Results 201 to 210 of about 80,551 (254)
Some of the next articles are maybe not open access.

On Witches and Terrorists

Scientific American, 2017
The article discusses witches and terrorists. It includes information on the impact of torture on the accused witches and terrorists to obtain useful information. It also mentions a book "Cautio Criminalis", waterboarding used on journalist Christopher Hitchens, and torture shown in the television program 24.
openaire   +2 more sources

“What Is a Witch?”:

Examining the paucity of historical knowledge of Tituba, the only Black woman in the Salem Witch Trial archives from 1692–1693, this chapter proposes a decolonial method of subjunctive reading by examining Maryse Condé's novel, I, Tituba, Black Witch of Salem.
openaire   +1 more source

Witching the Institution

When we think about the academic institution, where is the witch? Equally, when we think about the witch, where is the academic institution? And why is it that, although cultural representations of witches “coming into” their witching frequently imagine this initiation happening in the classroom, the scholarly study of witches rarely acknowledges a ...
Schaller, Karen, Charnock, Ruth
openaire   +1 more source

Witch Dances and Witch Salves

2008
The idea that witches flew to Sabbaths to worship the Devil through a variety of obscene rites, including perversions of the Christian sacraments, came to play an increasingly prominent role in learned theories of witchcraft over the course of the fifteenth century, and became a crucial element in the early modern witch persecutions.1 It transformed an
openaire   +1 more source

From “Born This Witch” to “Bad Bitch Witch”:

Historically a ghoulish figure that encapsulates all the patriarchy's fears of independent women, the witch has been reclaimed in recently by feminists who reimagine her as either a symbol of women's empowerment or an allegory for their persecution.
Jaime Hartless, Gabriella V. Smith
openaire   +1 more source

Introduction: Witchcraft; Witch Codes; Witch Act

2008
This is the introductory chapter of this book, which examines either the codes (witch codes) that led to the formulation of the 1604 legislation, or those that circulated after the Act (Act of 1604) until its repeal in 1736. It sketches a hypothetical framework in order to examine some aspects of how the codes concerning witchcraft shifted, with ...
openaire   +1 more source

The Witch's Cat

ACM SIGGRAPH Asia 2023 Computer Animation Festival, 2023
Seth Holladay   +3 more
openaire   +1 more source

Good Witch or Bad Witch?

Critical Care Nurse, 2016
Carol, Rauen   +4 more
openaire   +2 more sources

Witches and Warts

JAMA Dermatology, 2016
Eric Laurent, Maranda   +5 more
openaire   +2 more sources

Home - About - Disclaimer - Privacy