Culture
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Archaeology, History, Crime and Punishment
Murder, assault, thievery, fraud — for as long as there have been groups of humans living together, these and many…
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‘Night of the Living Dead’: Re-evaluating the Undead Classic
The release in 2004 of Zack Snyder’s remake of George A. Romero’s ‘Dawn of the Dead’ (1978) attests to the…
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Contemporary Pagans and the Blood that Matters
At festivals, Neopagans celebrate the identities they have borrowed from ancient or non-Christian religions, such as Santeria.
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The Egyptian Royal Funerary Complexes
The royal funerary complexes constituted an indispensable part of the ancient Egyptian state of the Old Kingdom.
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Mythologies of Death and on the Origins of Dying
As is well known, only a few myths explain the advent of death as a consequence of man’s transgressing a…
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Witchcraft and Magic in Enlightenment Europe
The so-called Enlightenment of the eighteenth-century has often been portrayed as a period in which much of Europe cast off…
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Was Ergotism that Satan Once Loosed in Salem?
Numerous hypotheses have been devised to explain the occurrence of the Salem witchcraft trials in 1692, yet a sense of…
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Issues of the Witchcraft Phenomenon in the Renaissance
As the woman next door, the witch disrupted the domestic sphere, interfering with food supplies and the health of infants…
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The British Infanticide: A Poisonous Motive to Murder
The surprising results of this research in the Times of London is that in nineteenth-century Britain many families turned to…
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The Crimes of Outcast Women in Fremantle, 1900 to 1939
The female inebriate posed a particular dilemma for society: the weakness of the will in women, it was argued, had…
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Fear, Misfortune, Heresy: The Witch-Craze in Germany
The discussed cultural origins and folkloric repercussions of/on witchcraft in Europe have shown that the Early Modern Period was a…
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Colonial Imperial Domination: Trauma, Gothic, Revolution
If there is one thing I would like to demonstrate in this article, it is the force of the truism…
