Author: Gillian Bennett
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
Drawing on modern field research among elderly women in England and historical research in supernatural traditions, Gillian Bennett offers a clear and thought-provoking discussion of the vigorous survival, nature, and patterns of belief in the supernatural. Focusing on contact with the dead, which was especially emphasized and recounted by her informants, Bennett discusses the role of bereavement in these occurrences, examines how and why narratives are employed to account for personal experiences, and looks at case studies in the history of ghosts and visitations. Book jacket.
Alas Poor Ghost
Author: Gillian Bennett
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
Drawing on modern field research among elderly women in England and historical research in supernatural traditions, Gillian Bennett offers a clear and thought-provoking discussion of the vigorous survival, nature, and patterns of belief in the supernatural. Focusing on contact with the dead, which was especially emphasized and recounted by her informants, Bennett discusses the role of bereavement in these occurrences, examines how and why narratives are employed to account for personal experiences, and looks at case studies in the history of ghosts and visitations. Book jacket.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
Drawing on modern field research among elderly women in England and historical research in supernatural traditions, Gillian Bennett offers a clear and thought-provoking discussion of the vigorous survival, nature, and patterns of belief in the supernatural. Focusing on contact with the dead, which was especially emphasized and recounted by her informants, Bennett discusses the role of bereavement in these occurrences, examines how and why narratives are employed to account for personal experiences, and looks at case studies in the history of ghosts and visitations. Book jacket.
Traditions of Belief
Author: Gillian Bennett
Publisher: Penguin Group
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 246
Book Description
Publisher: Penguin Group
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 246
Book Description
The Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare
Author: William Shakespeare
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 902
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 902
Book Description
Works, Complete
Author: William Shakespeare
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1034
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1034
Book Description
Dramatic Works from the Text of Johnson and Stevens
Author: William Shakespeare
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1100
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1100
Book Description
The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare
Author: William Shakespeare
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 900
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 900
Book Description
The Complete Works of William Shakspeare: with Dr. Johnson's Preface
Author: William Shakespeare
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1126
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1126
Book Description
The Works of William Shakespeare, Complete. Accurately Printed from the Text of the Corrected Copy Left by the Late G. Steevens, Esq. With a Memoir by A. Chalmers. [With Portrait and Illustrations.]
Author: William Shakespeare
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1016
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1016
Book Description
The Comedies, Histories and Tragedies of Shakespeare. [With Engravings After Designs by T. Stothard and Others.]
Author: William Shakespeare
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 878
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 878
Book Description
The Belief in Inmortality and the Worship of the Dead
Author: J.G Frazer
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3752312912
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 366
Book Description
Reproduction of the original: The Belief in Inmortality and the Worship of the Dead by J.G Frazer
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3752312912
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 366
Book Description
Reproduction of the original: The Belief in Inmortality and the Worship of the Dead by J.G Frazer