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Gender, Supernatural Beings, and the Liminality of Death
2021Gender, Supernatural Beings, and the Liminality of Death: Monstrous Males/Fatal Females examines representations of the supernatural dead to demonstrate shifts in the manifestation of gender. Including readings of East Asian detectives/cyborgs, Iranian vampires, and African zombies, among others, This collection offers a multi-faceted look at myth ...
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Twilight of the Godlings: The Shadowy Beginnings of Britain’s Supernatural Beings
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Supernatural punishment: what traits are being selected?
Religion, Brain & Behavior, 2011In their critical analysis of supernatural punishment (SP) theories, Schloss and Murray (2011) tease apart two distinct but often conflated adaptationist approaches to religion: those that argue th...
Helen De Cruz, Johan De Smedt
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The Role of Agency Detection in the Invention of Supernatural Beings
2010Over the last decade, a multidisciplinary approach (merging cognitive science, anthropology and evolutionary psychology) has stressed the fundamental importance of cognitive constraints concerning the complex phenomenon defined as “religion”. The main feature is the predominant presence of belief in agent-concepts that display a strong counterfactual ...
Tommaso Bertolotti, Lorenzo Magnani
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The Impersonations of Gods and Supernatural Beings in Yaxchilan
2017Este artículo analiza las personificaciones de seres sobrenaturales por parte de personajes de la elite política de Yaxchilán, Chiapas, México, que hicieron su aparición durante el periodo Clásico Tardío maya y que se manifestaron sucesivamente durante los gobiernos de «Dios D» B’ahlam II, Yaxuun B’ahlam IV y Chelew Chan K’inich, a través de estos ...
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Natural Religion, Models, and the Invention of Supernatural Beings
2015My research was not aimed at drawing a history of cognitive “progress,” which emerges through a juxtaposition of different “stages” of thought (Barnes, Stages of thought: the co-evolution of religious thought and science 2000); if it were, then it would have made sense to begin with religion and the origins of culture, and track the “evolution” leading
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Supernatural Beings in Macedonian Beliefs
2020Balkanhalklarının coşkulu bir sözlü ve yazılı geleneği olan son derece zengin birfolkloru vardır ve özelliklerini esas olarak bölgedeki diğer folklorlarlapaylaşan Kuzey Makedonya da bu geleneği paylaşma konusunda istisna değildir. Bumakale Makedon halkının vampir, hayalet, peri, ejderha, lamia, cadı, kader vetalasam gibi doğaüstü varlıklara ...
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Supernatural beings as creators of young-glacial landscape of Pomerania
Elements of the landscape and conceptions of the supernatural world often formed inseparable correlates. Erratic boulders, end moraines, eskers, kames, and peat bogs evoked interest as well as fear. They were associated with uncanny events and were also places where demonic figures resided.Jakub Jaszewski +5 more
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'Reality' of Traditional beliefs in Supernatural Beings
2016For more than a hundred years, witches, mòras, werewolves, fairies and other creatures have been in the focus of Croatian ethnologists and folklorists who have collected numerous accounts about folk life mentioning these supernatural beings. My recent field work in Dalmatian hinterland (part of Croatia) has shown that today groups and individuals still
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