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Showing 1 to 20 of 101 for “"Witch"”.
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Scandalous Beginnings: Witch Trials to Witch City
On June 10, 1692, Bridget Bishop was hung as a witch in the community of Salem Village of the Massachusetts colony. Bishop was the first of twenty that died, all of whom professed their innocence. By the end of the madness, more than two hundred persons stood accused of witchcraft. They attempted …
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The Night Witch: The Demonic and the Roman Witch
The Night Witch is a concept found throughout human culture, a category of the female magical practitioner who can only be found in literature and the nightmares of those who imagine her. As the name suggests, she typically operates at night, using violence and magic to ensnare and kill her …
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The Night Witch: The Demonic and the Roman Witch
The Night Witch is a concept found throughout human culture, a category of the female magical practitioner who can only be found in literature and the nightmares of those who imagine her. As the name suggests, she typically operates at night, using violence and magic to ensnare and kill her …
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The Odd Witch
<p>This children's novel follows the young witch, Serendipity, as she navigates a new school and grapples with her lack of ability to wield the power of superstition.</p>
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Bewitching The Stage: Elizabethan And Jacobean Witch-Lore And Witch-Hunt
… project hypothesizes that the early modern stage witch's grotesque femininity and her masculine presumption of agency were the effective signifiers of the feminine covert, what men fantasized about the reproductive secrets of womanhood and their control over the feminine activities. My …
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Cologne During the Witch Hunts, 1627--1662
… thesis examined Cologne during the years that witchcraft persecution was the highest in the city, from 1627-1662. By using a microhistorical approach on primary sources it found that strained relationships were the chief causes of the accusations. This thesis also discovered that in Cologne, at …
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Haunted spaces: Visualising the witch in expanded comics
… is about new ways of engaging with narratives of witch histories. Specifically, it explores the ways that site-specific stories of folkloric witches can be told using papercut as form of expanded comics, using walking and collaboration as creative process. The two papercut stories in the creative …
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Cotton Mather's cosmology and the 1692 Salem witch trials
The Salem witchcraft trials and Cotton Mather's role in them continue to engage the interests of historians and scholars, who have written about them from a number of perspectives, including those derived from most of the social sciences. However, Mather's own seventeenth-century, New England …
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A Shift in Perspective: Temptress Witch to Realistic Woman
… Circe is portrayed as a temptress witch. This dichotomy changes, however, by the time these characters are featured in early 21st-century adaptations of Homer’s work; both released in 2018, Madeline Miller’s Circe and Delia Owens’s Where the Crawdads Sing reclaim Circe’s depiction …
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Witch Hazel Advent, The Story of an Ozark Poet
<p>The goal of this Master's thesis project was to document the life of my maternal step-grandfather, John Ross Rule, in a visually compelling manner. Using equipment provided by the Lemke Department of Journalism at the University of Arkansas, I shot and edited a half hour long documentary film …
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Female bodies as text : disobedient representations of the witch
… on disobedient representations of the witch: what are these; what do they mean and effect in our world and within women themselves? Since as Theatre-maker I variously switched mode from director (in the initial conceptual stages) to designer, writer and actor within the process, this …
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Straight and narrow - Irish witch belief, trials and memory : Straight and narrow: a novel, and Irish witch belief, trials and memory: a critical component
… which takes as its inspiration the Islandmagee witch trial of 1711. Most of the novel is set in a contemporary fictionalised version of Islandmagee, which, based on true events in 2015, refuses to commemorate the witch trial that forms part of the peninsula’s history. Occasional intersecting …
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A novel, Curse of the time witch : and, An essay, The time-slip novel
… worlds emerged. My own novel, Curse of the Time Witch, set in Elizabethan England at the time of the Spanish Armada in 1588, follows Nesbit’s formula to some extent, except that the events are seen through the eyes of a protagonist living in the past who is visited by the other protagonist from …
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Dressing the Witch: Clothing, the Body, and Accusations of Witchcraft in Puritan New England
… dress and clothing, played in the search for witches amongst Salem women in 1692. Of necessity to this analysis is a thorough examination of early American material culture and the role in which early New Englanders interacted with newfound notions of materiality. This analysis examines two …
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The Crucible of History:How Apology and Reconciliation Created Modern Conceptions of the Salem Witch Trials
… alike have been mesmerized by the Salem witch trials. Most of the literature focuses on the trials themselves and takes one of three approaches: anthropological; sociological; or conspiratorial. Recently Gretchen Adams, professor of history at Texas Tech University, approached the trials …
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Identity and Social Structure in Early Modern Politics: How Opportunities induced Witch Trials in Scotland, 1563 - 1736
… 1563 and 1736 there were 3,212 accusations of witchcraft in Scotland. Existing accounts have identified ideology, conflict or anomie as causes of witch trials. However, for the Scottish case, the combination of the extreme temporal and geographical variation of witch trials on the one hand and …
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