![]() Fiction offered him a unique complementary way to explore some of the themes of his scholarly work, such as sacred time and space. The book includes three short stories: Twelve Thousand Head of Cattle and A Great Man, by Mircea Eliade and The Cobbler of Hydra by Mihai Niculescu. ![]() Black Water 2: More Tales of the Fantastic (Contributor) 146 copies, 3 reviews. He also wrote autobiographical works as well as numerous stories, novels, and plays. Born in Bucharest, Rumania, Mircea Eliade studied at the University of. ![]() About the Author: Mircea Eliade (1907-1986), a native of Rumania, was a leading scholar of religion, widely known for his writings on the history of religion, the structure of myth, and spiritual symbolism, including Shamanism, Yoga: Immortality and Freedom, and A History of Religious Ideas. Honigberger, " a respectable Rumanian physician vanishes without a trace after experimenting with yogic techniques in his quest for the legendary invisible world called Shambhala. In "Nights at Serampore, " three European scholars, traveling deep in the forests of Bengal, are inexplicably cast into another time and space where they witness the violent murder of a young Hindu wife. Two Tales of the Occult to relate some yogic techniques, and particularly yogic folklore, to a series of events narrated in the genre of a mystery story. So speaks a character in Two Strange Tales, a pair of novellas in which Westerners are caught up in the uncanny realm of Eastern religion and magic. ![]()
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