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Three thousand years of encounters with malevolent beings that have invaded our waking lives and our nightmaresA Penguin ClassicFor millennia, societies have told tales of their fears incarnate—otherworldly couriers of plague, death, temptation, and moral decline. Drawing from three thousand years of religious traditions and world literature, The Penguin Book of Demons follows these supernatural creatures—and the humans who have hunted and been haunted by them—through accounts across cultures and continents, the daimones of ancient Greece and Rome; the Nephilim, the giant, biblical half-humans who stalked the earth before the Great Flood; corrupted angels, condemned to eternity in Hell; the sickness-spreading fairy folk of Celtic mythology; the djinn of Islamic Arabia; the female, child-eating gelloudes of Byzantium; the seductive incubi and succubi of northern Europe; the animal spirits of early modern China; and the cannibalistic wendigo of Native American folklore. From demonic possession to black magic, these accounts give life to a spellbinding, skin-crawling history of the paranormal.
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Penguin Classics: The Penguin Book of Demons, Scott G. Bruce
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- Année de publication
- 2024
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- Titre
- Penguin Classics: The Penguin Book of Demons
- Langue
- Anglais
- Auteurs
- Scott G. Bruce
- Éditeur
- Penguin Classics
- Publié
- 2024
- Format
- souple
- Pages
- 368
- ISBN10
- 0143137867
- ISBN13
- 9780143137863
- Séries
- Mots clés
- Nonfiction, Sciences sociales, Livres pour enfants, Esotérisme & Religion, Thèmes religieux, Religion, Animaux, Spiritualité et spiritualisme, Thèmes chrétiens, Contes, Magie, Phénomènes surnaturels, Sociologie, Mort, Mythologie, Époque antique, Écrits rassemblés, Islam, Occultisme, Folklore, Anges, Rome antique, Saints et saintes, Histoires effrayantes, Rituels et cérémonies, Grèce antique, Enfer, Contes populaires, Magie noire, Démonologie, Chine ancienne, Néphilim, Incube
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- Three thousand years of encounters with malevolent beings that have invaded our waking lives and our nightmaresA Penguin ClassicFor millennia, societies have told tales of their fears incarnate—otherworldly couriers of plague, death, temptation, and moral decline. Drawing from three thousand years of religious traditions and world literature, The Penguin Book of Demons follows these supernatural creatures—and the humans who have hunted and been haunted by them—through accounts across cultures and continents, the daimones of ancient Greece and Rome; the Nephilim, the giant, biblical half-humans who stalked the earth before the Great Flood; corrupted angels, condemned to eternity in Hell; the sickness-spreading fairy folk of Celtic mythology; the djinn of Islamic Arabia; the female, child-eating gelloudes of Byzantium; the seductive incubi and succubi of northern Europe; the animal spirits of early modern China; and the cannibalistic wendigo of Native American folklore. From demonic possession to black magic, these accounts give life to a spellbinding, skin-crawling history of the paranormal.