Traditions
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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
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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“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
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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,…
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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…
