Witches and Demons - 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 Witches and Demons write by Jean La Fontaine. This book was released on 2016-04-01. Witches and Demons available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Witches and Demons
Witches and Demons - 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 Witches and Demons write by Jean Sybil La Fontaine. This book was released on 2016. Witches and Demons available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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
Devils, Demons, and Witchcraft - 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 Devils, Demons, and Witchcraft write by Ernst and Johanna Lehner. This book was released on 2012-05-11. Devils, Demons, and Witchcraft available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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
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.
Thinking with Demons
Thinking with Demons - 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 Thinking with Demons write by Stuart Clark. This book was released on 1999. Thinking with Demons available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
