Description:Around the year 1400 a monk at Byland Abbey in North Yorkshire sat and wrote some of our earliest English ghost tales. The spirits encountered are a long way from the ghosts of today. We have, on the Yorkshire moors, fearsome shapechangers, medieval zombies and one baby ghost doomed to live in his father's stocking. These spirits not only frighten. They also injure. Field-workers are set upon, mistresses blinded, clothes are torn and night-time walkers thrown over hedges. Get ready, too, for magical rituals, well-dressed demons, bleating goat ghouls, child scriers, whirling haystacks, supernatural property disputes and a ghoul that rides piggy back on a woman. This edition includes an introduction, a comprehensive bibliography and for the first time puts the Latin side-by-side with an English translation.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Ghosts of Medieval Yorkshire: The Zombies, Shape-Changers and Ghouls of Byland Abbey (Ghost Series). To get started finding The Ghosts of Medieval Yorkshire: The Zombies, Shape-Changers and Ghouls of Byland Abbey (Ghost Series), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.
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The Ghosts of Medieval Yorkshire: The Zombies, Shape-Changers and Ghouls of Byland Abbey (Ghost Series)
Description: Around the year 1400 a monk at Byland Abbey in North Yorkshire sat and wrote some of our earliest English ghost tales. The spirits encountered are a long way from the ghosts of today. We have, on the Yorkshire moors, fearsome shapechangers, medieval zombies and one baby ghost doomed to live in his father's stocking. These spirits not only frighten. They also injure. Field-workers are set upon, mistresses blinded, clothes are torn and night-time walkers thrown over hedges. Get ready, too, for magical rituals, well-dressed demons, bleating goat ghouls, child scriers, whirling haystacks, supernatural property disputes and a ghoul that rides piggy back on a woman. This edition includes an introduction, a comprehensive bibliography and for the first time puts the Latin side-by-side with an English translation.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Ghosts of Medieval Yorkshire: The Zombies, Shape-Changers and Ghouls of Byland Abbey (Ghost Series). To get started finding The Ghosts of Medieval Yorkshire: The Zombies, Shape-Changers and Ghouls of Byland Abbey (Ghost Series), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.