Culture
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Torture Museums Exhibiting Historical, Cultural Cruelty
The field of memory and history of torture and cruel punishment is not free from the epistemic divisions that characterize…
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Sea Robbers of all Nations: Pirates of the “Golden Age”
Pirates have probably been around for as long as people have travelled and traded on the seas, with their proto-anarchist…
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An Ethnographic Inquiry of a Coven of Contemporary Witches
The image of witchcraft presented both by informants and literature is a very diverse, highly eclectic belief and behavioural system.
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Salem Witch Hunt and Others in the Seventeenth-Century
Historians of witchcraft know the long shadow cast by the Salem witch hunt of 1692, related to cultural aspects of…
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The Concept of the Undead, and a Carnival of Terrors
The concept of the Undead, and of the beings that haunt the deepest recesses of our minds, continue to both…
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Blood, Disease and the Early Modern Vampire Reports
The Age of Reason and Enlightenment have provided the real stimulus for the vampire, as this period saw a spate…
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Lovecraftian Horror and the Dream of Decadence
‘Lovecraftian horror’ is rooted in late-nineteenth-century cultural fears and desires that arose in response to a renewed interest in the…
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The Representation of Monstrosity in Cinematic Horror
Monsters must be examined within the intricate matrix of relations (social, cultural, and literary-historical) which generate them
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Toward an Aesthetics of Cinematic Horror in Culture
Every culture has ghost stories, for example, but the causes and purposes of these spirits are as varied as the…
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The Inquisitor’s Witchcrafted Devil and God’s Pantheon
The inquisitor merely made a passing reference to sorcery; instead, he focused on the relationship between witchcraft and sexual immorality
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The Seeds of Magic in Contemporary Satanism
One of the strengths of Satanic philosophy is to take that in yourself which would be considered by most to…
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Intersections of Indigenous and Tribalistic Gothic
Although Native literature for cultural epistemology is essential, the Indigenous, Tribalistic Gothic literature remains still underutilised.
