Peacock Angel  Ethel Stefana Drower  Lulu Press, Inc, Jan. 7, 2015 - Religion The mysterious Yezidis have been thrust into the public attention due to the 2014 attacks by the Islamic State of Iraq in a campaign to obliterate non-Islamic influences from the area. Lady Drower's account of her experiences among the Yezidis has become an important record of this persecuted minority, and their religious practices. E BOOK $0.99 FROM GOOGLE PLAYhttps://books.google.ca/books?id=cQFaCAAAQBAJ&source=gbs_navlinks_s ONLINE HTML, YOU CLICK PRINT SAVE AS PDF E.S. Drower: Peacock Angel This electronic edition copyright © 2004, J.H. Peterson. If you find texts in this archive useful, please do not copy except for private study ("fair use"). The Yezidis have many customs and beliefs in common with Zoroastrianism, and this text has many observations of interest to students of the latter. I have been trying to purchase a copy of this book for some time, but have always been outbid by extravagant amounts. Bidding was always vigorous, so I figured there was a fair amount of interest in this text. Therefore, I decided to create this HTML edition. For an excellent recent book on Yezidism, see Philip Kreyenbroek, Yezidism - Its Background, Observances and Textual Tradition (Mellen, 1995) Note: All of the page numbers have anchor tags, so can be referenced individually, for example, http://www.avesta.org/yezidi/peacock.htm#p30. Likewise, the chapters can be referenced, for example, http://www.avesta.org/yezidi/peacock.htm#chap3. Obvious typos have been silently corrected. Please let me know if you find any typos, or have suggestions for improving this e-text or web site. Thanks. -JHP, July 2004. Author: Drower, E. S. (Ethel Stefana), Lady, b. 1879 Title: Peacock angel; being some account of votaries of a secret cult and their sanctuaries Published: London, J. Murray [1941] Description: ix, 214 p. front., illus., plates, ports. 22 cm. Availability: TC Wilson Library 297 D839 Regular Loan Subject LC: Yezidis. Material Type: bks http://www.avesta.org/yezidi/peacock.htm E.S. Drower: Peacock Angel, Part 2 http://www.avesta.org/yezidi/peacock2.htm E.S. Drower: Peacock Angel, Part 3 http://www.darkeningskies.net/EsotericArchive/esoteric/yezidi/peacock3.htm This electronic edition copyright © 2004, J.H. Peterson.  If you find texts in this archive useful, please do not copy except for private study ("fair use").  Ethel Stefana Drower née Stevens (1 December 1879 – 27 January 1972) was a British cultural anthropologist who studied the Middle East and its cultures. She was considered the primary specialist on the Mandaeans, and the chief collector of Mandaean manuscripts. She was a daughter of a clergyman. In 1906 she was working for Curtis Brown, a London literary agency when she signed Arthur Ransome to write Bohemia in London. In 1911, she married Edwin Drower and after his knighthood became Lady Drower. As E. S. Stevens, she wrote a series of romantic novels for Mills & Boon and other publishers. In 1921, she accompanied her husband to Iraq where Sir Edwin Drower was adviser to the Justice Minister from 1921 to 1946. Her works include The Canonical Prayerbook of the Mandaeans (a translation of the Qolusta); The Secret Adam (Mandaeans); and The Peacock Angel (about the Yezidis). Among her grandchildren was the campaigning journalist Roly Drower.