Tales of the Sacred and the Supernatural

The book Tales of the Sacred and the Supernatural comprises two novellas: Les Trois Grâces and With the Gypsy Girls – both are among the best stories written by Mircea Eliade.The stories are full of mythological themes, philosophical explorations, and camouflaged meaning. Although the stories deal with the supernatural phenomena, they belong rather to magical realism that to Gothic literature.With the Gypsy Girls is a marvelous allegory of brevity and levity of human life. And Les Trois Grâces is a mystery full of the mystical musings on the biblical secret of the original sin. It takes just one step beyond... and one finds oneself in the land of the unknown.