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Witchcraft accusation
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Children, Adolescents, and English Witchcraft
… is that of children and their relationship to witchcraft and the witch trials. This thesis begins with a survey of historical done on the general theme of childhood, and moves on to review secondary literature about children and the continental witch trials. The thesis also reviews …
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17th Century Colonial Witchcraft: Before Salem
… and political, and religious contexts of witchcraft accusations in 17th Century colonies, particularly in New England. Additionally, I take as my case study an examination of the Elizabeth Garlick case in 1657. Elizabeth Garlick lived in the Long Island town of what is today East Hampton. …
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King James' Daemonologie and Scottish Witchcraft Trials
… <em>Daemonologie </em>set a framework for future witchcraft prosecutions.
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Witchcraft, rebellion, and misrule : a study of Shakespeare's first tetralogy
… with the structure of power, the roles of witchcraft and diabolism, elements central to 1 Henry VI and Richard III--the first and last plays of the tetralogy--have not been fully analyzed. Witchcraft, introduced by Shakespeare as a structural device with the portrayal of Joan of Arc in 1 …
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A pictorial response to certain witchcraft beliefs within Northern Sotho communities
This study focuses on stories of witchcraft within the Batlokwa - a sub-group of the Northern Sotho community living in the northern Transvaal. Having grown up in this society where witchcraft beliefs are predominant, my fears, as a child, of witches were very real. In later life I have attempted …
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"Under an Ill Tongue": Witchcraft and Religion in Seventeenth-Century Virginia
… and private, in Virginia's dealings with witchcraft during the seventeenth century. The witch trials of New England and Europe during the 1600s have tended to overshadow those that simultaneously took place in Virginia, leaving historians to prematurely regard Virginia as an anomaly of …
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Witchcraft accusations and persecution as a mechanism for the marginalisation of women
In this thesis it is suggested that witchcraft accusations and persecution are being used as a marginalisation mechanism of women. The re-emergence of witchcraft beliefs in contemporary society and the prevalence of the violence associated with such beliefs has received little attention within …
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The discourse of witchcraft in Jacobean drama : a case study of Elizabeth Sawyer
Utilizando el Nuevo Historicismo como enfoque crítico, esta tesis pretende ofrecer una visión general del fenómeno de la brujería que, desde la Antigüedad y a lo largo de toda la Edad Media, va añadiendo elementos hasta convertirse en un discurso que, en el Renacimiento, compartirá características …
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English Imperial Selfhood and Semiperipheral Witchcraft in The Faerie Queene, Daemonologie, and The Tempest
… and English writers’ representations of witchcraft. I discuss the ways that witches oppose Protestant patriarchal norms in the first book of Spenser’s 1590 poem The Faerie Queene, James I’s 1597-1603 tract Daemonologie, and Shakespeare’s 1610-11 play The Tempest. The Scottish and Irish …
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Powerful Magic: Sorcery, Magic, Witchcraft and the Spanish Inquisition as Catalysts for Women's Power
… This paper investigates women's use of witchcraft and sorcery as a means of obtaining power and purpose in predominantly patriarchal Spain. By relying on Spanish Inquisition records scholars have been able to discover how women challenged gender definitions. Using these records I argue …
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The monstrous female: monstrosity in the Anglo-Saxon monstrous and early modern witchcraft traditions
… informed the early modern Scottish and English witchcraft traditions. This new analysis of witchcraft literature will involve re-conceiving it as part of a much longer continuum of monstrosity that may be traced to the Anglo-Saxon Marvels of the East. An analysis of witches in relation to …
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Dressing the Witch: Clothing, the Body, and Accusations of Witchcraft in Puritan New England
… and its relationship to those accused of witchcraft throughout the duration of the Salem witch trials, this analysis hopes to provide a fuller understanding of the implications of appearance in accusations of witchcraft and the importance of clothing and the body in Salem society and …
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Psychiatric, traditional and other interpretations of Ukuthwetyulwa : a witchcraft phenomenon in the Western Cape
This paper attempts to address the way in which a phenomenon that has been constructed within a traditional African framework, is confronted by and reinterpreted within a western psychiatric framework. This in turn may shed light on the way in which psychiatric and traditional discourses may be …
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Saints, virgins, and the Devil: Witchcraft, magic, and healing in the northern coast of Ecuador
This dissertation presents the ways by which people experience and express social and economic change through rituals and narratives in Muisne, a town in the northern coast of Ecuador. Change is mediated through a complex cosmology based on the opposition between the domain of the divino, centered …
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