Culture
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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 Ghosts in Scottish Tourism and Other Haunts
The history of Scotland as a prime tourist location. Its landscapes, cityscapes, and habitations interpretatively haunted over the last two…
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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…
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An Historical Outline of the Concept “Grotesque”
Exploring the grotesque in more recent fiction, which has therefore been treated in a less comprehensive way than was planned…
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American Myths, Legends, and Tall Tales of Zombies
Myths are understood as ways in which cultures interpret mysteries of the cosmos and of life, and then impart these…
