Demons and Spirits of the Land: Ancestral Lore and Practices by Claude Lecouteux EPUB

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Demons and Spirits of the Land: Ancestral Lore and Practices by Claude Lecouteux EPUB

From the author's foreword:

"Studying the relations that our remote ancestors maintained with their environment is one means of better understanding humanity, for we are inscribed within history like links of a chain, and if we want to understand our world and that of our ancestors, we have to look back."

Lecouteux takes a studied look at the appearance of similar creatures (dragons, fairies, goblins, etc) across cultures, the collective consciousness that binds them all to the people and land they inhabit, and the way sacred spaces are marked, contracted, and conquered by mankind.

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