Bill Ellis

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Bill Ellis (born January 3, 1950) is an American folklorist. Educated at the University of Virginia (BA, 1972) and at Ohio State University (MA, 1973, Ph.D, 1978), he is currently professor of English and American studies at Penn State Hazleton.

He was the president of the International Society for Contemporary Legend Research and the American Folklore Society's Folk Narrative section. He is also a member of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. He is mainly known as a specialist of satanism in contemporary culture. Ellis studied also conspiracy theories involving Luciferian plots, occult forces and aliens.

[edit] Works

• Raising the devil : Satanism, new religions, and the media, University Press of Kentucky, 2000.
• Aliens, ghosts, and cults : legends we live, University Press of Mississippi, 2001.
• Lucifer ascending : the occult in folklore and popular culture, University Press of Kentucky, 2003.

[edit] See also

• Folklore of the United States
• Folkloristics

[edit] External links

• Bill Ellis’s Home Page
• [1] Scott McLemee, "The Devil and Bill Ellis," Chronicle of Higher Education, 19 December 2003.
• An Interview with Bill Ellis on Satanism, the occult, and folklore