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The strix was a persistent feature of the folklore of the Roman world and subsequently that of the Latin West and the Greek East. She was a woman that flew by night, either in an owl-like form or in the form of a projected soul, in order to penetrate homes by surreptitious means and thereby devour, blight or steal the new-born babies within them. The motif-set of the ideal narrative of a strix attack - the 'strix-paradigm' - is reconstructed from Ovid, Petronius, John Damascene and other sources, and the paradigm's impact is traced upon the typically gruesome representation of witches in Latin literature. The concept of the strix is contextualised against the longue-durée notion of the child-killing demon, which is found already in the ancient Near East, and shown to retain a currency still as informing the projection of the vampire in Victorian fiction.

Witchcraft --- Witches --- Mythology, Roman. --- Roman mythology --- Occultists --- Warlocks --- Wiccans --- Black art (Witchcraft) --- Sorcery --- Occultism --- Wicca

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The nineteenth century witnessed a proliferation of alternative religious currents and practices, appropriating earlier traditions, entangling geographically distinct spiritual discourses, and crafting a repository of mindscapes eminently suitable to be accommodated by later generations of thinkers and practitioners. Penned by specialists in the field, this volume examines important themes and figures pertaining to this occult amalgam and its resonance into the twentieth century and beyond. Global guises of the occult, ranging from the Americas and Europe to India, are variously addressed, with special attention to the crucial role of mesmerism and the origins of modern yoga. Lukas Pokorny is Professor and Chair in Religious Studies at the Department of Religious Studies, University of Vienna, Austria. Franz Winter is Professor of Religious Studies at the Department of Religious Studies, University of Graz, Austria.

Religions. --- Literature, Modern—19th century. --- Arts. --- Comparative Religion. --- Nineteenth-Century Literature. --- Arts, Fine --- Arts, Occidental --- Arts, Western --- Fine arts --- Humanities --- Comparative religion --- Denominations, Religious --- Religion, Comparative --- Religions, Comparative --- Religious denominations --- World religions --- Civilization --- Gods --- Religion --- Occultism --- Religious aspects. --- History --- Art, Black (Magic) --- Arts, Black (Magic) --- Black art (Magic) --- Black arts (Magic) --- Occult, The --- Occult sciences --- Supernatural --- New Age movement --- Parapsychology --- Paganism. --- Literature, Modern --- Art --- Pagan Religions. --- Art History. --- Art history --- History of art --- Literature --- Civilization, Pagan --- Heathenism --- Religions --- 19th century. --- History.

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In 2001, Freestyle, a survey exhibition curated by Thelma Golden at the Studio Museum in Harlem, introduced both a young generation of artists of African descent and the ambitious yet knowingly opaque term post-black to a pre 9-11 and pre-Obama world. In Taking Stakes in the Unknown, Nana Adusei-Poku contextualizes the term post-black in its socio-historical and cultural context. Whilst exploring its present legacy and past potential, she examines works by artists who were defined as part of the post-black generation: Mark Bradford, Leslie Hewitt, Mickalene Thomas and Hank Willis Thomas - and, by expanding the scope of the definition, the Black German artist Philip Metz.

Black Art; Black Diaspora Art; Critical Race Art History; Cultural Studies; African American; Black German; Art; Postcolonialism; Gender; Theory of Art; Gender Studies; Fine Arts --- African American. --- Art. --- Black Diaspora Art. --- Black German. --- Critical Race Art History. --- Cultural Studies. --- Fine Arts. --- Gender Studies. --- Gender. --- Postcolonialism. --- Theory of Art. --- Art noir. --- Art --- Art, Black. --- Art, Modern --- Art, Modern. --- Black people in art. --- Black people --- Personnes noires dans l'art. --- Race identity. --- 2000-2099.