Demon Lovers - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Demon Lovers write by Walter Stephens. This book was released on 2003-08-15. Demon Lovers available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Demon-Lovers and Their Victims in British Fiction
Demon-Lovers and Their Victims in British Fiction - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Demon-Lovers and Their Victims in British Fiction write by Toni Reed. This book was released on 2021-10-21. Demon-Lovers and Their Victims in British Fiction available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The hero of the story is a demonic lover—dark, handsome, mysterious, and dangerously seductive. The heroine—beautiful, and innocent—willingly becomes his victim and is destroyed by him. This story of demon-lover and victim, always charged with passion, has been told over and over, from Greek mythology through contemporary fiction and films. Demon-Lovers and Their Victims in British Fiction is the first historical and structural exploration of the demon-lover motif, with emphasis on major works of British fiction from the eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth centuries; it will interest those concerned with gender role conflicts in literature and with the mutual influence of oral and written texts of folklore and formal literature.
Demon-Lovers and Their Victims in British Fiction
Demon-Lovers and Their Victims in British Fiction - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Demon-Lovers and Their Victims in British Fiction write by Toni Reed. This book was released on 2014-07-11. Demon-Lovers and Their Victims in British Fiction available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The hero of the story is a demonic lover -- dark, handsome, mysterious, and dangerously seductive. The heroine -- beautiful, and innocent -- willingly becomes his victim and is destroyed by him. This story of demon-lover and victim, always charged with passion, has been told over and over, from Greek mythology through contemporary fiction and films. Demon-Lovers and Their Victims in British Fiction is the first historical and structural exploration of the demon-lover motif, with emphasis on major works of British fiction from the eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth centuries; it will interest those concerned with gender role conflicts in literature and with the mutual influence of oral and written texts of folklore and formal literature.
Incubus
Incubus - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Incubus write by Carol Goodman. This book was released on 2011. Incubus available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Ever since moving to Fairwick to take up a teaching past at the local college, Callie has been having vivid, erotic dreams about a man made out of moonlight and shadows.
The Demon Lover (#1)
The Demon Lover (#1) - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Demon Lover (#1) write by Juliet Dark. This book was released on 2011. The Demon Lover (#1) available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Callie has a demon lover--an incubus--and he will seduce her, pleasure her, and eventually suck the very life from her. Then she makes another startling discovery. As the tenured witches of the college and the resident fairies in the surrounding woods prepare to cast out the incubus, Callie must accomplish something infinitely more difficult--banishing this demon lover from her heart.
