Culture
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Mystics, Demoniacs, and the Physiology of Spirit Possession
Medieval communities struggled mightily over how to decide whether an inspired woman was possessed by the Holy Spirit or an…
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Science and the Occult Disciples in the Twentieth-Century
Writing about “science and the occult” is made difficult by the significant ambiguity both these terms represent.
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Occult Sciences in Pre-Enlightenment Natural Philosophy
Writing about “science and the occult” is made difficult by the significant ambiguity both these terms represent.
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The Female Spectator as an Object in the Horror Cinema
The horror film offers a particularly interesting example of this punishment in the woman’s terrified look at the horrible body…
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Possession, Christianization, and Saints’ Shrines in Antiquity
Even as cultures embraced Christianity, the supernatural landscapes of Mediterranean people and the ancestral spirits that permeated those landscapes persisted…
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Gothumentary: Horror Cinema, Desire, and Sensation
This study indicated an aesthetic shift in Hollywood horror cinema towards a Gothic-realist mode that renders a disturbing reality through…
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The History of Cannibalism, Mythology and Religion
There seem to be plenty of reasons for cannibalism: nutrition and the taste of human flesh, religious motives, warfare, burial…
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Witch-Hunting Trials of 1590 in Eichstätt, Modern Germany
In Eichstätt, Germany, between 1590 and 1631 and during the course of the witch-hunting, between 240 and 273 people were…
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Harmful Misfortune, Witchcraft, and the Will of God
Even in the ‘Malleus Maleficarum’, God was not so passive; Heinrich Kramer and Jacob Sprenger were careful to remind their…
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Male Witches in Early Contemporary Europe Witch-Hunting
An entire body of literature, mainly by avowed feminists, has argued that witch-hunting was in essence woman-hunting, despite the fact…
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Myth, Belief and Past Finno-Ugric Modes of Thinking
The interest in myth studies depends on the central position of myths in worldview and on its possibility to illuminate…
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The Emergence of Irish Gothic Fiction: Locating the Gothic
In this study, I will set out to provide a robustly theorised and thoroughly historicised account of the “beginnings” of…
