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Dæmons are forever : contacts and exchanges in the Eurasian pandemonium / David Gordon White.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- White, David Gordon, author.
- Series:
- Silk roads.
- Chicago scholarship online.
- Silk roads
- Chicago scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Demonology--History.
- Demonology.
- Mythology, Indo-European.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (350 pages) : illustrations.
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2021.
- Summary:
- A richly illustrated tapestry of interwoven studies spanning some six thousand years of history, 'Dæmons Are Forever' is at once a record of archaic contacts and transactions between humans and protean spirit beings - dæmons - and an account of exchanges, among human populations, of the science of spirit beings: dæmonology.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Abbreviations
- Note on Translations
- 1. Dæmon-ology
- 2. Of Filth and Phylacteries
- 3. Technologies, East and West
- 4. Medieval and Modern Child Abductions
- 5. Odysseus in Taprobane
- 6. Perilous Fountains
- 7. Imagining a Connected History of Religions
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- References
- Index
- Notes:
- Also issued in print: 2021.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on August 13, 2021).
- ISBN:
- 0-226-71506-X
- OCLC:
- 1257337225
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