Magic Tales and Fairy Tale Magic E-Book

R. Bottigheimer

• Herausgeber: Palgrave Macmillan UK
• Kategorie: Religion und Spiritualität
• Serie: Palgrave Historical Studies in Witchcraft and Magic
• Sprache: Englisch

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2014

Beschreibung

This book examines magic's generally maleficent effect on humans from ancient Egypt through the Middle Ages, including tales from classical mythology, Jewish, Christian, and Muslim cultures. It shows that certain magical motifs lived on from age to age, but that it took until the Italian Renaissance for magic tales to become fairy tales.