Theresa Bane's single volume reference encyclopedia surveying demon, devil and hostile spirit figures across the world's religious and folkloric traditions, McFarland and Company, 2012.
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Assessment
Reliability Tier2
Reliability tier 2, a broad single author reference encyclopedia rather than a peer reviewed monograph on any one tradition. Bane surveys demon and hostile spirit figures across a very wide range of religious and folkloric traditions from published secondary sources, which makes it a useful cross tradition index and a starting point for further reading, but not the deepest authority on any single tradition it covers. This atlas cites it for the plain, uncontested descriptive facts a survey reference is reliable for, and pairs it with tradition specific scholarship wherever that exists. Citation
AuthorTheresa Bane
PublisherMcFarland and Company
Publication Year2012
Source Typeacademic reference
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Claims Backed By This Source (17 claims)
This source backs 17 claims across the atlas. As facts: 11 well-attested. Plus 6 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.
Disposition By Topic
- Mythical Creatures, 12 claims: 6 well-attested, 6 general references.
- Sources, 5 claims: 5 well-attested.
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