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The Penguin Book of the Undead (Paperback)
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The Penguin Book of the Undead (Paperback)
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List price R320
Loot Price R250
Discovery Miles 2 500
You Save R70 (22%)
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Since ancient times, accounts of supernatural activity have
mystified us. Ghost stories as we know them did not develop until
the late nineteenth century, but the restless dead haunted the
premodern imagination in many forms, as recorded in historical
narratives, theological texts, and personal letters. The Penguin
Book of the Undead teems with roving hordes of dead warriors,
corpses trailed by packs of barking dogs, moaning phantoms haunting
deserted ruins, evil spirits emerging from burning carcasses in the
form of crows, and zombies with pestilential breath. Spanning from
the Hebrew scriptures to the Roman Empire, the Scandinavian sagas
to medieval Europe, the Protestant Reformation to the Renaissance,
this beguiling array of accounts charts our relationship with
spirits and apparitions, wraiths and demons over fifteen hundred
years, showing the evolution in our thinking about the ability of
dead souls to return to the realm of the living--and to warn us
about what awaits us in the afterlife.
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