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2) Island witch
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Amara, the daughter of a 19th century Sri Lankan village's demon-priest is accused of witchcraft and must clear her and her father's names after someone or something begins mysteriously attacking men in the jungle"--
Author
Publisher
Yale University Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
xviii, 492 pages : illustrations, 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Accounts of seemingly impossible phenomena abounded in the early modern era-tales of levitation, bilocation, and witchcraft-even as skepticism, atheism, and empirical science were starting to supplant religious belief in the paranormal. In this book, Carlos Eire explores how a culture increasingly devoted to scientific thinking grappled with events deemed impossible by its leading intellectuals. Eire observes how levitating saints and flying witches...
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