"Quite an interesting book... " --Religious Studies Review
"It is by far superior to anything else on demons we have seen in the past few years." --The American Rationalist
..". Goodman is to be commended for a stimulating and wide-reaching treatment of a compelling and much-debated subject." --Journal of Folklore Research
Rich in detail derived from the author's fieldwork and the anthropological literature, this work paints a picture of possession as one of the usually positive and most widespread of human religious experiences. It also details the ritual of exorcism,...
"Quite an interesting book... " --Religious Studies Review
"It is by far superior to anything else on demons we have seen in the past few yea...
"This book shows how folklore-magic, miracles, and tales of enchanted princesses and genial giants-is still alive and well in the modern mass media. . . . contains a wealth of facts and observations with which to conjure." -Journal of Communication "Degh brings her decades of expertise in folk narrative to bear in this well-researched, provocative study of the interrelationship between traditional processes of folk narrative performances and modern mass media. . . . Highly recommended . . . " -Choice "Spanning folk cultural developments as old as feudalism and as new as today's TV ad,...
"This book shows how folklore-magic, miracles, and tales of enchanted princesses and genial giants-is still alive and well in the modern mass media. ....
