Description
| Summary: | A vigorous imagination is the principal source for many of the abnormalities of fictional characters. Many of the motifs also bear some relation to the rituals and religious symbols embraced by the people among whom they are or were at one time, current. Another important source can be found in symbolism of a religious or social kind. This motif-index is the first to present and analyse this material in biblical narrative and post-biblical literature down to the twelfth century CE; it lists all possible abnormalities, deformities and disabilities, arranged according to the parts of the body af.
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| Item Description: | Revision of the author's thesis (doctoral)--University of Edinburgh, 1988. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (370 pages) |
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| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 364-370). |
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| ISBN: | 9780567322784
0567322785
1281803472
9781281803474
9786611803476
6611803475 |
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| ISSN: | 0309-0787 ; |
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| Language: | English. |
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| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Print version record. |
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