Culture
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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…
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Speech, Sexuality, and Witchcraft in Modern Scotland
In 1671, Janet McMuldroch and Elspeth Thomson were both arrested and tried for the serious crime of witchcraft in Dumfries,…
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The Esoteric and Occult Appeal of Neopaganism
Modern paganism is deeply embedded in esotericism, in particular in its nineteenth- and twentieth-century manifestations as romanticism and occultism.
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Occultism and Philosophy in the Seventeenth-Century
Heroes of the seventeenth-century philosophical yet scientific revolution were themselves occultists thought to be rescuing the human mind.
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Exposing Mediumship in Nineteenth-Century America
An overview and open debate about spiritualism played an essential role in the shaping of sceptical perspectives in nineteenth-century America.
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Rebirth of the Gothic in the Metropolitan Legends
Apart from the historical and artistic meanings of the term, Gothic suggests the new and the different in popular culture.
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The Lancashire Witchcraft Stories and Trials of 1612
The well tower at Lancaster Castle where the witches were imprisoned waiting for trial, centuries-old even then, looms over the…
