Traditions
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Intersections of Indigenous and Tribalistic Gothic
Although Native literature for cultural epistemology is essential, the Indigenous, Tribalistic Gothic literature remains still underutilised.
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Ancestral Welsh, Irish Druidism Preserved Tradition
Tradition preserves their memory as of a pious and superior race, prominently associated with the British Isles and France
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Christian Cruel Responses to Witchcraft and Sorcery
Over two hundred people who were accused of witchcraft and sorcery were burnt to death in South Africa between the…
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The Guilty Pleasures Of American Gothic Reform
Gothic as a genre is particularly concerned with identifying and exposing anachronisms in social law and behaviour.
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Runecasting Gothic Literature And The Other Revival
Runic guidebooks are a popular genre of divination manual designed to facilitate “runecasting” (divination using runes).
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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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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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‘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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Freakshow Traditions And Transformations In Prague
The transformations of the different forms of freakshow exhibitions, beginning with the early nineteenth-century tradition of fairs and mass entertainment.
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Calaveras; Literary Humour In Mexico’s Day Of The Dead
As our understandings of space and society have altered through global perspectives, the universal enigma of death looms like never…
