Cock Lane and Common-Sense Paperback / softback
by ANDREW LANG
Part of the Cambridge Library Collection - Spiritualism and Esoteric Knowledge series
Paperback / softback
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Written by folklorist Andrew Lang (1844–1912), this 1894 publication examines the ambivalent relationship the living have attempted to forge with the dead throughout history.
Nicknamed 'the Wizard of St Andrews', this prolific polymath also worked as an anthropologist, classicist, historian, poet, mythologist, essayist and journalist, producing over a hundred publications in his lifetime.
Largely ignored by scholarship, this book suggests expanding the study of folklore to include contemporary narratives of supernatural events.
Taking its title from the legends of the notorious Cock Lane ghost, the work considers the survival of ancient beliefs such as hauntings, clairvoyance, and other phenomena believed to transcend the laws of nature, and how such beliefs have persisted through great social upheaval and change.
It includes chapters on savage and ancient spiritualism, comparative psychical research, haunted houses, second sight, crystal gazing, and Presbyterian ghost hunters, among others.
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- Pages:380 pages, Worked examples or Exercises
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:19/05/2011
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- ISBN:9781108072687
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:380 pages, Worked examples or Exercises
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:19/05/2011
- Category:
- ISBN:9781108072687
