Woman's Lore, Sarah Clegg

Woman's Lore, Sarah CleggNew Paperback Woman's Lore: 4,000 Years of Sirens, Serpents and Succubi Creatures like Lilith, the seductive first wife of Adam, and mermaids, who lured sailors to their death, are familiar figures in the genre of monstrous temptresses who use their charms to entice men to their doom. But if we go back 4,000 years, the roots of these demons lie in horrific creatures like Lamashtu, a lion headed Mesopotamian demon who strangled infants and murdered

In her late-twenties

Accounts in journals and literary fiction inspired a fascinated public to make their own experiments—in scientific demonstrations

while Nietzsche wandered the mountainside to write

award-winning drinks writer Henry Jeffreys takes you behind the scenes of the English wine revolution

Local food producers

When France fell in the summer of 1940

behind the scenes intelligence sharing continued uninterrupted

drove the route of Gunter's walk through Europe and retraced the final steps of his parents prior to their deportation to a Nazi death camp in Poland during 1942

this is a book to give

sound and life than perhaps anywhere else in the UK

which depicts Kempenfelt writing in his cabin when she foundered

Borderland bridges geography