Cliff Castles and Cave Dwellers of Europe
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(digital tome with turning pages) Drawing from a wide range of early archeologic and historical knowledge, Baring-Gould surveys a vast range of cliff fortresses and subterranean hideouts used from primordial times. His encyclopedic learning is rare. Topics include: contemporary trogdolites, cave painting, geologic factors, the savage in man, cave oracles, legends of prehistory, cliff dwellings of France, rock monasteries of the Catholic hermits, crypts of the martyrs, subterranean reliquaries, underground refuges of Huguenots and Albigensians, Calvinist persecutions, bandit hideouts, Scandinavian cave burials, ghosts and visions, the instinct of immortality, suspended animation, miracles of the dead, and much more. Well illustrated with photos of the actual sites, 556 pages.