Evil Incarnate
Subtitle: Rumors of Demonic Conspiracy and Satanic Abuse in History
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: May 20, 2008
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9780691136295
Subjects: Geography; General; History; Sociology; World History / Comparative History; Religion; Religion - Commentaries / Reference
First sentence: BASQUE VILLAGERS of the sixteenth century had always known that some people could be malevolent, dangerous; and they had long speculated on how such people perverted human custom and brought catastrophe down on their neighbors, how they got their powers to strike ill, what made them different.