Download or read book Demonizing the Fairies written by Jarrett Weston and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study argues that through sermons and their participation in trials for witchcraft, the demonizing rhetoric of the clergy was absorbed by the Scottish peasantry. Consequently, the fairy – belief in which was a major component of Scottish popular culture – went from being perceived as its own distinct entity to a type of demon. Chapter 1 provides an overview of the period between 1550 and 1700, identifying key events in the development of Scottish Protestantism. Chapter 2 builds on these terms by using the written works and sermons of Protestant theologians from Scotland, defining how each perceived the witch, fairies, and Satan as time progressed. While not every theologian during this period saw fairies as demons, the majority viewed these spirits as the Devil's agents. Finally, chapter 3 shifts the focus to the chronological study of testimonies of men and women who were accused of witchcraft, showing how fairies and the Devil became interchangeable entities over time. This chapter affirms that, by the end of the seventeenth century, the Scottish peasantry had reinterpreted these spirits as demons. This study reminds historians of the impact of polemical discourse and its ability to shift culture, considering the demonizing of preternatural traditions changed how people from this period saw themselves and understood the world around them.
Download or read book Fairies Demons and Nature Spirits written by Michael Ostling and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-11-23 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the fairies, demons, and nature spirits haunting the margins of Christendom from late-antique Egypt to early modern Scotland to contemporary Amazonia. Contributions from anthropologists, folklorists, historians and religionists explore Christian strategies of encompassment and marginalization, and the ‘small gods’ undisciplined tendency to evade such efforts at exorcism. Lurking in forest or fairy-mound, chuckling in dark corners of the home or of the demoniac’s body, the small gods both define and disturb the borders of a religion that is endlessly syncretistic and in endless, active denial of its own syncretism. The book will be of interest to students of folklore, indigenous Christianity, the history of science, and comparative religion.
Download or read book A Field Guide to Demons Fairies Fallen Angels and Other Subversive Spirits written by Carol K. Mack and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1999-10-15 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published: New York: Arcade Pub.: Distributed by Little, Brown and Company, c1998.
Download or read book The Liminality of Fairies written by Piotr Spyra and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-05-13 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examining the fairies of medieval romance as liminal beings, this book draws on anthropological and philosophical studies of liminality to combine folkloristic insights into the nature of fairies with close readings of selected romance texts. Tracing different meanings and manifestations of liminality in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Sir Orfeo, Sir Launfal, Thomas of Erceldoune and Robert Henryson’s Orpheus and Eurydice, the volume offers a comprehensive theory of liminality rooted in structuralist anthropology and poststructuralist theory. Arguing that romance fairies both embody and represent the liminal, The Liminality of Fairies posits and answers fundamental theoretical questions about the limits of representation and the relationship between romance hermeneutics and criticism. The interdisciplinary nature of the argument will appeal not just to medievalists and literary critics but also to anthropologists, folklorists as well as scholars working within the fields of cultural history and contemporary literary theory.
Download or read book Demon Fairy Censored written by J. M. Lopez and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2015-06-18 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the powers of witchcraft try to change God's plan for a spiritual girl named Julianna, it forces her to embark into a demonic realm where her fate becomes uncertain. Meanwhile, a blood battle erupts when the Demon Fairy is unleashed into the world. Warning: This Book has been censored.
Download or read book Fairies written by Morgan Daimler and published by John Hunt Publishing. This book was released on 2017-12-08 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The subject of fairies in Celtic cultures is a complex one that seems to endlessly intrigue people. What exactly are fairies? What can they do? How can we interact with them? Answering these questions becomes even harder in a world that is disconnected from the traditional folklore and flooded with modern sources that are often vastly at odds with the older beliefs. This book aims to present readers with a straightforward guide to the older fairy beliefs, covering everything from Fairyland itself to details about the beings within it. The Otherworld is full of dangers and blessings, and this guidebook will help you navigate a safe course among the Good People.
Download or read book Demon Fairy written by J. M. Lopez and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2015-06-18 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the powers of witchcraft try to change God's plan for a spiritual girl named Julianna, it forces her to embark into a demonic realm where her fate becomes uncertain. Meanwhile, a blood battle erupts when the Demon Fairy is unleashed into the world. WARNING: This novel contains religious elements based on the Catholic faith. It also has strong violence and sexual content. There is a censored version available that has the sexual content taken out, but it still has some implied sexuality.
Download or read book Fairies written by Rosemary Guiley and published by Infobase Publishing. This book was released on 2010 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fairies are among the most popular figures in mythology and folklore as stories about them exist in almost every culture around the world. Appearing under many guises from the familiar tiny, winged people to balls of light, fairies are often portrayed as spiteful and mischievous. Though often associated with childhood interests, fairies are celebrated by people of all ages through stories, songs, dances, and festivals. ""Fairies"" explains the folklore and mythology of fairies, but it also presents fairies as real beings who exist in their own realm and have genuine interactions with human beings. Some people believe it is possible to see fairies, and simple techniques for opening up this enchanted realm are described. The book also looks at major fairy hoaxes and frauds and examines the connections between fairies and the UFO phenomenon. The chapters include: The Mysterious Origins of Fairies; Where Fairies Live; Fairy Powers; Bad Fairies; Changeling; and, How to See Fairies.
Download or read book They Believed That written by William E. Burns and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2022-12-01 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This encyclopedia is the perfect guide to the weird, magical, superstitious, and supernatural beliefs of people from all over the world. This book is devoted to those human beliefs that fall in the "gray zone" between science, religion, and everyday life-call them superstitious, supernatural, magical, or just wrong. In an often incomprehensible world where lightning or plague could end life quickly or drought could condemn a poor family to agonizing death, superstitious beliefs gave people a feeling of understanding or even control. They have continued to shape societies and cultures ever since. This book covers a range of superstitious, supernatural, and otherwise unusual beliefs from the ancient world to the early 19th century. More than 100 entries explain beliefs, discuss historical evidence, and explain how each belief differs across cultures. This book is a perfect gateway for anyone curious about superstitious and magical beliefs, with topics ranging from the everyday, such as dogs and iron, to legendary figures, such as Hermes Trismegistus and the Yellow Emperor.
Download or read book Myths and Legends of the Celts written by James MacKillop and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2006-06-01 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Myths and Legends of the Celts is a fascinating and wide-ranging introduction to the mythology of the peoples who inhabited the northwestern fringes of Europe - from Britain and the Isle of Man to Gaul and Brittany. Drawing on recent historical and archaeological research, as well as literary and oral sources, the guide looks at the gods and goddesses of Celtic myth; at the nature of Celtic religion, with its rituals of sun and moon worship; and at the druids who served society as judges, diviners and philosophers. It also examines the many Celtic deities who were linked with animals and such natural phenomena as rivers and caves, or who later became associated with local Christian saints. And it explores in detail the rich variety of Celtic myths: from early legends of King Arthur to the stories of the Welsh Mabinogi, and from tales of heroes including Cúchulainn, Fionn mac Cumhaill and the warrior queen Medb to tales of shadowy otherworlds - the homes of spirits and fairies. What emerges is a wonderfully diverse and fertile tradition of myth making that has captured the imagination of countless generations, introduced and explained here with compelling insight.
Download or read book Witches of the North written by Liv Helene Willumsen and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2013-06-13 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Witches of the North. Scotland and Finnmark is a comparative study of witchcraft persecution in Scotland and Finnmark, Norway. A wide range of quantitative and qualitative analyses based mainly on legal documents shed light on the witch-hunts in the two regions during the seventeenth century. Statistical analyses give information about tendencies in the source material in total. The qualitative chapters contain close-readings of trial documents, wherein the various voices heard during a trial are analysed: the voice of the scribe, the voice of the law, the voice of the accused person and the voices of the witnesses. The analyses combined provide a broad view of the historical phenomenon in question as well as in-depth studies of individual witchcraft cases.
Download or read book Elf Queens and Holy Friars written by Richard Firth Green and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2016-09-26 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Elf Queens and Holy Friars Richard Firth Green investigates an important aspect of medieval culture that has been largely ignored by modern literary scholarship: the omnipresent belief in fairyland. Taking as his starting point the assumption that the major cultural gulf in the Middle Ages was less between the wealthy and the poor than between the learned and the lay, Green explores the church's systematic demonization of fairies and infernalization of fairyland. He argues that when medieval preachers inveighed against the demons that they portrayed as threatening their flocks, they were in reality often waging war against fairy beliefs. The recognition that medieval demonology, and indeed pastoral theology, were packed with coded references to popular lore opens up a whole new avenue for the investigation of medieval vernacular culture. Elf Queens and Holy Friars offers a detailed account of the church's attempts to suppress or redirect belief in such things as fairy lovers, changelings, and alternative versions of the afterlife. That the church took these fairy beliefs so seriously suggests that they were ideologically loaded, and this fact makes a huge difference in the way we read medieval romance, the literary genre that treats them most explicitly. The war on fairy beliefs increased in intensity toward the end of the Middle Ages, becoming finally a significant factor in the witch-hunting of the Renaissance.
Download or read book The Modern Witchcraft Guide to Fairies written by Skye Alexander and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2021-06-15 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Interact with magical fairy folk and incorporate them into your own witchcraft practice with this detailed account of the ancient wisdom and traditions of fairies and witchcraft. Fairies have long been a part of witchcraft traditions, especially Celtic and Norse witchcraft, paganism, and other traditions deeply tied to the earth. But these fairies aren’t the harmless creatures you’ve read about in children’s tales: they are magical creatures with their own culture and rules that you need to know before venturing into their territory. Now you can explore the world of the fairies and how their magic relates to your own witchcraft practice with The Modern Witchcraft Book of Fairies. This book provides you with all the information you need to know about the different types of fae folk and how you can safely interact with them to make the most of your witchcraft practice.
Download or read book God of war King Fairy written by Li Donghao and published by Sellene Chardou. This book was released on with total page 3628 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The people who come here to take risks are either a sect or a temporary team. At worst, they are familiar friends. No one will dare to break into the bloody desert alone like Zhu Linger.
Download or read book WHISPERS OF DEMONIZED SOULS written by Antonia Kattos and published by novum pro Verlag. This book was released on 2016-02-29 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sixteen-year-old April Smith is an everyday high school student living in Wisconsin, USA, whose utterly ordinary life takes a drastic turn at the sound of voices in the night. April is compelled to follow the voices to an inevitable destiny, taking her into an unknown multi-dimensional world where she becomes the Chosen. Two weeks from the end of the world, April's mentor, Peter, is her one constant in guiding and training her to face her fate. He is hiding his own tragic history while also trying to keep April safe. But safe from what? April's journey takes her to the very edge of life itself. The debut novel of Cyprus-born writer, Antonia Kattos, this paranormal novel will be popular with teens and adults alike.
Download or read book Fall in love with the painting fairy written by Xiao Ding and published by Devneybooks. This book was released on with total page 765 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When I was seven years old, although my parents came to the ancient town of Fusheng, here, the folk customs were honest and the people lived and worked in peace and contentment. Every step I took, I looked up and found that everyone passing by me had a smiling face like me.
Download or read book Demon Catcher s Fox Wife written by Xie BuFan and published by Funstory. This book was released on 2019-12-22 with total page 623 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a scholar, Zhang Nan had always wanted to become one of the nine great demon catcher s, whose name resounded throughout the world. However, he had never thought that the difficulty of the great tribulation, which involved ten thousand people in the human world, would have quietly arrived...
