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"By rebelling against hierarchical society and living under the Jolly Roger, pirates created an upside-down world of anarchist organization and festival, with violence and death ever-present. This creation was not a purely whimsical process. In The Devil's Anarchy, Stephen Snelders examines rare 17th-century Dutch pirate histories to show the continuity of a shared pirate culture, embodied in its modes of organization, methods of distributing booty and resolving disputes, and tendencies for high living. Focussing on the careers of Claes Compaen, a cunning, charismatic renegado who claimed to have stolen more than 350 vessels, and Jan Erasmus Reyning, who hit the seas at age 12 and became a buccaneer in the pirate jungles of Santo...>>
"Shaykh Salih al-Fawzan answers the most frequently asked questions related to séances and conjuring spirits, love potions, palm reading, magic tricks, amulets, evil eye, removing magic spells, jinn possession, epilepsy, envy, astrology, astrology versus astronomy, protecting the newborn, and much more."...>>
"From the rise of American Spiritualism to the age of artificial intelligence, humanity has repeatedly turned to technology in its effort to answer one enduring question: Does consciousness survive death?
Historian Stephen Dietrich-Kolokouris traces more than 150 years of American attempts to investigate ghosts, spirits, mediumship, and communication with the dead. Beginning with the Fox sisters and the birth of Spiritualism, the book examines séance culture, spirit photography, psychical research, Electronic Voice Phenomena, psychedelic encounters, modern mediumship, paranormal television, and new technologies designed to detect what may exist beyond ordinary perception.
The American Paranormal approaches extraordinary claims without demanding either belief or dismissal. It documents fraud, exploitation, psychological bias, sincere testimony, unexplained experiences, and evidence that...>>
