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Fairies, demons and nature spirits

"small gods" at the margins of Christendom

by Michael Ostling

  • First published:
  • 21st century
  • Language: English

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None of the 1 source behind this record supplied a summary of Fairies, demons and nature spirits (2018). What the catalog does say:

Traditions: Demonology, angelology, and possession, Spiritualism, mediumship, and channeling, Legendary beings and transformations

Subjects: Spiritualism, Demonology, Religious aspects, Fairies, Mythology, Djöflatrú, Nature, Spíritismi

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Included because retained bibliographic metadata links this work to Demonology, angelology, and possession, Legendary beings and transformations, and Spiritualism, mediumship, and channeling.

  • Controlled discovery queries from gegnir matched “Djöflar”. Retained metadata contains “demons” in the title, “Demonology” in the subject metadata, “demons” in the edition title, and 3 additional metadata match(es).

    • Djöflar· via Gegnir/Leitir — Icelandic Union Catalogue
    • demons· in title
    • Demonology· in subject
    • demons· in edition title
    • Angels· in edition notes
    • Demonology· in edition notes
  • Retained metadata contains “Spiritualism” in the subject metadata.

    • Spiritualism· in subject
  • Retained metadata contains “Fairies” in the title, “Fairies” in the subject metadata, “Fairies” in the edition title, and 1 additional metadata match(es).

    • Fairies· in title
    • Fairies· in subject
    • Fairies· in edition title
    • Fairies· in edition notes

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"small gods" at the margins of Christendom

Gegnir Icelandic union-catalog record

22 sm; Dewey classification: 133.14; Index: bls. 357-366; myndir; Palgrave historical studies in witchcraft and magic; Publication place: London; Where've all the good people gone? / Michael Ostling -- The threat of headless beings: constructing the demonic in Christian Egypt / David Frankfurter -- Secrets of the síd: the supernatural in Medieval Irish texts / Lisa Bitel -- The good, the bad, and the unholy: ambivalent angels in the Middle Ages / Coree Newman -- Between fallen angels and nature spirits: Russian demonology of the early Modern Period / Dmitriy Antonov -- Crisis at the border: Amazonian relations with spirits and others / Artionka Capiberibe -- Between humans and angels: scientific uses for fairies in early Modern Scotland / Julian Goodare -- The álfar, the clerics, and the enlightenment: conceptions of the supernatural in the Age of Reason in Iceland / Terry Gunnell -- The devil and the spirit world in nineteenth-century Estonia: from Christianization to folklorization / Ülo Valk -- Dreaming of snakes in contemporary Zambia: small gods and the secular / Johanneke Kroesbergen-Kamps -- Small gods, small demons: remnants of an archaic fairy cult in Central and South-Eastern Europe / Éva Pócs -- Who owns the world? Recognizing the repressed small gods of Southeast Asia / Lorraine V. Aragon -- Spirits, Christians and capitalists in the rainforests of Papua New Guinea / Michael Wood -- "Reconnecting to everything:" fairies in contemporary paganism / Sabina Magliocco -- Afterword / Ronald Hutton; xv, 366 bls

[2018]Palgrave MacmillanEnglish
  • 9781137585196
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