Culture
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European Witch Trials Foundations in Popular Culture
Certain recent historians of witchcraft have adopted their mode of inquiry from anthropology
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Early Reflections on the Making of the Female Witch
Whoever was named when the sieve turned and came to a full stop was proven to be able to bewitch
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Ritual Mythologies and Witchcraft in the Fifteenth-Century
The European witch trials that began in the fifteenth-century have been explained in many ways, but always assuming that witchcraft…
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The Horned Gods and Goddesses of the Witches
The earliest known representation of a deity is in the Caverne des Trois Frères in Ariège, and dates to the…
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Suffering in Rhythm: The ‘Haunting Melody’ in Film Noir
The trope of the ‘haunting melody’ recurs in film noir of the classic era (1940-1959)
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Telling Scary Stories: “Cannot Sleep, Clowns Will Eat Me”
Among the earliest forms of human self-awareness was the awareness of being meat
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The Realization of the Witch in the Human Sciences
While such invisible forces have gone by many names, one can track a historical persistence of this epistemological concern with…
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The Seventeenth-Century Witch’s Devilish Attributes
Witch-mania, the conditions of mediaeval life, by their harsh pressure upon the poor and needy among women, should have provided…
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The Anunnaki, the Vampire, and the Structure of Dissent
In yet another reinvention of the vampire — courtesy of rightist conspiracy theorists — vampires are cast as belonging to…
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The Muse of Horror: Traditions of Dreadful Imagining
Criticism addressing the literature of horror is notoriously lacking in an established terminology.
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Science, Medicine and Witchcraft Historiography
Scholars of witchcraft have often been pioneers of new forms of historical study and interdisciplinary developments.
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Femmes Fatales and Film Noir’s ‘Zeitgeist’ in the 1940s
Film noir has been one of the most debated, most discussed and most contested terms in studies of film history…
