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1 online resource (vii, 223 pages) : illustrations |
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polychrome |
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Book collections on Project MUSE.
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"New, expanded, and extensively rev. ed. of Traditions of belief : women and the supernatural." |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-220) and index. |
| Contents |
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 -- 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 -- Ghost of Hamlet's Father -- Cock Lane Poltergeist -- Clodd/Lang Debate -- Vanishing Hitchhiker -- A Brief History of "Witnesses" -- Collecting the Data -- Manchester Study -- Leicester Study -- Transcribing Spoken Texts -- 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. |
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Use copy Restrictions unspecified MiAaHDL |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL |
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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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digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve MiAaHDL |
| Local Note |
JSTOR Books at JSTOR Open Access |
| Subject |
Folklore -- Great Britain.
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Folklore. |
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Great Britain. |
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Occultism -- Great Britain.
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Occultism. |
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Ghosts -- Great Britain.
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Ghosts. |
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Women -- Great Britain -- Folklore.
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Women. |
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Folklore.
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Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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Women. |
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Womyn. |
| Added Title |
Traditions of belief.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Bennett, Gillian. Alas, poor ghost!. Logan, Utah : Utah State University Press, ©1999 0874212782 (DLC) 99006558 (OCoLC)41439481 |
| ISBN |
9780874213560 (electronic book) |
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0874213568 (electronic book) |
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058517525X (electronic book) |
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9780585175256 (electronic book) |
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0874212782 (cloth) |
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9780874212785 (cloth) |
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0874212774 (paperback) |
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9780874212778 (paperback) |
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