More recently, movies like "Sabrina the Teenage Witch" and "The Love Witch" have made women who dabble in the dark arts symbols of pop empowerment, occupying their own space between the earthly and the supernatural and connecting ancient traditions to modern rituals. Featuring: Häxan...
There are no widespread witch hunts or constant fear associated with the neighborhood spinsters and widows. The destigmatization of witches is seen more and more in our everyday lives as popular stores sell tarot cards and crystals. While smudging with sage and owning a spell book is a ...
Interest in threat hunting has been steadily climbing in the last few years. This is no surprise, of course, as security breaches, attacks, and privacy regulations areregular features in national news. More and more people are aware of everyday threats. Luckily, we can track some trends, dir...
What are some examples of modern-day witch hunts? What was the European witch craze? What are some modern-day examples of witch hunts? What was the fenestrated man in witchcraft punishment during the European witch craze? What event directly sparked the Boston Massacre? Which country had the ...
capturing the essence of the poems in a visually striking way. Some of my favorites are the ones accompanyingHetty Green, the “Witch of Wall Street”,Emily Post’s “Etiquette Book for Ghosts”, andThe Hallowe’en Homicides on October 31, 1981. The last one is especially poignant, undersco...
If I just don't like someone for some reason (and some are rather silly), then I ignore them. There are many other smart and helpful people here with posts that I would rather read. If someone doesn't like me for whatever reason and decides to ignore me, that is fine too. People ...
witch hunts wherein women were slain unjustly, leaving some scholars to think that the women are protecting themselves from men. Others, however, believe his depiction of mad women in Hell is his way of deriding women by claiming they are mad for trying to upset and overturn the status quo...
Of course, witchcraft is nothing novel.Historically, witches were typically women who had been accused of dealing in “dark arts.” In medieval and early modern Europe as well as the colonies across the Atlantic, witch hunts and witch trials led to the persecution and punishment of thousands of...
Witchcraft is divination and magic practiced by witches. Witches are considered in Scripture to be evil and mean, despite the attempts of some to say today that there is a such thing as a “good witch.” Shows such as “Bewitched” and “Wizard of Oz” have ruined us into thinking that...
The Rowling affair serves to remind us that sometimes the victims of witch hunts are not those who identify as witches, but those who deny the existence of witches—those who won’t go along with the fantasy. The Salem hysteria of 1692 ...