Millie moved into her grandmother's old (and haunted) Victorian house shortly after her parents announced their divorce. That meant she had an entire summer to stay up late and play video games with her favorite person in the world, her Mimi. Millie didn't understand why Mimi would often leave in the middle of a raid and come back hours later bruised and bloody. Until one fateful night, Mimi came home with a mortal wound and confessed a family secret. Millie comes from a long line of curanderas and is charged with keeping the balance of the universe. Mimi assumed she'd train Millie when the time was right. Unfortunately, time for Mimi is short and the people of Sweet Bay have a supernatural predator on their hands. Millie has no choice but to take the reins.
Gain victory over the spiritual forces of the deep! What are water spirits? Everyday people are feeling the effects of unseen evil forces, and yet, they dont know whats attacking them, let alone how to have victory. While many spiritual warriors are familiar with principalities and powers like Jezebel and witchcraft, few have heard of marine demons. Also called water spirits, these powers wreak havoc in places near bodies of water. From Python, to Leviathan, to Triton to Rahab and beyond, spiritual warriors are feeling the effects of water spirits but often dont know how to combat these evil forces. Bestselling author Jennifer LeClaire provides a revolutionary guidebook on how to prophetically recognize these spirits and engage in victorious warfare against them. This book will identify each water spirit, equipping believers to overcome them. Be prepared to: Recognize the symptoms of the spirit of Python and learn to break free from its squeezing stronghold. Detect the twisted lies of a Leviathan spirit in your life and in contemporary culture. Overcome the spirit of Rahab that attempts to prevent you from crossing over into your new season. Unleash the power of Holy Spirit and partner with Him to change spiritual climates in your life and city. Discern the presence of these water spirits and become equipped with spiritual warfare strategies to defeat them!
When Ashleys boyfriend, Jared, invites her to accompany him to a deserted beach, she thinks he has taken her to the perfect place to watch the sunset. Unfortunately, she could not be more wrong. Moments later, he overpowers her in a fit of anger, stopping her beating heart and sending her plummeting into a world of darkness. But it is not over. It is just the beginning. Now immersed in the world of the afterlife, Ashley transforms into a supernatural being determined to get revenge on Jared and find the motivation behind his brutal and bizzare actions. But Ashley becomes a new liability when dark forces discover the strength of her powers and their greed brings war upon the spirit elements. During dark times, Ashley must find her inner strength and fight for what she believes in. But will her thirst for vengeance force her to overlook what really matters? In this young adult fantasy, two vastly different worlds united by life and death hang in the balance as a girl journeys through an unforgiving afterlife to fulfill a revengeful mission.
You can't expect to go after Jezebel without experiencing Athaliah's revenge. After years of battling a spirit she didn't see hiding under Jezebel's skirt, Jennifer LeClaire, an internationally recognized prophet, spiritual warfare expert and prayer movement leader, discerned the spirit of Athaliah rising and attacking several areas of her life. Through prayer and revelation from God, she defeated these serious attacks. Now, she wants to equip you to fight back against the spirit of Athaliah, which is even more wicked than the spirit of Jezebel. In this book you will learn: Who the spirit of Athaliah is why why it is so dangerous How Athaliah operates and what drives it Discerning Athaliah's attack against your life The key to annihilating Athaliah And much more
The richness and the range of Native American spirituality has long been noted, but it has never been examined so thoroughly, nor with such an eye for the amazing interconnectedness of Indian tribal ceremonies and practices, as in An Archaeology of the Soul. In this monumental work, destined to become a classic in its field, Robert Hall traces the genetic and historical relationships of the tribes of the Midwest and Plains--including roots that extend back as far as 3,000 years. Looking beyond regional barriers, An Archaeology of the Soul offers new depths of insight into American Indian ethnography. Hall uncovers the lineage and kinship shared by Native North Americans through the perspectives of history, archaeology, archaeoastronomy, biological anthropology, linguistics, and mythology. The wholeness and panoramic complexity of American Indian belief has never been so fully explored--or more deeply understood.
"In my opinion this project of publications devoted to folk literature of South America is of paramount importance. South American mythology belongs to the spiritual inheritance of mankind on par with the great masterpieces of Greek and Roman antiquity and of the Near and Far East. At the present time this material is scattered in numerous publications most of which are not easy to locate. It would do a great service to scholars all over the world and to the general public to have them collected in a series of volumes."--Claude Levi-Strauss "It is time we had a set of volumes containing good source material for those who wish to study South American indigenous narratives; I am also quite certain that many nonspecialists would be interested in original documents of this kind."--Gerardo Reichel-Dolmatoff
A brave new voice from Assa On a still, moonlit night, Goroi jumps into the lake, hoping to meet the father he has never known in life. Bhanubala and her daughter-in-law Behula dance naked at midnight in a remote field to appease the rain god. Firewood-seller Rabeya and her niece Dulali rebel against the Shariat. An opium-eater undertakes the challenge of eating a basketful of red hot chillies for a little opium and some money.In one sweep, Imran Hussain's writing examines the historical, the social, the individual and the assertion of the self in the face of hard-wired traditions. Entrenched in folklore, his stories weave in protest and perspective into contemporary realities. The stories in this collection are a rare portrait of Assam, a duet of darkness and beauty, a blend of mysticism and earthiness. Available in translation for the first time, Hussain is one of India's most compelling new voices.
After Bash saves the ogre siblings Rudo and Ruka, they beg him to take them on as disciples! The pair are out for revenge against the person who murdered their mother. Now that Bash has his very first disciple, Rudo’s training begins, and they start a journey to track down the murderer. Along the way, they make a stop in succubus country. But what will happen when the queen proposes a tour of succubus cuisine? Will our hero be able to resist risking it all on a succubus and condemning himself to a life of sagehood?!
This book argues that literary production in Portuguese-speaking southern Africa has developed distinctive aesthetic idioms that critically respond to crises of global capitalism and related failures of post-colonial governance. Drawing from recent research at the intersection of world-systems analysis and materialist theories of world literature, it identifies and evaluates two generic trends in the post-independence literatures of Mozambique and Angola. From the mid-1980s to the early 1990s, there is a marked tendency in Mozambican literary production towards fictional representations of ghosts, spectral effects and gothic narrative techniques. In Angola, there is an analogous outburst of literary expression from the mid-1990s onwards, in which writers increasingly turn towards dystopian images of apocalypse, ecological crisis, and the disintegration of existing modes of social reproduction. Away from a restricted focus on the decline of the post-independence Marxist-Leninist state, the book contends that the upswing in these two genres of writing functions to critically register a world-systemic horizon that both surpasses and includes locally determined, national realities. The patterned repetition of spectral and dystopian forms in Portuguese-speaking southern Africa occurred at a time of heightened capitalisation, in which the region was subjected to newly expropriative forms of accumulation and ecological enclosure via integration into a reconstellated world-system headed by neoliberal finance capital. Through close readings of texts by authors such as Mia Couto, Suleiman Cassamo, Ungulani Ba Ka Khosa, Pepetela, and Ondjaki, this book asks: What factors drove literary production towards the figure of the spectre in Mozambique and towards dystopia in Angola? What emerging energies and social contradictions found shape in these generic idioms in ways that existing vocabularies were unable to express? What does the geo-temporal passage from spectrality to dystopia tell us about the history of capitalist development in southern Africa, and about the restructuring of political-economic parameters across the globe?
