Greek Magic: Ancient, Medieval and Modern – John Petropoulos
Magic has always been a widespread phenomenon in Greek Society, starting from Homer’s Circe (the first ‘evil witch’ in western history) and extending to the…
Month: February 2019
Magika Hiera: Ancient Greek Magic and Religion – Christopher A. Faraone, Dirk Obbink
This well-researched and inspiring collection of ten essays by leading American and European scholars challenges the tendency among scholars of Greek religion to ignore what…
The Gnostics: The First Christian Heretics – Sean Martin
Gnosticism is the name given to various religious schools that proliferated in the first centuries after Christ, nearly becoming the dominant form of Christianity, but…
The Gnostic Bible: Gnostic Texts of Mystical Wisdom form the Ancient and Medieval Worlds – Willis Barnstone, Marvin Meyer
Gnosticism was a wide-ranging religious movement of the first millennium CE with earlier antecedents and later flourishings “whose adherents sought salvation through knowledge and personal…
EXORCIST
An exorcist is a person who expels demons. Most exorcists are priests, clergy, or adepts; some laypersons call themselves exorcists. Exorcists use specific prayers and…
The Curse of Canaan: A Demonology of History – Eustace Mullins
Indeed, the great movement of modern history has been to disguise the presence of evil on the earth, to make light of it, to convince…
Biblical Demonology: A Study of Spiritual Forces at Work Today – Unger, Merrill F.
“The supreme merit of Biblical Demonology is that it holds closely to the Word of God. . . . It will remain for many years…
The Lure of the Dark Side: Satan and Western Demonology in Popular Culture – Christopher H. Partridge, Eric S. Christianson
Demons, devils, spirits and vampires are present throughout popular Western culture in film, music and literature. Their religious significance has only recently begun to be…
Witchcraft and Demonology in South-West England, 1640–1789 – Jonathan Barry
Using south-western England as a focus for considering the continued place of witchcraft and demonology in provincial culture in the period between the English and…
Pandemonium and parade : Japanese monsters and the culture of Yōkai – Foster, Michael Dylan
Water sprites, mountain goblins, shape-shifting animals, and the monsters known as yôkai have long haunted the Japanese cultural landscape. This history of the strange and…