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Accepted Paper:
Devil as a Stranger and the Stranger as a Devil: Images of the Devil and Other Demonic Entities as a Foreigners in European Culture
Alfredas Buiko
(Vilnius Tech)
Paper short abstract:
This paper discusses how devils and other demonic entities were portrayed in various European folklore and culture in the modern times.
Paper long abstract:
The devil, the spirit of plague and various other demonic entities have been an object of European folklore and both high and low culture for a very long time (for example, in Lithuanian folklore, the devil was often portrayed as a "German", while the spirit of plagues was imagined as a strange Jewish person). In this paper, the author analyses the ways the images of the demonic and the foreign intersect and affect each other, paradoxically humanizing the otherworldly powers of evil and demonizing foreign (both neighbors and not) at the same time.