The Penguin Book Of Demons by Scott G. Bruce
A wide-ranging anthology of primary sources and interpretive notes tracing how cultures and eras have imagined, named, and confronted demonic beings: collecting religious texts, folklore, trial and possession accounts, poetry, and fiction that reveal theological debates, folk beliefs, medical and legal responses, and literary treatments of evil, temptation, and otherness; the selections and introductions illuminate continuities and shifts in demonologies from antiquity to the modern period and show how demons have served as explanations for misfortune, models for moral concern, and mirrors of social anxieties.
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