Worlds of Fear and Wonder: Living with the Supernatural, Past and Present

by Malcolm Gaskill

Haunting stories of our enduring emotional ties to the supernatural, from medieval ghosts and early modern witches to twentieth-century mediums and contemporary horror. The supernatural has ever been a part of human existence. Medieval Christians saw miracles in the lives of saints and put faith in savants who spoke with the dead. For later Catholics and Protestants, the spiritual realm remained charged with divine and diabolic forces, but so was the mundane, where witches and conjurers, rotten

ISBN: 9780674307889

336 pages

Published: 2026-10-27

Publisher: Belknap Press: An Imprint of Harvard University Press

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