Demons and the Devil

by Charles Stewart

Book Overview

In present-day Greece many people still speak of exotikNB--mermaids, dog-form creatures, and other monstrous beings similar to those pictured on medieval maps. Challenging the conventional notion that these often malevolent demons belong exclusively to a realm of folklore or superstition separate from Christianity, Charles Stewart looks at beliefs about the exotikNB and the Orthodox Devil to demonstrate the interdependency of doctrinal and local...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691028486
• ISBN13: 9780691028484
• Release Date: September 1991
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 354 Pages
• Weight: 1.14 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.2"