Author: André Cajun
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Category : African American tales
Languages : en
Pages : 56

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Author: John H. Elliott
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 1498230725
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 243

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This first full-scale study of the Evil Eye in the Bible and the biblical communities has traced in four volumes evidence of Evil Eye belief and practice in the ancient world from Mesopotamia (c. 3000 BCE) to Late Roman Antiquity (c. 600 CE). The fourth and final volume considers the literary and material evidence of the unabated thriving of Evil Eye belief and practice in Israel following the destruction of the Jerusalem temple in 70 CE (chapter 1) and in early Christianity (chapter 2) through Late Antiquity (500-600 CE), with a brief reference to Evil Eye lore in early Islam. Numerous cross-references relate the subject matter of this volume to that of the previous three. A concluding Epilogue (chapter 3) offers some final thoughts on this survey of Evil Eye belief and practice in antiquity and their role in conceptualizing and combatting the pernicious forces of evil in daily life. Beside presenting the first full-scale monograph on the Evil Eye in the Bible and the biblical communities (volumes 3 and 4), the volumes summarize a century of research since the milestone two-volume study of Siegfried Seligmann, Der bose Blick und Verwandtes (1910), and they describe the ecological, historical, social, and cultural contexts within which the biblical texts are best understood. Throughout the study, the Evil Eye in antiquity is treated not as an instance of vulgar superstition or deluded magic, but as a physiological, psychological, and moral phenomenon whose operation was deemed explicable on rational grounds.

Author: Chloe Rhodes
Publisher: Michael O'Mara
ISBN: 1843179164
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 216

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This book illuminates the customs, beliefs and practices that link us to an ancient, and often darker, human past.

Author: Library of Congress. Copyright Office
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1168

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Author: Caroline Senter
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Category : Hoodoo (Cult)
Languages : en
Pages : 206

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Author: Jeff Strand
Publisher: Sourcebooks, Inc.
ISBN: 1402266812
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 202

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When your best friend is just a tiny bit psychotic, you should never actually believe him when he says, "Trust me. This is gonna be awesome." Of course, you probably wouldn't believe a voodoo doll could work either. Or that it could cause someone's leg to blow clean off with one quick prick. But I've seen it. It can happen. And when there's suddenly a doll of YOU floating around out there—a doll that could be snatched by a Rottweiler and torn to shreds, or a gang of thugs ready to torch it, or any random family of cannibals (really, do you need the danger here spelled out for you?)—well, you know that's just gonna be a really bad day ... "Jeff Strand is hilariously funny and truly deranged." —Christopher Golden, author of When Rose Wakes

Author: Jeff Strand
Publisher: Sourcebooks, Inc.
ISBN: 1402266820
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 266

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When your best friend is just a tiny bit psychotic, you should never actually believe him when he says, "Trust me. This is gonna be awesome." Of course, you probably wouldn't believe a voodoo doll could work either. Or that it could cause someone's leg to blow clean off with one quick prick. But I've seen it. It can happen. And when there's suddenly a doll of YOU floating around out there—a doll that could be snatched by a Rottweiler and torn to shreds, or a gang of thugs ready to torch it, or any random family of cannibals (really, do you need the danger here spelled out for you?)—well, you know that's just gonna be a really bad day ... "Jeff Strand is hilariously funny and truly deranged." —Christopher Golden, author of When Rose Wakes

Author: Carter Godwin Woodson
Publisher:
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Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 552

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The scope of the Journal include the broad range of the study of Afro-American life and history.

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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1262

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Category : Union catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 712

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