Raising Spirits E-Book

J. Barry

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

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2013

Beschreibung

Despite supernatural scepticism, stories about spirits were regularly printed and shared throughout the 18th and 19th centuries. This case-study in the transmission of a single story (of a young gunsmith near Bristol conjuring spirits, leading to his early death) reveals both how and why successive generations found meaning in such accounts.