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| 245 | 0 | 0 | _a“Il demone nell’ampolla”: Solomon, Virgil, Aeolus, and the Long Metamorphosis of Rain Rituals and Wind-Taming Practices |
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| 520 | _aThe analysis I propose here aims at demonstrating that the cliché of the demon in the bottle, very popular in Western culture, does not represent the mere visualization of a standard wizardry tool or of a simple folklore motif, even if, as such, it enjoyed a broad chronological and geographical diffusion. My contention is that the story of the devil entrapped in a container resulted from the encounter of two different and distinct notions: an archaic concern, springing from the desire to control natural forces, particularly winds, and a more recent habit of associating solid vessels and evil spirits, which developed mostly around the end of the first century C.E. onwards, particularly in Jerusalem. Successively, through the pseudo-epigraphic text known as the Testament of Solomon, both traditions were ascribed to King Solomon who, from Late Antiquity onwards, was strongly associated with the domain of demonology, thus becoming a sort of necromancer par excellence. | ||
| 786 | 0 | _nRevue de l’histoire des religions | Volume 234 | 3 | 2017-09-25 | p. 387-425 | 0035-1423 | |
| 856 | 4 | 1 | _uhttps://shs.cairn.info/journal-revue-de-l-histoire-des-religions-2017-3-page-387?lang=en |
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