Download or read book Demon Lovers written by Walter Stephens and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2003-08-15 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Demon Lovers and Their Victims in British Fiction written by Toni Reed and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2021-10-21 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book The Demon Lover written by Juliet Dark and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2011-12-27 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I gasped, or tried to. My mouth opened, but I couldn’t draw breath. His lips, pearly wet, parted and he blew into my mouth. My lungs expanded beneath his weight. When I exhaled he sucked my breath in and his weight turned from cold marble into warm living flesh. Since accepting a teaching position at remote Fairwick College in upstate New York, Callie McFay has experienced the same disturbingly sensual dream every night: A mist enters her bedroom, then takes the shape of a virile, seductive stranger who proceeds to ravish her in the most toe-curling, wholly satisfying ways possible. Perhaps these dreams are the result of her having written the bestselling book The Sex Lives of Demon Lovers. Callie’s lifelong passion is the intersection of lurid fairy tales and Gothic literature—which is why she’s found herself at Fairwick’s renowned folklore department, living in a once-stately Victorian house that, at first sight, seemed to call her name. But Callie soon realizes that her dreams are alarmingly real. She has a demon lover—an incubus—and he will seduce her, pleasure her, and eventually suck the very life from her. Then Callie makes another startling discovery: Her incubus is not the only mythical creature in Fairwick. As the tenured witches of the college and the resident fairies in the surrounding woods prepare to cast out the demon, Callie must accomplish something infinitely more difficult—banishing this supernatural lover from her heart. “Vivid and enchanting . . . Dark’s letter-perfect gothic style is a satisfying tribute to previous gothic novels, and the paranormal elements, including incubi, fae, vampires, and witches, make this a stellar romance.”—Booklist (Top 10 SF/Fantasy) “[Juliet] Dark develops a complex, detailed world where magic, reason, and gothic literature enjoyably intersect.”—Publishers Weekly
Download or read book Demon Lovers and Their Victims in British Fiction written by Toni Reed and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2014-07-11 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Incubus written by Carol Goodman and published by Random House. This book was released on 2011 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Secret Monsters written by Lacey Carter Andersen and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2020-11-20 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I screwed up.Every demon hunter knows the rules. The most important of which is to never leave a personal object in a demon realm. But somehow, I did. That means the demons who found my ring own me. They can use me. They can command me. I'm at their mercy.But what if everything I've ever known about demons is wrong? And what if I'll need three sinfully sexy demons at my side, or else fall to an enemy I never imagined?SECRET MONSTERS is a steamy paranormal reverse harem romance. It has sexy demons, a tough demon hunter, and a mysterious enemy. But be warned, this book might make you wish for possessive demons of your own. (This book was previously released as Renegade Hunter.)
Download or read book Demon Lover written by Bonnie Dee and published by Samhain Publishing. This book was released on 2011-03 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rumplestiltskin is "not" his name--and this hunk's no gnarled old goblin, in this second novel of Fairytale Fantasies.
Download or read book Demon Lover written by Heather Guerre and published by . This book was released on 2020-04-09 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Autumn isn't supposed to know that the incubus who visits her dreams every night is real. But when she wakes up in the middle of the night to find the demon Irdu in her bed, she surprises them both by inviting him to stay. What starts as an arrangement of convenience soon turns into something much deeper. But loving a demon comes at a steep price. An incubus is bound in service to the Underworld, and the only way for Autumn to free him is to pay with her soul. The deeper she falls in love, the closer she comes to damnation. With the Underworld in turmoil and the fate of their love on the line, Autumn and Irdu might have a chance to be together--or lose each other forever.
Download or read book Of Love and Other Demons written by Gabriel García Márquez and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2014-10-15 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: AVAILABLE FOR THE FIRST TIME IN eBOOK! On her twelfth birthday, Sierva Maria – the only child of a decaying noble family in an eighteenth-century South American seaport – is bitten by a rabid dog. Believed to be possessed, she is brought to a convent for observation. And into her cell stumbles Father Cayetano Delaura, who has already dreamed about a girl with hair trailing after her like a bridal train. As he tends to her with holy water and sacramental oils, Delaura feels something shocking begin to occur. He has fallen in love – and it is not long until Sierva Maria joins him in his fevered misery. Unsettling and indelible, Of Love and Other Demons is an evocative, majestic tale of the most universal experiences known to woman and man.
Download or read book That Time I Got Drunk and Saved a Demon written by Kimberly Lemming and published by Orbit. This book was released on 2023-05-23 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spice trader Cinnamon’s quiet life is turned upside down when she ends up on a quest with a fiery demon, in this irreverently quirky rom-com fantasy that is sweet, steamy, and funny as hell. All she wanted to do was live her life in peace—maybe get a cat, expand the family spice farm. Really, anything that didn’t involve going on an adventure where an orc might rip her face off. But they say the goddess has favorites, and if so, Cin is clearly not one of them. After Cin saves the demon Fallon in a wine-drunk stupor, Fallon reveals that all he really wants to do is kill an evil witch enslaving his people. And who can blame him? But now he’s dragging Cinnamon along for the ride whether she likes it or not. On the bright side, at least he keeps burning off his shirt.…
Download or read book The Demon Lover written by Juliet Dark and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2011-12-27 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I gasped, or tried to. My mouth opened, but I couldn’t draw breath. His lips, pearly wet, parted and he blew into my mouth. My lungs expanded beneath his weight. When I exhaled he sucked my breath in and his weight turned from cold marble into warm living flesh. Since accepting a teaching position at remote Fairwick College in upstate New York, Callie McFay has experienced the same disturbingly sensual dream every night: A mist enters her bedroom, then takes the shape of a virile, seductive stranger who proceeds to ravish her in the most toe-curling, wholly satisfying ways possible. Perhaps these dreams are the result of her having written the bestselling book The Sex Lives of Demon Lovers. Callie’s lifelong passion is the intersection of lurid fairy tales and Gothic literature—which is why she’s found herself at Fairwick’s renowned folklore department, living in a once-stately Victorian house that, at first sight, seemed to call her name. But Callie soon realizes that her dreams are alarmingly real. She has a demon lover—an incubus—and he will seduce her, pleasure her, and eventually suck the very life from her. Then Callie makes another startling discovery: Her incubus is not the only mythical creature in Fairwick. As the tenured witches of the college and the resident fairies in the surrounding woods prepare to cast out the demon, Callie must accomplish something infinitely more difficult—banishing this supernatural lover from her heart. “Vivid and enchanting . . . Dark’s letter-perfect gothic style is a satisfying tribute to previous gothic novels, and the paranormal elements, including incubi, fae, vampires, and witches, make this a stellar romance.”—Booklist (Top 10 SF/Fantasy) “[Juliet] Dark develops a complex, detailed world where magic, reason, and gothic literature enjoyably intersect.”—Publishers Weekly
Download or read book The Compulsion to Create written by Susan Kavaler-Adler and published by . This book was released on 2013-07-01 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Compulsion to Create: Women Writers and Their Demon Lovers is a fascinating and informative psychological survey of women and the literature they create, especially as reflected by the lives and work of such luminaries as Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Emily Dickinson, Anais Nin, Sylvia Plath, and Edith Sitwell. The reader is treated to such issues as compulsion versus reparation, developmental mourning and creative-process reparation, creative women and the "internal father," and the "demon-lover" theme as literary myth and psychodynamic complex. A highly recommended addition to women's studies, literary studies, and psychological studies supplemental reading lists, "The Compulsion to Create" is original, revealing, insightful, challenging, at times iconoclastic, and always entertaining.
Download or read book The Demon Lover written by Robin Morgan and published by W. W. Norton. This book was released on 1990 with total page 395 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A frightening, but ultimately affirmative, look at cultural links between beauty and death, terror and sexuality. . . . Morgan builds a convincing case".--Kirkus Reviews. "Brings a startling perspective to terrorism, which she sees as arising out of patriarchal societies' emphasis on power, control, domination and violence".--Publishers Weekly.
Download or read book The Literature of Love written by Mary Ward and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2009-05-14 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Critical introductions to a range of literary topics and genres. The Literature of Love is designed to introduce students to one of the central themes in literature. Focusing first on different types and aspects of love - physical, emotional, spiritual - it then offers a chronological coverage, aiming to illustrate ways in which attitudes to the representation of love in literature have evolved from Chaucer to the present time. Other sections of the book examine particular genres such as the love sonnet, the love letter and 'romantic' fiction; and the differing reception of this literature over time is also considered. The book includes extracts from a range of authors.
Download or read book Dark Powers written by Lacey Carter Andersen and published by . This book was released on 2021-02-02 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We're losing.Innocents are dying. My demons are in danger.And the only way to help them is to find a safe place that even the angels don't know about.But does such a place even exist?There's a battle at hand. A battle between good and evil.I have to find a way to win against impossible odds.I'm willing to die to change the world. But what if my demons are the ones who will pay for my cause?DARK POWERS is a steamy paranormal reverse harem romance. It has sexy demons, a tough demon hunter, and a mysterious enemy. But be warned, this book might make you wish for possessive demons of your own. (This book was previously released as Betrayed Hunter.)
Download or read book Demon Love Spell Vol 6 written by Mayu Shinjo and published by VIZ Media LLC. This book was released on 2014-07-01 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shrine maiden Miko has sealed the powers of the sexy incubus Kagura, who has vowed to protect her. Kagura has been losing his powers ever since Miko’s father cast a spell to prevent Kagura and Miko from making love. The spell must be broken for Kagura to survive, but will Miko’s father relent? -- VIZ Media
Download or read book To Win a Demon s Love written by Nadine Mutas and published by Nadine Mutas. This book was released on with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Continue reading the award-winning Love and Magic series with this sexy paranormal romance, and enjoy a world of dangerous seduction, witty banter, and enemies-to-lovers happily ever afters! He’ll show her that the dark side has more to offer than just cookies… Fighting demons is what witch Lily Murray does … until the night a weird dark magic spell turns her into a demon herself with the unfortunate urge to kill her loved ones. In a panic, she runs – right into a sexy male of her new demon species. He’s more than happy to help her out and show her the ropes. He’s also decidedly too gorgeous to handle. Lily is Alek’s idea of the perfect mate, and he’d do anything for her. Except help her turn back into a witch, that is. Because if she does, they can’t mate. She just needs a reason to stay a demon, and he’ll be damned if he doesn't give her one. So while he proposes to help her, he’s putting his plan in motion. Because the Dark Side has more to offer than just cookies. If you love sizzling hot enemies-to-lovers paranormal romance with a determined hero-in-pursuit, a snarky heroine, and lots of hilarious banter, this book is for you! ***This book was previously published as Blood, Breath, and Desire.*** KEYWORDS: SEXY PARANORMAL ROMANCE, ENEMIES TO LOVERS, STEAMY DEMON ROMANCE, FOUND FAMILY, ALPHA MALE, STRONG HEROINE, GUARANTEED HEA, NO CLIFFHANGERS, FUNNY ROMANCE, LAUGH OUT LOUD, SNARKY HERO, FUNNY HEROINE, HAPPILY EVER AFTER, HOT WITCH ROMANCE, STANDALONE
