| Description |
1 online resource (vii, 223 pages) : illustrations |
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Belief and Disbelief -- Is Belief in the Supernatural Declining? -- Telling It Slant -- Patterns of Belief -- Order in Chaos -- Family Love -- Competing Cultures -- Contact with the Dead -- Life after Death -- Ghosts and Hauntings -- Visitations -- Cause, Consequence, and Lack Liquidated -- Delving -- Witnesses, Bereavement, and the Sense of Presence / Kate Bennett -- Witnesses -- Bereavement -- The Sense of Presence -- From Private Experience to Public Performance Supernatural Experience as Narrative -- Belief and Disbelief: Patterns of Narration -- Story Dialectic: The Imaginary Judge and Jury -- "Alas, Poor Ghost!" Case Studies in the History of Ghosts and Visitations -- The Ghost of Hamlet's Father -- The Cock Lane Poltergeist -- The Clodd/Lang Debate -- The Vanishing Hitchhiker -- A Brief History of "Witnesses" -- Collecting the Data -- The Manchester Study -- The Leicester Study -- Transcribing Spoken Texts -- The Manchester Respondents -- Linguistic Clues to Belief and Disbelief -- Word Lists Showing Story Patterns in Memorates |
| Summary |
In the rational modern world, belief in the supernatural seemingly has been consigned to the worlds of entertainment and fantasy. Yet belief in other worldly phenomena, from poltergeists to telepathy, remains strong, as Gillian Bennett's research shows |
| Notes |
"New, expanded, and extensively rev. ed. of Traditions of belief : women and the supernatural." |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-220) and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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Folklore -- Great Britain.
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Occultism -- Great Britain
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Ghosts -- Great Britain
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Women -- Great Britain -- Folklore
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Folklore & Mythology.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General.
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Folklore.
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Ghosts.
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Occultism.
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Women.
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Great Britain.
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| Genre/Form |
Folklore.
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780874213560 |
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0874213568 |
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058517525X |
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9780585175256 |
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