Culture
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Time Machines and Steampunk in Contemporary Art
Literary and cinematic connections to the steampunk genre continue to be well documented in both scholarly and popular literature
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The Music of the Past in Modern Baltic Paganism
Modern Baltic Paganism grew out of nineteenth- and twentieth-century folklore research into the folk music, folklore and traditional ethnic cultures…
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Apocalyptic and the Gothic Aftermath Through Victorian Times
Victorian culture is often lampooned for its obstinate, reckless progressivism, its racist insistence on the benignity of Western culture, but…
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Rereading Witchcraft Stories, and Why Do We Need to Reread?
This article explores the stories told by and about “witches” and their “victims”, and questions what can be recovered from…
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Jesse Strang and the Cherry Hill Murder
Given the more or less immutable traits of human nature, including our innate potential for violently antisocial behaviour, it is…
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Witchcraft’s Origins in Shamanism, Wiccan, and the Cults
First, we must look at the true origins of witchcraft, those hidden in the mists of time. This is a…
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Catholicism, Heretics, Blasphemers, and the Occult Practices
The Bible has other tales of the occult, sprinkled here and there throughout the Old and New Testaments, but usually…
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In the End as in the Beginning: Traditional Magick Is Not for All
The present article continues Chumbley’s exposition of the Craft of the Witches’ Sabbath, but also treats Crooked Path Sorcery, one…
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Unearthing the Witch, and the Folkloric Diabolical Goddesses
This article examines the witch as depicted through the schemes of those who benefited from the image of the diabolical…
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Theories on the Essence of Art and the Problem of Mannerism
This article tells the story of a complex, unfinished history of how, for a very long time, art historians have…
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Introduction: De-Limiting the Irish Gothic Tradition and Horrors
This article presents a variety of new perspectives on an area of Irish literary production that has received much scholarly…
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Vampire Burials and Social Order in Postmedieval Poland
This article explores the social agency of the dead, focusing on the “vampire burials” of the post-medieval Polish site of…
