The Penguin Book of Demons - Bruce Scott G.

For millennia, societies have told tales of their fears incarnate – otherworldly couriers of plague, death, temptation and moral decline. Drawing from three thousand years of religious traditions and world literature, The Penguin Book of Demons follows these supernatural creatures – and the humans who have hunted and been haunted by them – through accounts across cultures and continents, including:

the daimones of ancient Greece and Rome;

the giant, biblical half humans known as Nephilim who stalked the earth before the Great Flood;

corrupted angels, condemned to eternity in Hell;

the djinn of Islamic Arabia;

the female, child-eating gelloudes of Byzantium;

the seductive incubi and succubi of northern Europe;

the animal spirits of early modern China;

and the cannibalistic wendigo of Native American folklore.

From demonic possession to black magic, these accounts give life to a spellbinding, skin-crawling history of the paranormal.