Culture
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Montague Rhodes James and the Archaeological Uncanny
Does the curiosity of an archaeologist lead to encounters with forbidden things, inviting retribution?
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Mortality and the Presence of Zombies Through Cultures
All cultures understand death because everyone and everything eventually dies. However, there is no clear consensus on what happens after…
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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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Gothic Art Architecture, Painting, Sculpture Across Europe
Gothic art, being exclusively religious art, lent powerful tangible weight to the growing power of the Church in Rome. This…
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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…
