Devils and Evil Spirits of Babylonia

Devils and Evil Spirits of Babylonia by R. Campbell Thompson, 1903.
Containing commentary and original texts with translations, this may very well be the perfect preparation for the Hallow'een Season. H.P. Lovecraft, methinks, must have found this tome a treasure trove.

"The early Semitic people of Babylonia, whoever they may have been or wherever they may have migrated from, found a theology ready to their hands in their adopted country, which they took over from its primitive inhabitants, the Sumerians, doubtless grafting to it many of the beliefs of their forefathers. To the latest times, down to a century or two before the Christian era, they retained the doctrines in their original language, making interlinear translations of them for use in the temples and among the doctors, and it is owing to this that we can speak with tolerable certainty on many points of the early religion of Babylonia...." R. C. Thompson, 1903

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