Project Gutenberg 2012-08-29 Public domain in the USA. 97 Radcliffe, John Netten 1826 1884 11006876 Fiends, Ghosts, and Sprites Including an Account of the Origin and Nature of Belief in the Supernatural Produced by Robert Cicconetti, Jennifer Linklater and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/Canadian Libraries) "Fiends, Ghosts, and Sprites" by John Netten Radcliffe is a scholarly work written in the mid-19th century. This text delves into the origins and nature of belief in the supernatural, exploring how such beliefs have evolved across different cultures and eras. It mainly discusses various entities such as gods, fiends, and spirits in different mythologies, tracing their connections to human emotions and the natural world. The opening of the book introduces the foundational ideas behind humanity's belief in supernatural powers. Radcliffe describes how these beliefs are intertwined with human emotions and reason, suggesting that the need to explain natural phenomena has led to the formation of various mythologies. He presents the notion that as humanity has advanced, the conception of the divine has evolved, leading to the personification of nature's forces into deities and spirits. The author sets the stage for a comprehensive analysis of mythological frameworks from a variety of cultures, providing insights into how ancient traditions have shaped modern views of the supernatural. (This is an automatically generated summary.) en Mythology Supernatural BF Text Browsing: Philosophy & Ethics Browsing: Psychiatry/Psychology Browsing: Religion/Spirituality/Paranormal 453913 453922 2024-09-17T07:14:56.059629 2023-09-17T15:22:08.657467 text/html text/html 459266 2021-01-25T14:47:03 text/html; charset=utf-8 162469 2021-01-25T14:47:03 text/html; charset=utf-8 application/zip 226216 2024-09-17T07:15:04.832544 application/epub+zip 231176 2024-09-17T07:14:58.306588 application/epub+zip 231176 2024-09-17T07:14:57.049611 application/epub+zip 400401 2024-09-17T07:15:09.195512 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 391577 2024-09-17T07:15:03.705551 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 412927 2022-09-18T15:13:42.766035 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 391155 2024-09-17T07:14:55.055593 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 391205 2012-08-29T14:22:58 text/plain; charset=utf-8 148707 2012-08-29T14:23:14 text/plain; charset=utf-8 application/zip 391078 2012-08-29T14:23:12 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 148516 2012-08-29T14:23:14 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 391129 2012-08-29T14:23:12 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 148399 2012-08-29T14:23:14 text/plain; charset=us-ascii application/zip 21690 2024-09-17T07:15:09.342501 application/rdf+xml 12258 2024-09-17T07:14:57.422594 image/jpeg 3219 2024-09-17T07:14:57.234564 image/jpeg 215708 2024-09-17T07:14:56.096589 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog