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The Penguin Book of Demons

ISBN: 9780143137863 ISBN: 9780143137863

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Three thousand years of encounters with malevolent beings that have invaded our waking lives and our nightmares.

For millennia, societies have told tales of their fears incarnate — otherworldly couriers of plague, death, temptation, and moral decline. The Penguin Book of Demons summons these supernatural creatures — and the humans who have hunted and been haunted by them — across cultures and continents: the daemons of ancient Greece and Rome; the giant, biblical half humans known as Nephilim who stalked the earth before the Great Flood; corrupted angels, condemned to eternity in Hell; the jinn of Islamic Arabia; the female, child-eating Gelloudes of Byzantium; the seductive incubi and succubi of northern Europe; the animal spirits of early modern China; and the cannibalistic Wendigo of Native American folklore.

From demonic possession to black magic, these accounts give life to a spellbinding, skin-crawling history of the paranormal.


Paperback
368 pages
19.5 x 12.9cm

Format: Hardcover

Dimensions: 20cm x 15cm x 1 cm

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