Word: riencourt
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...AMERICAN EMPIRE by Amaury de Riencourt. 366 pages. Dial...
...help a drowning man, because evil spirits might drag the rescuer down too. The aggregate of thousands of such superstitions is not transcendental or spiritual. It is not an attempt to commune with the unseen forces but to constrain them. It is all part of what Amaury de Riencourt calls "magic realism...