Culture
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Supernatural Occultism and the Theosophical Sacred Science
An immense mass of verbiage has gathered around the Sacred Science since Mme Blavatsky drew back the curtain of occultism.
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Investing in the Aesthetics of Horror as a Theatrical Genre
The theatre is certainly no stranger to gruesome, frightening, and disturbing moments of horror.
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Bloody Serial Killers of History’s Worst Murder Sprees
This article discusses how serial killers do not resemble those we see in cinema or literary works. In truth, the…
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The Background to Witchcraft, Magic and Superstition
This article examines popular belief in witchcraft, magic and superstition from 1640 to 1670.
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Pentecostal Witches: Witchcraft in Postcolonial Mozambique
Witchcraft in postcolonial Mozambique offers a context engendered a robust notion of an “other same”, such as a witch —…
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No Exit for a Dead Body: What to do With a Scripted Corpse?
In dramatic plays when Macbeth kills young Seyward on the field of battle, and Shakespeare gives us no stage direction…
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The Theatre Historian in the Mirror and Transformation of Space
During the past few years, a rising chorus of voices have begun to address the new theatre historiography.
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The Concept of the Suffering Demon as the Principle of Chaos
The suffering demon, which surfaced in novels, short stories, dramas, and paintings in many Eastern and Western European countries at…
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Occult Aesthesis: Towards An Esoteric Theory of the Art Object
The occult art object, as an interface for, and as a producer of, varied sensation is the aesthetic object par…
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Funeral Rites and Death-Ritual Practices in Greek Tragedy
Examples of manipulation of the funeral ritual by the Greek tragedians will clearly bring into question the validity of using…
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Aftergothic: Consumption, Machines, and Black Holes
Supernatural demons, natural forces (passion, guilt, sexuality), and most recently technological powers have successively assumed a predominant role in Gothic…
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The History of Witchcraft, Magic and Culture 1736-1951
The history of European witchcraft beyond the early modern witch trials has only recently emerged as a serious branch of…
