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The Devil's Animals: A History of Creatures Accused of Evil

by Kade O'Brien
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Book cover type: Paperback
  • ISBN13: 9798195476014
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Independently Published
  • Publisher Imprint: Independently Published
  • Publication Date:
  • Pages: 142
  • Original Price: GBP 11.09
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 200 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Demonology & Satanism

The animals were innocent. The accusations were human.

The Devil's Animals explores the dark and fascinating history of the creatures that were blamed, feared, cursed, hunted, and imagined as servants of evil.

Across centuries of European folklore, Christian demonology, witch trial records, bestiaries, sermons, legends, and superstition, certain animals became more than animals. Black cats became familiars. Goats became the face of the sabbath. Serpents became tempters. Wolves became devourers of the human world. Owls became birds of death. Toads, ravens, bats, black dogs, pigs, horses, and strange hybrid beasts were all drawn into a symbolic world where fear needed a body, and evil was given fur, feather, scale, horn, and claw.

This book uncovers the real history behind those accusations.

Inside, you will explore:

  • Black cats and the witch's hearth
  • Goats, horns, and the invention of the sabbath beast
  • Serpents, dragons, and the old fear of forbidden knowledge
  • Wolves, werewolves, and the devouring dark
  • Owls, ravens, bats, toads, black dogs, pigs, horses, and the creatures of omen and accusation
  • The strange legal history of animal trials
  • The role of bestiaries, sermons, witchcraft accusations, and folklore in shaping the Devil's animal kingdom
  • How ordinary animals became evidence in human stories of sin, danger, heresy, and supernatural fear

This is a history of superstition, but also a history of projection. The cat by the fire, the wolf beyond the village, the owl in the churchyard, and the serpent in the grass were not evil. They were living creatures forced into human systems of fear, theology, law, and imagination.

Dark, strange, scholarly, and deeply atmospheric, The Devil's Animals is for readers of folklore, demonology, witchcraft history, animal symbolism, medieval superstition, occult history, and the hidden fears that shaped the old world.

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