The Devils And Evil Spirits Of Babylonia: Evil Spirit (Vol.1St)

ABOUT THE BOOK:- From the earliest times Eastern races in common with the rest of mankind have always held a firm belief in the existence of evil spirits ghosts and all kindred powers. The phenomena of death the mysteries of disease and sickness and all the other events of common occurrence in daily life gave rise to speculations about the unseen world which gradually led to a distinction although slight at all times between good evil spirits. The early Semitic people of Babylonia who ever 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. The primitive Sumerian recognised three distinct classes of evil spirit namely first came the disembodied human soul which could find no rest and so wandered up and down the face of the earth secondly the gruesome spirits which were half human and half demon and thirdly the friends and devils who were of the same nature as the gods. Who rode on the noxious winds or brought storms and pestilence. ABOUT THE AUTHOR:- R. Campbell Thompson (1876-1941) was a British archaeologist assyriologist and cuneiformist. He excavated at Nineveh Ur Nebo and Charchemish among many other sites. He was born in Kensington and educated at colet Court St. Paul school and Caius College Cambridge where he read oriental (Hebrew and Aramic) Languages. In 1918 Mesopotamia fell into British hands and the trustees of the British Museum applied to have an archaeologist attached to the army in the field to protect antiquities from injury. As a captain in the Intelligence Service serving in the region and a former assistant in the British Museum R.C. Thompson was commissioned to start the work. After a short investigation of Ur he dug at Shahrain and the mounds at Tell- al- Laham. After the First World War he held a fellowship at Me