Culture
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Johannes Bureus Scandinavian Alchemy in Practice
Johannes Bureus defended the idea that the ancient Goths of Scandinavia were the first rulers of Europe and Sweden the…
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Violent Deaths And The Dark Tourism Phenomenon
As mortal finite beings, as we shall live so we shall die. It is this very premise of the human…
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The Devil’s Mark Was A Witch’s Death Sentence
The belief in the early modern United Kingdom was that the devil branded the bodies of witches with symbolic yet…
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Rumors Of Cannibalism In Sixteenth-Century Brazil
Cannibals embodied the ritualized vengeance and physical incorporation that threatened and found themselves dependent, rather than conquering.
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The Historian’s Myth Of Midwife-Witch Prosecution
Midwives were commonly persecuted as witches in the history of witchcraft and in the history of medicine found in the…
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Neo-African Haitian Voodoo In The Eighteenth-Century
Along with other Afro-American religions in Brazil and the Caribbean, Haitian voodoo constitutes one of the most striking examples of…
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Reviving Colombian Latin American Tropical Gothic
The exploration of the supernatural and the sublime too, are common features of Latin American Gothic that are evident in…
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‘El Fantasma Del Convento’ Early Latin American Gothic
The Mexican horror film ‘El Fantasma del Convento’ displays extraordinary cinematic technique in the visual representation of a haunted place.
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Hammer Film Productions in a Bookish Reciprocity
Hammer Film Productions had run its course by the early 1970s and cinematic production ceased altogether by 1975, yet, still…
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Hammer Film Productions’ Gothic Horror Narratives
Hammer Film Productions was affected by cultural, historical, and industrial factors that were responsible for the studios’ misfortune
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Hammer Film Productions’ and the Classical Gothic History
Hammer Film Productions’ brand of melodramatic Gothic Horror reinvented horror cinema in 1957 establishing a markedly recognizable house style
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Black Death Dread Case Of The Witch-Hunting Craze
From the mid sixteenth-century to mid seventeenth-century witch-hunts reached unprecedented frequency and intensity.
