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Contents 7 Editors and Contributors 10 List of Figures 14 Chapter 1 Introduction: Where’ve All the Good People Gone? 15 Introduction 15 What Is a “Small God”? 18 Vanishing 25 Survival 29 Variations on a Goblin Theme 36 Negative Cults 37 “Crypto-Paganism” and “Fairy Cults” 40 Neutralization and Naturalization 46 Superstition 49 Re-enchantment 53 Conclusions 54 Bibliography 57 Part I Demonization and its Discontents 68 Chapter 2 The Threat of Headless Beings: Constructing the Demonic in Christian Egypt 69 Introduction 69 Scribality and Demonological Authority 72 Akephalos Theos 74 The Demons in Egyptian Christian Apotropaic and Aggressive Charms 77 Recalling Old Gods in Christian Culture 80 On Epithets and Scribal Experts 83 Conclusions 85 Bibliography 87 Chapter 3 Secrets of the Síd: The Supernatural in Medieval Irish Texts 91 How to Find the Síd 95 Temair: Christianizing the Síd 98 Secrets of the Síd 105 The Disappearing Síd 108 Bibliography 110 Chapter 4 The Good, the Bad and the Unholy: Ambivalent Angels in the Middle Ages 114 Bibliography 131 Chapter 5 Between Fallen Angels and Nature Spirits: Russian Demonology of the Early Modern Period 134 Bodiless or Material? The Demon

Author

Ostling, Michael;

Language

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