The Legend, Lore and Spirit of the Water Horse

From Ancient Myth to Celtic Folklore

Stephen Miller (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

154 Seiten

2025 | Unabridged edition
Cambridge Scholars Publishing (Verlag)
9781036452483 (ISBN)

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This book brings together the various legends and traditions of the water horse that have arisen over the centuries, in mythology, folklore, literature and the visual arts. It is concerned with the meaning of such stories and with the identification and association of such phenomena with natural, supernatural and mythical presences. The many connected folk tales and legends of such water spirits share an ambiguous moral teaching, conjuring with the romance and mystery of water, as a sacred, cleansing and also untamed and disruptive natural and supernatural agent. Are such seeming incompatible manifestations linked? And what is their relationship with the human psyche and their place in the cosmological order of things?

Stephen Miller is an alumnus of King's College London, and the author of four previous monographs, including, The Book of Angels: Seen and Unseen (2019) and The Green Man in Medieval England (2022), nominated for the Katharine Briggs Annual Book Award. He has contributed to a wide selection of theology, folklore and art journals and periodicals, as well as various articles/essays for De Gruyter's Encyclopedia of the Bible and its Reception (CHOICE 'Outstanding Academic Title' recipient, 2020).

Erscheinungsdatum	15.08.2025
Verlagsort	Newcastle upon Tyne
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 212 mm
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Altertum / Antike
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Weitere Religionen
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-13	9781036452483 / 9781036452483
Zustand	Neuware