Culture
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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…
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Sorcery, Heresy, and the Authority of the Christian Church
The Church in medieval Europe had a stronghold on the knowledge that was provided to the community
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The Funeral Ceremonies and Custom Rites of Ireland
As all religions are based upon the belief in a future life, so the funeral customs of a people, as…
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A Motive to Murder: Victorian Infanticide’s Secretive Nature
Factors such as infanticide’s secretive nature, flawed legislation that acquitted the guilty and incomplete record-keeping made it tempting for families…
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Mother Shipton, the Witch of York and Prophetic Insights
The legend of Mother Shipton has wielded great power for centuries — from the turmoil of Tudor courts, through the…
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Cosmology: Time and History and the Creation Myths
Cosmology, strictly speaking, is the rational discussion of the cosmos, which developed in Greece from the sixth-century BCE onward
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Atavism: A Late-Victorian Gothic Darwinian Nightmare
Detailing the how and why the body became the locus of Gothic horror in the last decades of the century
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The Case of Entr’acte and Melodramatising the Gothic
In bringing the French tradition onto the British stage, Thomas Holcroft secularised the gothic ethos, creating a form of gothic…
