Culture
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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…
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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…
