Culture
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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…
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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
