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The Seer in Celtic and Other Traditions : Hilda Ellis Davidson 1989
The Seer in Celtic and Other Traditions : Hilda Ellis Davidson 1989
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The Seer in Celtic and Other Traditions
Edited by Hilda Ellis Davidson
Published by John Donaldson Publishers Ltd, Edinburgh, 1989. First Edition. Hardback book with dust jacket. 146 paqes. With a few illustrations in text.
The Seer in Celtic and Other Traditions, edited by Hilda Ellis Davidson, is a collection of scholarly papers from a 1987 Folklore Society symposium that explores various forms of "seeing what is normally hidden" across different cultures and time periods. The book includes essays on the Second Sight in Scotland and Wales, seers in ancient Israel, and the role of seers in Japan, while also discussing the philosophical and spiritual context of seership, which often served mundane, rather than ethereal, purposes
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A very good clean copy throughout and in a very good undamaged dust jacket. Overall a fine copy.
PLEASE NOTE: Over the next week or so we will be listing around 150 hard-to-find titles relating to welsh and scottish, medieval studies, icelandic sagas, celts, picts, archaeology, religious and spiritual beliefs, witchcraft and magic, medieval women . . . so keep an eye on our latest auctions
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The Seer in Celtic and Other Traditions, edited by Hilda Ellis Davidson, is a collection of scholarly papers from a 1987 Folklore Society symposium that explores various forms of "seeing what is normally hidden" across different cultures and time periods. The book includes essays on the Second Sight in Scotland and Wales, seers in ancient Israel, and the role of seers in Japan, while also discussing the philosophical and spiritual context of seership, which often served mundane, rather than ethereal, purposes
CONDITION
A very good clean copy throughout and in a very good undamaged dust jacket. Overall a fine copy.
PLEASE NOTE: Over the next week or so we will be listing around 150 hard-to-find titles relating to welsh and scottish, medieval studies, icelandic sagas, celts, picts, archaeology, religious and spiritual beliefs, witchcraft and magic, medieval women . . . so keep an eye on our latest auctions
(H/H)
