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  • The Exeter Companion to Changeling Lore

    The West Eurasian and Mediterranean Tradition

    Edited by Davide Ermacora, Simon Young ...
    Series series Exeter New Approaches to Legend, Folklore and Popular Belief
    For centuries, people across Europe, North Africa, and the Middle East believed that supernatural beings—fairies, jinn, trolls, or demons—could steal a human child and leave a lookalike in its place. These stories offer fascinating insights into how different cultures made sense of disability, illness, and unexplained transformations.The Exeter Companion to Changeling Lore is the first multi ... Read more

    $125.99 USD

  • The Exeter Companion to Fairies, Nereids, Trolls and other Social Supernatural Beings

    European Traditions

    Edited by Davide Ermacora, Simon Young ...
    Series series Exeter New Approaches to Legend, Folklore and Popular Belief
    Fairies, elves, and other magical beings… they’re so much more than just children’s tales.For centuries, Europeans believed in a parallel supernatural realm inhabited by these beings who lived much like humans in their own communities. This ‘social supernatural’ world mirrored ours with troll weddings, pixy battles, nereid picnics, dwarf migrations, and the like. Social supernatural beings were ... Read more

    $125.99 USD

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  • The Witch

    A History of Fear, from Ancient Times to the Present

    by Ronald Hutton ...
    This "magisterial account" explores the fear of witchcraft across the globe from the ancient world to the notorious witch trials of early modern Europe ( The Guardian, UK).The witch came to prominence—and often a painful death—in early modern Europe, yet her origins are much more geographically diverse and historically deep. In The Witch, historian Ronald Hutton sets the European witch trials in ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • Killing the Dead

    Vampire Epidemics from Mesopotamia to the New World

    by John Blair ...
    A riveting history of vampire panics across cultures and down through the millennia—and why killing the dead is better than killing the livingKilling the Dead provides the first in-depth, global account of one of the world’s most widespread yet misunderstood forms of mass hysteria—the vampire epidemic. In a spellbinding narrative, John Blair takes readers from ancient Mesopotamia to present-day ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • The Irresistible Fairy Tale

    The Cultural and Social History of a Genre

    by Jack Zipes ...
    A provocative new theory about fairy tales from one of the world's leading authoritiesIf there is one genre that has captured the imagination of people in all walks of life throughout the world, it is the fairy tale. Yet we still have great difficulty understanding how it originated, evolved, and spread—or why so many people cannot resist its appeal, no matter how it changes or what form it takes. ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • The Library at Night

    by Alberto Manguel ...
    Inspired by the process of creating a library for his fifteenth-century home near the Loire, in France, Alberto Manguel, the acclaimed writer on books and reading, has taken up the subject of libraries. “Libraries,” he says, “have always seemed to me pleasantly mad places, and for as long as I can remember I’ve been seduced by their labyrinthine logic.” In this personal, deliberately unsystematic, ... Read more

    $12.29 USD

  • Fairy Tale

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Marina Warner ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    From wicked queens, beautiful princesses, elves, monsters, and goblins, to giants, glass slippers, poisoned apples, magic keys, and mirrors, the characters and images of fairy tales have cast a spell over readers and audiences, both adults and children, for centuries. These fantastic stories have travelled across cultural borders, and been passed on from generation to generation, ever-changing, ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • The Oxford Illustrated History of Witchcraft and Magic

    Edited by Owen Davies ...
    This richly illustrated history provides a readable and fresh approach to the extensive and complex story of witchcraft and magic. Telling the story from the dawn of writing in the ancient world to the globally successful Harry Potter films, the authors explore a wide range of magical beliefs and practices, the rise of the witch trials, and the depiction of the Devil-worshipping witch. The book ... Read more

    $18.09 USD

  • The Agency of Things in Medieval and Early Modern Art

    Materials, Power and Manipulation

    Edited by Grażyna Jurkowlaniec, Ika Matyjaszkiewicz, Zuzanna Sarnecka ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Art History
    This volume explores the late medieval and early modern periods from the perspective of objects. While the agency of things has been studied in anthropology and archaeology, it is an innovative approach for art historical investigations. Each contributor takes as a point of departure active things: objects that were collected, exchanged, held in hand, carried on a body, assembled, cared for or ... Read more

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  • The Oxford History of Witchcraft and Magic

    Edited by Owen Davies ...
    Series series The Oxford History of...
    Histories you can trust. This history provides a readable and fresh approach to the extensive and complex story of witchcraft and magic. Telling the story from the dawn of writing in the ancient world to the globally successful Harry Potter films, the authors explore a wide range of magical beliefs and practices, the rise of the witch trials, and the depiction of the Devil-worshipping witch. The ... Read more

    $18.09 USD

  • Phantom Armies of the Night

    The Wild Hunt and the Ghostly Processions of the Undead

    by Claude Lecouteux ...
    An exploration of the many forms of the ancient myth of the Wild Hunt and its influence in pagan and early Christian Europe• Recounts the myriad variations of this legend, from the Cursed Huntsman and King Herla to phantom armies and vast processions of sinners and demons• Explains how this belief was an integral part of the pagan worldview and was thus employed by the church to spread Christian ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • The Oxford Companion to Fairy Tales

    Edited by Jack Zipes ...
    Series series Oxford Companions
    In over 1,000 entries, this acclaimed Companion covers all aspects of the Western fairy tale tradition, from medieval to modern, under the guidance of Professor Jack Zipes. It provides an authoritative reference source for this complex and captivating genre, exploring the tales themselves, the writers who wrote and reworked them, and the artists who illustrated them. It also covers numerous ... Read more

    $36.89 USD