The Scorpion - Volume 1 - The Devil's Mark

Author: Stephen Desberg
Publisher: Cinebook
ISBN: 184918920X
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 98

Book Description
Rome the beautiful is dying, the symbol of civilization falling, the empire burning. Hidden from massacres and looting, a strange meeting is held by nine families who share the Roman Empire. To retain their power, they decide to support a new religion—Christianity—as well as its representative, the pope. But who are these 9 mysterious families? Later, much later, it's the Renaissance. Christianity prospers. A brigand called “the Scorpion” makes a living by unearthing relics in the depths of the Roman catacombs, which he sells at high prices to princes and bishops. Trebaldi, a powerful cardinal, takes an interest in this Scorpion, who is either a creature of the devil... or a witness to a cursed era who must disappear...This two-volume book includes "The Pope's Secret".

Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds (Complete Edition: Volume 1-3)

Author: Charles Mackay
Publisher: e-artnow
ISBN:
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 633

Book Description
Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds is a study of crowd psychology by Scottish journalist Charles Mackay. The subjects of Mackay's debunking include witchcraft, alchemy, crusades, duels, economic bubbles, fortune-telling, haunted houses, the Drummer of Tedworth, the influence of politics and religion on the shapes of beards and hair, magnetizers (influence of imagination in curing disease), murder through poisoning, prophecies, popular admiration of great thieves, popular follies of great cities, and relics. Contents: Volume 1: National Delusions: The Mississippi Scheme The South Sea Bubble The Tulipomania Relics Modern Prophecies Popular Admiration for Great Thieves Influence of Politics and Religion on the Hair and Beard Duels and Ordeals The Love of the Marvellous and the Disbelief of the True Popular Follies in Great Cities Old Price Riots The Thugs, or Phansigars Volume 2: Peculiar Follies: The Crusades The Witch Mania The Slow Poisoners Haunted Houses Volume 3: Philosophical Delusions : The Alchemysts Fortune Telling The Magnetisers

Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds

Author: Charles Mackay
Publisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 635

Demonology And Devil-Lore, Volume 1 by Moncure Daniel Conway

Author: Moncure Daniel Conway
Publisher: BEYOND BOOKS HUB
ISBN:
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 639

Book Description
♥♥ Demonology And Devil-Lore, Volume 1 by Moncure Daniel Conway ♥♥ This is the first Volume of Demonology And Devil-Lore by Moncure Daniel Conway. Fully illustrated, this volume is a treasure trove of demon and devil mythology, with subjects such as: Origin of Deism; Illustrations from Witchcraft; The knowledge of good and evil; Distinction between Demon and Devil; Deities demonised by conquest; Why Demons were painted ugly; Theological Demons; Ráhu the Hindu sun-devourer; Sheitan as moon-devourer; Demons’ fear of water; Descent of Ishtar into Hades; Survivals of the Frost Giant in Slavonic and other countries; The Northern abode of Demons; Animal demons distinguished; and many more. ♥♥ Demonology And Devil-Lore, Volume 1 by Moncure Daniel Conway ♥♥ Three Friars, says a legend, hid themselves near the Witch Sabbath orgies that they might count the devils; but the Chief of these, discovering the friars, said Reve rend Brothers, our army is such that if all the Alps, their rocks and glaciers, were equally divided among us, none would have a pound's weight.' This was in one Alpine valley. ♥♥ Demonology And Devil-Lore, Volume 1 by Moncure Daniel Conway ♥♥ Any one who has caught but a glimpse of the world's Walpurgis Night, as revealed in Mythology and Folklore, must agree that this courteous devil did not overstate the case. Any attempt to catalogue the evil Spectres which have haunted mankind were like trying to count the shadows cast upon the earth by the rising sun. This conviction has grown upon the author of this work at every step in his studies of the subject. ♥♥ Demonology And Devil-Lore, Volume 1 by Moncure Daniel Conway ♥♥

Curious Facts in the History of Insects, Including Spiders and Scorpions

Author: Frank Cowan
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Insects
Languages : en
Pages : 408

Book Description

Materials Toward a History of Witchcraft, Volume 1

Author: Arthur C. Howland
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 1512817481
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 480

Book Description
This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Anniversary Collection offers peer-reviewed scholarship in a wide range of subject areas.

50 Masterpieces of Murder Mystery & Detective Fiction (Vol. 1)

Author: Jules Verne
Publisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 12151

Book Description
E-artnow presents to you this unique collection of the greatest classics of thriller and mystery every fan of the genre should experience at least once in their life: The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (Agatha Christie) The Mysterious Affair at Styles (Agatha Christie) The Secret Adversary (Agatha Christie) The Murders in the Rue Morgue (Edgar Allan Poe) The Masque of the Red Death (Edgar Allan Poe) The Purloined Letter (Edgar Allan Poe) A Study in Scarlet (Arthur Conan Doyle) The Sign of Four (Arthur Conan Doyle) The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (Arthur Conan Doyle) The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes (Arthur Conan Doyle) The Innocence of Father Brown (G. K. Chesterton) The Abbey Court Murder (Annie Haynes) The Man Who Knew Too Much (G. K. Chesterton) The Woman in White (Wilkie Collins) Bleak House (Charles Dickens) Jane Eyre (Charlotte Brontë) Tess of the D'Urbervilles (Thomas Hardy) Heart of Darkness (Joseph Conrad) Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (Robert Louis Stevenson) Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (Jules Verne) The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (Mark Twain) Tom Sawyer, Detective (Mark Twain) The Turn of the Screw (Henry James) Crime and Punishment (Fyodor Dostoyevsky) The Shooting Party (Anton Chekhov) Guy Mannering (Walter Scott) The Picture of Dorian Gray (Oscar Wilde) The Invisible Man (H. G. Wells) The Four Just Men (Edgar Wallace) The Red Thumb Mark (R. Austin Freeman) The Leavenworth Case (Anna Katharine Green) The Circular Staircase (Mary Roberts Rinehart) Bulldog Drummond (Sapper) Martin Hewitt Investigator (Arthur Morrison) The Lodger (Marie Belloc Lowndes) Whose Body? (Dorothy L. Sayers) The Thirty-Nine Steps (John Buchan) The Count of Monte Cristo (Alexandre Dumas) Arsène Lupin (Maurice Leblanc) The Phantom of the Opera (Gaston Leroux) The Widow Lerouge (Émile Gaboriau) Fantômas (Marcel Allain) Dracula (Bram Stoker) Uncle Silas (Sheridan Le Fanu) The Call of Cthulhu (H. P. Lovecraft) The House on the Borderland (William Hope Hodgson) The Willows (Algernon Blackwood) The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (Washington Irving) The Mystery of Edwin Drood (Charles Dickens)

Curious Facts in the History of Insects; including spiders and scorpions. A complete collection of the legends, superstitions, beliefs and ominous signs connected with insects, together with their uses in medicine, art, and as food; and a summary of their remarkable injuries and appearances

Author: Frank Cowan
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Insects
Languages : en
Pages : 408

Book Description

Memoirs from the Word of God Volume 1

Author: Rev. Ronald Davis
Publisher: WestBow Press
ISBN: 197369431X
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 501

Book Description
This book is a compilation of inspirational encouragement from the word of God, messages I have preached and taught over the years in ministry from past to present, over thirty something years, inspired by the word and Spirit of God, words of hope and spiritual enlightenment and revelation. I have spent years before the Lord listening to Him getting these messages and words, and I really feel they will bless you Amen.

Sparkling Gems From the Greek Vol. 1

Author: Rick Renner
Publisher: Destiny Image Publishers
ISBN: 1606837699
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 1644

Book Description
Unlock a Cache of Enduring Riches In Sparkling Gems From the Greek, Rick Renner unlocks an amazing cache of rich, enduring treasures mined from deep within the Word to unveil a wealth of brilliant wisdom and sound counsel that will enrich and redefine your life.Sparkling Gems is arranged in a devotional format with more than 1,000 in-depth...