to confront what she believes is possible--or hopes might be. With keen intelligence and wit, Mar illuminates the world of witchcraft while grappling in fresh and unexpected ways with the question underlying every faith: Why do we choose to believe in anything at all?--Adapted from book jacket.

Pentecostalism and Witchcraft

Author : Knut Rio
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319560689
Total Pages : 315 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (195 download)

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Download or read book Pentecostalism and Witchcraft written by Knut Rio and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-10-29 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This open access book presents fresh ethnographic work from the regions of Africa and Melanesia—where the popularity of charismatic Christianity can be linked to a revival and transformation of witchcraft. The volume demonstrates how the Holy Spirit has become an adversary to the reconfirmed presence of witches, demons, and sorcerers as manifestations of evil. We learn how this is articulated in spiritual warfare, in crusades, and in healing or witch-killing raids. The contributors highlight what happens to phenomena that people address as locally specific witchcraft or sorcery when re-molded within the universalist Pentecostal demonology, vocabulary, and confrontational methodology.

Exorcising our Demons: Magic, Witchcraft and Visual Culture in Early Modern Europe

Author : Charles Zika
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004475915
Total Pages : 630 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (44 download)

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Download or read book Exorcising our Demons: Magic, Witchcraft and Visual Culture in Early Modern Europe written by Charles Zika and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-10-11 with total page 630 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of sixteen essays deals with the role of magic, religion and witchcraft in European culture, 1450-1650, and the critical role of the visual in that culture. It covers the relationship of humanism and magic; the intersection of religious ritual, orthodoxy and power; the discursive links between the visual language of witchcraft and contemporary anxieties about sexuality and savagery. The introductory chapter urges us to exorcise our tendency to reduce historical experiences of the demonic to forms of unreason created in a distant past. Only then can we understand the role of the demonic in our historical definition of the self and the other. Richly illustrated with 112 images, the book will interest historians and art historians.

Further Studies on Mesopotamian Witchcraft Beliefs and Literature

Author : I. Tzvi Abusch
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789004421905
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (219 download)

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Download or read book Further Studies on Mesopotamian Witchcraft Beliefs and Literature written by I. Tzvi Abusch and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Further Studies on Mesopotamian Witchcraft offers a collection of studies of Akkadian incantations and rituals directed against witchcraft. Many of these essays offer solutions for literary and textual difficulties in these texts through analysis and reconstruction of their historical development.

Wicked Deeds

Author : B. Spicer
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781546670520
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (75 download)

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Download or read book Wicked Deeds written by B. Spicer and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-06-05 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sometimes wicked people do wicked things simply because they can... The twelve stories in Wicked Deeds tell tales of witches and warlocks with ill intent, devilish demons bent on destruction, and other doers of evil who make the world a terrifying place. What is a mother to do when her daughter is gifted but lives under the thumb of her fanatical preacher husband who will brook no talk of the supernatural? What of a demon so desperate to free himself of a trap that he will force another to repeat his atrocities and condemn a young boy to his demonic fate? Or maybe the story of a crotchety old witch with a score to settle against the town she lives in is more to your liking - what evil will the seemingly harmless town-crazy call upon when faced with an ultimatum? If you're looking for wicked people with supernatural abilities doing wicked things, this is the collection for you!

Child of Demon and Witch

Author : Stevie Pleasentview
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 231 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (872 download)

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Download or read book Child of Demon and Witch written by Stevie Pleasentview and published by . This book was released on 2020-09-17 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the first time in her life, Neekah is valued. Being a servant is better than being no one, especially when you're getting served right back... By a whole group of men. The bastard child of a witch who didn't want her and a demon father she knew never knew, Neekah is taken captive by the Twisted Dagger clan, recognized for her ability to bring luck to any who would take her. Neekah's inner fire causes her to catch more than just the eyes of the Twisted Dagger's leader, Jhardron, who is forced to wrestle with his desire to be a strong leader and share Neekah with his clan or keep her for himself. Filled with dreams that speak to real magic being just at the edge of Neekah's consciousness and a looming threat on the horizon, Neekah and Jhardron must deal with their feelings and the challenges that come with commanding a tribe of warriors. NOTE: This dark fantasy romance story may touch on subjects that are not suitable to all readers.

Demons Lie

Author : Sherry Ficklin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781948583114
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (831 download)

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Download or read book Demons Lie written by Sherry Ficklin and published by . This book was released on 2018-10-30 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Imps, Demons, Hobgoblins, Witches, Fairies & Elves

Author : Leonard Baskin
Publisher : Knopf Books for Young Readers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 58 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Imps, Demons, Hobgoblins, Witches, Fairies & Elves written by Leonard Baskin and published by Knopf Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 1984 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An illustrated catalogue of imps, hobgoblins, demons, and witches taken from literature and the author's own imagination.

How to Aggressively Destroy Demons and Witches

Author : Gedaliah Shay
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 130 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (991 download)

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Download or read book How to Aggressively Destroy Demons and Witches written by Gedaliah Shay and published by . This book was released on 2021-01-23 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: TAKE CONTROL OF THE DEMON AND WITCHES INVADING YOUR LIFE! Do you experience difficulty in making progress in your workplace, among your colleagues, or even spiritually? Do you get disappointment in places where you should get favors and keep experiencing failure even when you're close to the end of your dark tunnel? Or, do you find it hard to get the real purpose of your life, and you keep going round in circles without any real progress? Why do you experience this, you may ask? The depth of the Spiritual realm and its effect on your life is more than meets the eye! It is more than what you think it is. The secret to getting to the root of the world's evil powers is unknown to many, which is why they stay camped under the influence of the principalities of this world. You know the magnitude of God's power and his greatness over every evil over your life, but do you know that you can command much more with some secret weapons at your disposal? How would you like to know the exact strategies and plans of your enemies and combat them to turn things around to greatness for you? What if you are shown the exact picture of the works of the devil and taught the surest ways to fight back and take over your life completely from the evil that witches and wizards control? Wouldn't it be easier for you to know exactly where your problem stems from and the most definite solution to do to get back on track of progress? Do you know the strange and terrifying lengths that men of this world go to acquire power? Do you want to keep yourself safe, away from their predatory Eyes? Then get the secret of these in "HOW TO AGGRESSIVELY DESTROY DEMONS AND WITCHES." This Book was specially made to prepare you by guiding you through steps on knowing your enemy, learning more about the power of God, and the exact ways to use the unconquerable weapons God has given you! You need to stop grappling with the fear of the unknown and send fire for fire against the forces of darkness against you! The Perfect Prayer handbook for all Christian Warriors.

A Demon and His Witch

Author : Eve Langlais
Publisher : CreateSpace
ISBN 13 : 9781499198805
Total Pages : 156 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (988 download)

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Download or read book A Demon and His Witch written by Eve Langlais and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-04-26 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Burning alive is nothing compared to the heat of his touch. Roasted at the stake as a witch while her lover watches, Ysabel sells her soul to the devil in return for revenge. A fair trade until her ex-boyfriend escapes the bowels of Hell and she's forced to team up with a demon to fetch the jerk back. Remy's seen a lot of things during his tenure in Lucifer's guard, but nothing can prepare him for the witch with the acerbic tongue - and voluptuous figure. Her mouth says 'Screw you,' but her body screams 'Take me.' What's a poor demon to do when his heart makes things even more complicated by goading him to make her his...

Possessed

Author : Christine Worobec
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780875805986
Total Pages : 303 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (59 download)

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Download or read book Possessed written by Christine Worobec and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Women known as "shriekers" howled, screamed, convulsed, and tore their clothes. Believed to be possessed by devils, these central figures in a cultural drama known as klikushestvo stirred various reactions among those who encountered them. While sympathetic monks and peasants tended to shelter the shriekers, others analyzed, diagnosed, and objectified them. The Russian Orthodox Church played an important role, for, while moving toward a scientific explanation for the behavior of these women, it was reluctant to abandon the ideas of possession and miraculous exorcism. Possessed is the first book to examine the phenomenon of demon possession in Russia. Drawing upon a wide range of sources--religious, psychiatric, ethnographic, and literary--Worobec looks at klikushestvo over a broad span of time but focuses mainly on the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, when all of Russian society felt the pressure of modernization. Worobec's definitive study is as much an account of perceptions of the klikushi as an analysis of the women themselves, for, even as modern rationalism began to affect religious belief in Russia, explanations of the shriekers continued to differ widely. Examining various cultural constructions, Worobec shows how these interpretations were rooted in theology, village life and politics, and gender relationships. Engaging broad issues in Russian history, women's history, and popular religious culture, Possessed will interest readers across several disciplines. Its insights into the cultural phenomenon of possession among Russian peasant women carry rich implications for understanding the ways in which a complex society treated women believed to be out of control.