In "Haunted Greece" John L. Tomkinson takes you on a journey into the dark regions of the Hellenic folk memory. Here you will meet the fearful strangles, who murder infants in their cots; beautiful nymphs who entice young men into insanity: the dead who climb out of their graves to prey upon their friends and relatives; the mischievous demons who emerge from the underworld during the twelve nights of Christmas; ax-heated serpents which haunt churches and foretell death; the rainbow-plumaged bird whose flight signals imminent catastrophe; and many even more terrible creatures. Some of these may have haunted the imagination of this most inventive people for more than three millennia.
