Culture
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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…
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The Value-Based Ethics for Wicca, Wiccans, and the Clergy
This article examines the present state of Wiccan ethics and the social reality existing in many Wiccan communities.
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Krampus, the Fearsome Christmas Horned Punisher
In ancient times, a dark, hairy, horned beast was said to show up at the door to beat children, and…
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Execution and its Aftermath in the Nineteenth-Century
This article explores the history of execution and its aftermath across the nineteenth-century British Empire
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Fictionalisations of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley in Film
While there are many studies of specific adaptations of Shelley, very few have focused on the overall impression her fictional…
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Realistic Horror: Film Noir and the 1940s Horror Cycle
While the thriller and the horror film are commonly seen as quite separate categories today, they were virtually indistinguishable terms…
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General Victorian Gothic-Horror Arts of the Uncanny
Initially, it is essential to state that there are different approaches to define the phenomenon of horror
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Through Gore Generations and the Horrific Cult Films
One curious characteristic of books about horror films is that they tend to end pessimistically, either by prophesying the impending…
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Mysterious Arsenic Poisonings in Rural and Secluded Essex
The British public first became aware of what would eventually be known as the Essex poisoning ring in the summer…
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Albert the Great and the Visio Mystica Epistemology
Albert’s ideas any of the modern connotations of that term which may have been alien to his time and culture
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Approaches to Magic, Heresy and Witchcraft in Time
Contemporary scholars are generally aware of a connection between heresy, magic and witchcraft
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Three Early Modern Magic Rituals to Spoil Witches
Late medieval collections of magical works very commonly contain works for the detection of thieves; this was also a service…
