Fairies, Demons, and Nature Spirits: 'Small Gods' at the Margins of Christendom Edited by Michael Ostling (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018) Hardcover

Fairies, Demons, and Nature Spirits: 'Small Gods' at the Margins of Christendom Edited by Michael Ostling (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018) HardcoverMichael Ostling, editor. Fairies, Demons, and Nature Spirits: 'Small Gods' at the Margins of Christendom, Palgrave Historical Studies in Witchcraft and Magic. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018. Hardcover edition. 366 pages. Condition: As New Description from the publisher: 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.

and a Common Misunderstanding

The Bathhouse at Midnight

Chapter Nine: Memento Mori

Why do people believe in magic

earthly remnants served as a heavenly connection

Janacek investigates how and why individuals who supported or were actually placed at the traditional center of power in England’s church and state believed in the relevance of alchemy at a time when their society

the phantom army of the night--a theme that still inspires poets

Drawing Down the Moon: Magic in the Ancient Greco-Roman World

and Humberto Maggi

and gives both the form of such fiction and its ideas the attention they deserve

take up the Divine Measures bestowed upon humanity as their servant

The second edition appears thirteen years after the True Grimoire was first published