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Claude Lecouteux

The Return of the Dead

Ghosts, Ancestors, and the Transparent Veil of the Pagan Mind

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How the ghost stories of pagan times reveal the seamless union existing between the world of the living and the afterlife • Demonstrates how Medieval Christianity transformed the more corporeal ghost encountered in pagan cultures with the disembodied form known today • Explains how the returning dead were once viewed as either troublemakers or guarantors of the social order The impermeable border the modern world sees existing between the world of the living and the afterlife was not visible to our ancestors. The dead could--and did--cross back and forth at will. The pagan mind had no fear of death, but some of the dead were definitely to… Mehr

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Produktdetails


  • ISBN: 978-1-59477-683-0
  • EAN: 9781594776830
  • Produktnummer: 23529792
  • Verlag: Simon + Schuster Inc.
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2009
  • Seitenangabe: 288 S.
  • Plattform: EPUB
  • Masse: 1'980 KB
  • Abbildungen: 9 b&w illustrations

Über den Autor


Claude Lecouteux is a former professor of medieval literature and civilization at the Sorbonne. He is the author of numerous books on medieval and pagan afterlife beliefs and magic, including The Book of Grimoires, Dictionary of Ancient Magic Words and Spells, and The Tradition of Household Spirits. He lives in Paris.

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