even in the street by night." As Walter Stephens demonstrates in Demon Lovers, it was not Hausmännin or other so-called witches who were obsessive about sex with demons-instead, a number of devout Christians, including trained theologians, displayed an uncanny preoccupation with the topic during the centuries of the "witch craze." Why? To find out, Stephens conducts a detailed investigation of the first and most influential treatises on witchcraft (written between 14), including the infamous Malleus Maleficarum (Hammer of Witches). Fornication with demons was a major theme of her trial record, which detailed an almost continuous orgy of sexual excess with her diabolical paramour Federlin "in many divers places. Although she had confessed to committing a long list of maleficia (deeds of harmful magic), including killing forty-one infants and two mothers in labor, her evil career allegedly began with just one heinous act-sex with a demon. On September 20, 1587, Walpurga Hausmännin of Dillingen in southern Germany was burned at the stake as a witch. This story of demon-lover and victim, always charged with passion, has been told over and over, from Greek mythology through contemporary fiction and films.ĭemon-Lovers and Their Victims in British Fiction is the first historical and structural exploration of the demon-lover motif, with emphasis on major works of British fiction from the eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth centuries it will interest those concerned with gender role conflicts in literature and with the mutual influence of oral and written texts of folklore and formal literature.Download Demon Lovers Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle The heroine - beautiful, and innocent - willingly becomes his victim and is destroyed by him. The hero of the story is a demonic lover - dark, handsome, mysterious, and dangerously seductive. Genre: Literary Criticism,Books,Fiction & Literature,Health, Mind & Body,Spirituality,.Title: Demon-Lovers and Their Victims in British Fiction.
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