Culture
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Monstrosity, Catholicism and Revising 1641 Inhuman Rising
Monstrosity and paranoia dialogue with desire and toleration; the ability of the Gothic to express such competing positions explains why…
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Mediumship or Spiritualism in End-of-the-Century America
In the last few decades, the rise and evolution of the spiritualist movement in nineteenth-century North America has been the…
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Victorian Convicted Murderers and the Press Idolatration
Victorian convicted murderers were the twofold awareness of daily newspapers in criminal justice. Indeed, it was to be characteristic throughout…
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Witch-Hunting Inquisitorial Courts and Belief in Spirits or Magic
Historical witchcraft is to be distinguished from popular and romantic witchcraft, and professional magic. Witch-hunting was an episode in the…
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The Devil of the Inquisitors: Cases of Maleficium and Witchcraft
During the Counter-Reformation in Italy, both the devil and demon possession served as malleable cultural spaces which were successively defined…
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Gothicism to Transcendentalism: The Birth of a Nation’s Culture
Gothicism to transcendentalism, tinged with purity, abnegation and a kind of ingenuousness, suits perfectly to the transposition of the Gothic…
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Madame Blavatsky and the Transformation of the Occult Tradition
Madame Blavatsky provided the inspiration behind the Theosophical Society, probably the leading occult society of the twentieth-century and one of…
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Renaissance Witchcraft and the Evildoing of the Phenomenon
Renaissance witchcraft was inherited from ancient literature, and case studies and primary documents still reveal the need for hesitation as…
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Occult Revival in the Origins of the Victorian Hermeticism
Occult revival in the late nineteenth-century, lead to the formation of a society of practising magicians marked the climax of…
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Serial Murderer, Media Obsession and Control Over Victims
Serial Murderer historical study reveals other criminals who lived in much earlier times and committed atrocities of such magnitude that…
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Fear, Honour and Shame in Horror Stories of the 1950s and 1960s
Fear, honour and shame in horror stories and legends about sausage factories and a woman who killed children at her…
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Devil Worship and Great European Witch-Hunts in the Middle Ages
Devil Worship was prevalent in the Middle Ages by the time the fires of the great European witch-hunts burned out…
