Scottish Peasantry’s Perception of the Witch Trials
This article pays close attention to the newly formed Protestant Church of Scotland’s perception of witchcraft
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The Scottish Crown, the Protestant Church, and Witch Trials
This article explores witchcraft and witch-hunts in Scotland from the middle of the sixteenth century to the early eighteenth century
The Enduring Sexual Appeal of Vampires
Moving with cat-like grace, he steps from a moonlit alley into a flood of neon lights. Only his piercing eyes might set him apart from the others on the street. I laving traded in his flowing cape for a steel-grey London Fog suburban coat, he prowls the modern streets with self-assurance
Witchcraft and Powerful Women Throughout the Middle Ages
While women were known to be capable of both good and dark magic since ancient times, the depiction of witchcraft as an overwhelmingly feminine pursuit, and the further conflation of witchcraft and sorcery with religious heresy, was a development of the later Middle Ages
The Japanese Peculiar Subculture of Lolita with a Goth-Loli Focus
This article underlines the context in which the Lolita subculture has emerged, the reason why young women started to dress in a princess/doll-like way, what common rules about women and mainstream imagery they are trying to fight against princess/doll-like way, what common rules about women and mainstream imagery they are trying to fight against princess/doll-like way, what common rules about women and mainstream
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Vampires in the Early Christian Era
The great irony of this period is that as the Church moved to fuse the non-Christian mythologies, it would be her own decree that would lend historical validity to the vampire
The ‘Malleus Maleficarum’ Witching Evident Authority
The study of witchcraft has recently enjoyed a boom at all levels, extending from the popular and merely sensational to the erudite and technical
Myths as Gamming Encouragement to Experience the Real
Myths and gaming, an opposition that exists between the individual, as an abstract observer, and nature, as the place of concrete organicity
Description and Analysis of a Gardnerian Wiccan Ritual
According to many theorists, Contemporary Pagan rituals are the primary agent for cohesiveness in an otherwise individualistic and vacillating religious structure
“Horror Film”: How the Term Came to Be
But the arrival of the name, “horror,” possessed power and meaning that resonate to the present day
Vampires Throughout Centuries in Popular Culture
Over the centuries, there have been many incarnations of vampires throughout the world as documented in legend, folklore, historical accounts, fiction and nonfiction writings, cinema, and alleged firsthand accounts of sightings and interactions
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
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 of Latvia and Lithuania
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 their trial records, early news books, pamphlets and personal accounts
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 with words of opprobrium
