In the Preface to his 1881 fiction, The Evil Eye or the Black Spectre, William Carleton predicted ―...[the Evil Eye] like other superstitions, it is fast fading out of the public mind. Education and knowledge will soon banish those idle and senseless superstitions: indeed it is a very ...
The classic horror movie The Haunting is an early example, and more recent examples include The Babadook and 1408 in which a writer of books about haunted houses is driven crazy by a hotel room's evil power. These movies use sound effects like banging doors and sudden screams to scare us,...
Dracula has to be one of the most popular and enduring vampire characters in the history of the vampire genre; this guy's longevity is mind-boggling. However, not every Dracula-related movie or TV show does the bloodsucker justice - the lamest Draculas ever really attest to this f...
Out of all the classic movies I watched growing up and in college, there are plenty of underrated gems out there that many have never heard of but should definitely watch. This goes especially for movies with very dark themes like A Face in the Crowd, Ace in the Hole, Sweet Smell of S...
even ghosts – over the course of thirty years as they roam the streets of 1970s Kingston, dominate the crack houses of 1980s New York, and ultimately reemerge into the radically altered Jamaica of the 1990s. Along the way, they learn that evil does indeed cast long shadows, that justice...
Gypsies are noted in the 12th-century history of Constantinople as bear keepers, snake charmers, fortune tellers, and sellers of magic amulets to ward off theevil eye. Balsamon warned the Greeks to avoid these "ventriloquists and wizards" that he said were in league with the Devil. ...
It’s a complicated story of two countries struggling out of the ruins of one, and their eventual reunification. It starts in Nazi Germany with the stories of individuals, illustrating the moral dilemmas of being part of a nation which is doing something utterly evil to some of its own ...
Witchcraft is a term usually applied to harm brought upon others through the use of supernatural or occult powers. The person engaging in witchcraft is called a witch, while the act of causing harm may be termed cursing, hexing, bewitchment, or maleficiu
Weird Sisters, the creatures who prophesy the destinies of the main characters in Shakespeare’s Macbeth. The term Weird Sisters was first used by Scots writers as a sobriquet for the Fates of Greek and Roman mythology. Through its appearance in Raphael
Koreans wrote syllables as distinct blocks but failed to separate words. That was the Chinese tradition, which is still alive in Japan, where the mixture ofkanji(Chinesecharacters) andkana(syllabic symbols based on kanji) helps the eye detect phrase breaks. The Chinese comma and period (a holl...