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Witch-Hunting and Witch Belief in the Gàidhealtachd [PDF]
, 2008 In 1727, an old woman from Loth in Sutherland was brought before a blazing fire in Dornoch. The woman, traditionally known as Janet Home, warmed herself, thinking the fire had been lit to take the chill from her bones and not, as was actually intended, to burn her to death. Or so the story goes.
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Molecular Mechanism of ZjWRKY40‐zju‐miR157 Module Regulating Phytoplasma Tolerance in Jujube
Molecular Plant Pathology, Volume 27, Issue 2, February 2026.SJP4JWB regulated the ZjWRKY40‐zju‐miR157 module to modulate the differential phytoplasma tolerance between phytoplasma‐susceptible genotype Fu and phytoplasma‐tolerant genotype T13. ABSTRACT Phytoplasma (‘Candidatus Phytoplasma’), a bacterial pathogen, is a significant plant health concern worldwide, resulting in substantial economic losses. In jujube
Changfeng Ai +13 more
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Prophetic Promise: The Lineal Return of ‘lopp’d branches’ in Shakespeare’s Cymbeline
Renaissance Studies, Volume 40, Issue 1, Page 55-75, February 2026.Abstract This paper identifies the early‐modern conception of prophecy as a word‐magic performed across generations, a verbal promise that anticipates its own realisation in posterity. Just as Francis Bacon upheld the generative force of prophetic utterances by noting their ‘springing and germinant accomplishment throughout many ages’, Shakespeare’s ...
Rana Banna
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, 2016 The Tragedy of Macbeth is widely acknowledged as one of the theatre’s greatest tragedies. The play opens to the end of a massive battle in which Macbeth has just defeated the former Thane who sought to overthrow the king.
Gilliam, Shelby +2 more
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Witches and Demolition Art in Helsinki
Caliban: French Journal of English Studies, 2020 Ana Calvete
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Johannes Trithemius and Witches: Between Religion and Superstition
ReligionsThis contribution reconstructs the reflection on witches of Johannes Trithemius (1462–1516), a German Benedictine who took up the pen on several occasions to declare against the spread of witchcraft and the need to solve this problem.
Giulia Lovison
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‘Ways of death: accounts of terror from Angolan refugees in Namibia’ [PDF]
, 2000 In their accounts of the war in Angola, refugees from south-eastern Angola who now live in Rundu (Namibia) draw a distinction between warfare in the past and the events that happened in their region of origin after Angolan independence in 1975.
Brinkman, Inge
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Emphasizing Common Childhood Anxieties in Children’s Fantasy: An Analysis of the Illustrations in Matilda and Charlotte’s Web [PDF]
, 2017 In children’s literature, illustrations are just as important to story as a book’s text; illustrations contribute to the overall tone of the story and to the way readers interpret its ...
Erhart, Ellie
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On the Articulation of Witchcraft and Modes of Production among the Nupe, Northern Nigeria [PDF]
The political economy of occult belief in Africa can highlight hidden social and political conflict in times of transition which remain otherwise undetected.
Kohnert, Dirk
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This Fire of Contention : Factional Conflict in Salem Village after 1692
, 2014 The Salem witch trials have fascinated historians since the eighteenth century, but as Mary Beth Norton aptly states there is still “much of the complicated Salem story [that] remains untold.” Previous scholarship has failed tell fully the story of the ...
Bridges, Robert S., III
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