Daemonology
PUBLIC DOMAINThe Devil in Britain and America
- Original publication
- 1896
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 214
- File size
- 545.3 KB
Ashton follows the Devil through sermons, trials, folklore and popular images, preserving the shifting masks worn by evil across Britain and colonial America.
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John Ashton’s illustrated 1896 history traces representations of the Devil through British and American religion, witch trials, possession narratives, pamphlets and popular folklore. Working as an antiquarian rather than a modern historian, he reproduces strange cases and images that shaped the public imagination of evil. The book reveals how a theological adversary became a cultural character appearing in courtrooms, households and printed streets. Across its pages, the same shadow changes costume but never entirely leaves the stage.
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Late nineteenth-century British antiquarianism
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