Spirituality

Any distinctive subculture has its own world that must be explained, and the Gothic Subculture is one of these worlds…

In this article, we disambiguate the general uses of “uncanny” and establish the sense of an emotional state directed towards…

The belief system that holds the core of the dark weltanschauung can be summarized in a few fundamental ideas about…

The meaningfulness of life extends beyond death is testified by our transcendent interests or desires.

Mid-Victorian Britain had experienced the manifestations of spiritualism, undoubtedly one of the most controversial aspects of Victorian culture.

A multitude of rituals has been developed over time aimed at reaching the deceased and summoning them to the land…

The English word ‘‘demon’’ derives from the Latin daemon, which itself came from the Greek daimon.

Their representations of the powers it confers on upon man, and of the means to be used to acquire them…

The malevolent witch developed historically not merely in opposition to, but “in part, from” that of the male sorcerer, or…

Victorian magic relied heavily on the nineteenth-century occult and esoteric developments as well as upon an invented tradition of Western…

Underpinning both ancient and modern Christian conceptions of demons, possession and exorcism lay the exorcisms performed by Jesus.