| 单词 | witchcraft |
| 例句 | Local people came to these places at night and either dug for treasure or practiced witchcraft, Haas said. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Addison himself claimed to be neutral on the subject: he believed in witchcraft in principle, but not in the validity of any particular accusation of witchcraft. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Secondly, Thomas held that individuals were identified as practising witchcraft and demonic magic as a result of social tensions, particularly with regard to the distribution of charity. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z It was as if a witchcraft had been worked upon it. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Among the many scapegoats chosen were elderly women living alone, who were charged with witchcraft: Kepler’s mother was carried away in the middle of the night in a laundry chest. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The Christian churches could not abandon their belief in miracles and angels, but Christians could certainly retreat from their insistence on the reality of witchcraft, demonic possession, poltergeists, levitation and second sight. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z This sometimes took the form of accusing women of practicing witchcraft. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z There were no poker-faced sitcom martians in his part of Africa, no oil-rich hillbillies or aproned brides trying to wean themselves from the practice of witchcraft. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z He’s off ter the finest school of witchcraft and wizardry in the world. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z Apart from his natural feelings for his mother, if she were convicted of witchcraft he would be unlikely to be able to hold on to his Imperial appointment. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z “You can cast witchcraft out into a goat—or as many goats as you need. I want you to cure my elder wife.” The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z Bentley is thus, as his choice of name indicates, prepared to meet the freethinkers on common ground at least when it comes to witchcraft, while defending the established Church. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z “Not disobedience. This girl is charged with witchcraft.” The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z The thought of Nina altering his appearance with her witchcraft was intolerable. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z “Not that I hold anything against the Quakers. But this woman has no proper reputation. She’s been accused twice of practicing witchcraft.” The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z Arguments for belief in magic and witchcraft were largely abandoned. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z My father knew a lot about witchcraft, but he had no place for magic in his own life. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z Their brows shiny with perspiration, the evangelists sat speechless as Limela unleashed his blasphemous tirade, drawing parallel after parallel between Christianity and witchcraft. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z Lupita’s teacher had told the class over and over that witchcraft was foolish superstition. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z Bentley is thus an advocate of the Thomas thesis: an improved technology for dealing with disease, combined with better scientific knowledge, undermined belief in magic and witchcraft. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z “Did I tell you about the time that Mechtild was charged with witchcraft?” Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z Ruva was known to sleepwalk, which could be the first sign of witchcraft. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Especially since last year, I’d spent a week building up my courage to ask the librarian for a book on magic squares, and when I did, she said they didn’t carry books about witchcraft. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z No witchcraft, no enemy action had silenced the rebirth of new life in this stricken world. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z I come from a country where people have been arrested and tried for witchcraft—in a court of law. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z I pretended not to notice and went on to witchcraft, told him the Zaire leopard story. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Yet it is clear that belief in witchcraft among the educated elite diminished rapidly in the early eighteenth century. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z “There’s no old woman, and no witchcraft either could bring on a plague like this.” The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z Apparently, by some freak or witchcraft, it could not penetrate here. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z “I do not question your right to charge someone with witchcraft, it is so in custom. But you are fools, fools for drinking the devil’s whiskey!” Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Uncle Kufa wanted to be sure they didn’t go home with more witchcraft than they arrived with. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z If a child died mysteriously, someone in the community could single out a woman and accuse her of using witchcraft to kill the child. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z In a nearby village I appeared for a local medicine man charged with witchcraft. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “There seems to be no evidence of witchcraft,” he announced, when order had been restored. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z Bentley surely did not think that Boyle, Newton, Sydenham and Ratcliffe had directly attacked belief in witchcraft; and he probably knew that Boyle had been all in favour of such belief. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z “Mr. Noah, you’ve been accused of murder. You used witchcraft to kill David Kibuuka by causing him to be struck by lightning.” Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z I think it’s a much- underestimated part of modern witchcraft. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child 2016-07-31T00:00:00Z He has been criticized for doing so, on the grounds that this is not really an explanation at all, since the new science and scepticism towards witchcraft represent merely two sides of the same coin. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Though my parents differed on many things, including the usefulness of Christianity to black people, they agreed on one thing: the power of witchcraft. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z The punishment for refusing to bow to the king was worse than the punishment for witchcraft. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z Medicine was just a little better than witchcraft. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z This time she had another maid with her, a stocky woman with a red face and red hands who was obviously not afraid of Meggie’s powers of witchcraft. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z The new attitude to evidence, which Sprat had praised as ‘this Inquiring, this scrupulous, this incredulous Temper’, had encouraged a general scepticism of miracles, providences and witchcraft. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z There may be no technological or sociological explanation for the decline in belief in witchcraft in the early eighteenth century, but there is an alternative explanation ready to hand. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Illnesses, bad luck and unemployment were caused by witchcraft, and only the timely intervention by my ancestral spirits—through a powerful witch doctor as an intermediary—could relieve anyone of such suffering. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z She crouched down—and remembered the zango, the charm against witchcraft that Masvita had tied around her arm so long ago. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z “This is not thy deception, nor thy witchcraft: it is the work of nature. She was roused, and did—no miracle—but her best.” Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z “People round these parts say you all are some kinda magic witches or something. I don’t believe in no witchcraft myself, but I do believe you people are up to no good.” Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z She had two miscarriages, and people began to whisper, saying that if she couldn’t have children, it must be due to witchcraft. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z And because a curandera had this power she was misunderstood and often suspected of practicing witchcraft herself. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z The greatest distraction, though, came in the years after 1615, when Kepler’s mother was accused of witchcraft. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z I consider that Therese may be deluded, for who would accuse her of such an evil as witchcraft? Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z DELPHI: “A much-underestimated part of modern witchcraft”—you two are the greatest, you know that? Harry Potter and the Cursed Child 2016-07-31T00:00:00Z My grandfather would not allow any talk of witchcraft in his presence. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Thinking that the small red rubber rings were objects of witchcraft he put them in his pocket so that Pilar Ternera could have a look at them. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z I know very little about astrology except that my mom’s church calls it witchcraft. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z The answer lies somewhere between witchcraft and Western medicine. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z There’s some interesting local history of witchcraft here, too. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z Second, there is the decline of belief in magic and witchcraft, already hinted at in Lafeu’s speech, if we take ‘modern’ to mean something more than just ‘ordinary’. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z “The Quaker woman’s. Down by Blackbird Pond. She’s been a curse on this town for years with her witchcraft!” The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z In South Africa, faith in the Holy Trinity exists quite comfortably alongside belief in witchcraft, in casting spells and putting curses on one’s enemies. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z In England scientists and clergymen still inhabited a common culture, and there was no division between them when it came to belief or disbelief in magic and witchcraft. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z That’s what you do with witchcraft; the only way to destroy it is to burn the physical thing. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z “If by witchcraft, you mean the arcane practice of reading. Your commander said we’d be tried for our crimes. I want you to tell me just what crime I’ve committed.” Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z For Glanvill, and others like him, the new science was intended to serve as a bulwark against materialism and atheism; being modern and believing in witchcraft went hand in hand. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z We children were led to believe that the world was steeped in voodoo, witchcraft and sorcery. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z “The spirit of witchcraft is leaving me! Protect me! Don’t let it come back!” The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z As I mentioned, these wizards command great armies of children to do their witchcraft, and each night they prowl the villages for fresh recruits. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z She didn’t believe in witchcraft, but she knew her audience. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z The church directed soldiers to crush “enemies” in their midst—people who questioned or did not follow church doctrine, women who were suspected of witchcraft, and commoners in general. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z My sensibilities became sharpened to the point where I began paying singular attention to little oddities that previously I had dismissed without thought, now thinking that they were manifestations of witchcraft. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z Anyone else with even a touch of power would be accused of witchcraft and sentenced to death. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z It would be easy to think of witchcraft, too, as belonging to a more primitive dispensation, inappropriate in this new sedate, cool, quiet and reasonable age. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z It would be checked the following day for evidence of witchcraft. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Thus, in simple terms, Bentley was right: the new science did undermine belief in magic and witchcraft, just as it undermined belief in astrology and alchemy. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z The boy denied having anything to do with witchcraft, as well he might, but his fellow tribesmen refused to believe him. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z While Stevenson was with them, a boy was accused of witchcraft after a twelve-year-old girl he had touched died from a seizure. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z Charles watched in silence but he must have found my behavior absurd, especially when I began to pull on my ear, which still ached dully, so I could test the limits of this strange witchcraft. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z The rumors of Meggie's supposed powers of witchcraft had obviously reached this girl's ears, too. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z “We want to leave and take all the witchcraft away.” The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z “That is the trickery of the witchcraft,” he said. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z “We met a blue monkey and were slaves in a plastic mine. Tendai and I were accused of witchcraft. Oh! And we had chicken pox.” The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z “Me? Come with you? I hate witchcraft! Go away, you dirty zombies! Get out of Resthaven—and take this with you!” The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z “As if it would take witchcraft,” she said with a sniff, “to get Solomon Porritt mooning round my cottage.” The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z In some countries in sub-Saharan Africa, they are attacked for their body parts which are prized in witchcraft. Burkina Faso TV star inspiring fellow albinos to excel without fear or shame 2020-03-02T05:00:00Z Now, I hate to make sweeping generalisations, but if you’re going to practise witchcraft, then you’re going to need a broomstick. Broomsticks, T-shirts and coffee: what every feminist wants for Christmas 2016-12-07T05:00:00Z Devil’s Salt A woman is accused of witchcraft in 17th century New England in Jovanka Bach’s new drama. L.A. theater openings, Nov. 27-Dec. 4: 'La Virgen de Guadalupe, Dios Inantzin’ and more 2016-11-24T05:00:00Z They got into witchcraft to take their power back. The power of Hannah Waddingham's character Mother Witch in "Hocus Pocus 2" 2022-10-01T04:00:00Z It’s no wonder that once we grew tired of whispering chants in our bedrooms we decided to take our witchcraft more seriously. Witch ways: knowing your heart’s desire is modern witchcraft 2019-02-16T05:00:00Z The novel is about mythmaking in a way, and the stories we tell, and part of that myth is the story of women being accused of witchcraft. Paula Hawkins on 'Into the Water,' her follow up to 'The Girl on the Train' 2017-05-03T04:00:00Z Those pursuits draw the attention of two passing Jesuit priests who arrest Claus and try him for witchcraft. Review | Daniel Kehlmann’s ‘Tyll’ — a future Netflix series — follows a German jester navigating war-torn chaos 2020-02-20T05:00:00Z Other Salem stories blame Tituba, an enslaved woman in the household of the Reverend Samuel Parris, for teaching witchcraft to the local girls. Most witches are women, because witch hunts were all about persecuting the powerless 2019-10-24T04:00:00Z “Get this door wreath that I believe, as a point of contact, will ward off witchcraft.” Who are Diamond and Silk? How two small-town ex-Democrats found fame as ‘warriors’ for Trump. 2018-04-26T04:00:00Z Three-quarters of her leads were already practicing some form of witchcraft. Zoe Lister-Jones on ‘The Craft’ and Women’s Power 2020-10-29T04:00:00Z Many Navajo traditional believers are loathe to report abuse because of family and community pressures—or even the threat and fear of witchcraft. Navajos’ bad medicine 2012-10-08T18:15:00Z Many more witches were put to death before the law against witchcraft in England was finally repealed in 1736. Blake Morrison: under the witches' spell 2012-07-20T21:55:10Z Boston’s Court of Assistants, which presided over cases of witchcraft, declared her not guilty. Most witches are women, because witch hunts were all about persecuting the powerless 2019-10-24T04:00:00Z As an expert witness in a witchcraft trial, Browne is ambivalent. Weird science 2015-07-02T04:00:00Z In the arts, pretentiousness is the brand of witchcraft used by scheming cultural mandarins to keep the great unwashed at bay. In defence of pretentiousness | Dan Fox 2016-02-09T05:00:00Z His father, Leonard, a power company lineman, was a descendant of Mary Bradbury, who was tried for witchcraft at Salem, Mass. The author's mother, Esther, read him the "Wizard of Oz." Ray Bradbury, author of 'Fahrenheit 451,' dies 2012-06-06T15:02:47Z “Stylistically speaking, people have conflated witchcraft with various subcultures that present a similar aesthetic – goth, grunge,” explains writer Carly Lewis. ‘We are the weirdos’: how witches went from evil outcasts to feminist heroes 2015-08-28T04:00:00Z It was a small class filled with women and nonbinary people and it was a safe place to intimately dive into the social and political impacts of witchcraft in the 20th and 21st centuries. All the witchy things I do to stay connected to the occult this season and every season 2023-10-27T04:00:00Z One of the hallmarks of her genius is to approach her themes from unexpected subject positions, like the enslaved woman who faces a witchcraft trial in “I, Tituba, Black Witch of Salem.” 2 Novels by ‘Alternative Nobel’ Winner Take On Power and Its Abuses 2020-05-05T04:00:00Z Paganism, specifically witchcraft, is said to account for the Rollright Stones’ existence. Beyond Stonehenge, searching for Britain’s stone circles “I don’t think there are any realistic portrayals of witchcraft in modern pop culture,” argues Lewis. ‘We are the weirdos’: how witches went from evil outcasts to feminist heroes 2015-08-28T04:00:00Z It’s an Age of Aquarius curio, based on a 19th-century study of witchcraft and featuring alternately flowery and surprisingly graphic depictions of sex. Japan Cuts Film Festival at Japan Society Emphasizes the Eccentric 2015-07-03T04:00:00Z A showpiece of the Society’s exhibition “The Salem Witch Trials: Reckoning and Reclaiming,” the window had once stood in the home of Rebecca Nurse, a Salem woman who was hanged for witchcraft in 1692. Sarah Ruhl and Rebecca Taichman on Conjuring ‘Becky Nurse of Salem’ 2022-11-09T05:00:00Z Kurlander groups all these — as well as the Nazi obsession with the Holy Grail, witchcraft, Luciferianism, World Ice Theory, anti-gravity machines, astrology and pagan religions — under the rubric “the supernatural imaginary.” It turns out ‘Raiders of the Lost Ark’ wasn’t so far off about the Nazis 2017-08-01T04:00:00Z There’s more than a little witchcraft at work on this lovely and playful recording: Pianists play duets with each other, even though they are in different rooms and at different times when they do so. Reviews: Classical Music Albums 2016-01-04T05:00:00Z In an article for The Times, Jason Zinoman called the film an “indie gem,” writing that the “contentious mother-daughter relationship is rooted in such heartbreaking realism that it evokes ‘Lady Bird,’ plus witchcraft.” What’s on TV Sunday: ‘Trump and Taxes’ and ‘Pyewacket’ 2018-10-07T04:00:00Z He used witchcraft and deals with the Devil to become rich. The seven most terrifying Christmas traditions around the world 2019-12-18T05:00:00Z Part of the story is the “satanic panic,” in which D&D was accused of witchcraft. ‘Of Dice and Men’: the lure of Dungeons & Dragons 2013-08-22T21:09:02Z Because the etiology of allergies proved elusive, those who treated the disorder were accused of practicing “witchcraft,” as one allergist complained in 1956. Review: ‘Another Person’s Poison,’ Matthew Smith’s Book on Food Allergies 2015-05-24T04:00:00Z He compares the prejudice that exists in the absence of clear racial boundaries to that against women who, for centuries, were charged with witchcraft, which likewise did not exist. How Moving to France and Having Children Led a Black American to Rethink Race 2019-10-14T04:00:00Z An attempted escape to France lands them in Zugarramurdi, a Spanish border town known for its association with witchcraft. ‘Witching & Bitching,’ a Spanish Horror Comedy 2014-06-12T04:00:00Z So often, in a witchcraft story, the way a woman will become a witch is she has to recite the Lord's Prayer backwards, or she has to sign her name in a book. "We all want to be the final girl": Sady Doyle on true crime, slasher films and surviving patriarchy 2019-08-27T04:00:00Z Most Puritans who claimed to be victims of witchcraft were also female. Most witches are women, because witch hunts were all about persecuting the powerless 2019-10-24T04:00:00Z Dahl’s witches didn’t have hair or toes, whereas now witchcraft is less gruesome and more glamour or goth. ‘We are the weirdos’: how witches went from evil outcasts to feminist heroes 2015-08-28T04:00:00Z And so did Shaw – though he regarded their illegible prescriptions as little more than the paraphernalia of medieval witchcraft. Bernard Shaw and his lethally absurd doctor's dilemma 2012-07-13T21:54:04Z The sketch ends with the actress donning a witch hat and flying away on a broom, a reference to O'Donnell's claim years ago that she dabbled in witchcraft in high school. O'Donnell is first political target of SNL season 2010-09-26T13:16:00Z They believe the books must be banned — even burned — because their positive portrayal of magic is likely to attract unsuspecting children to real-world witchcraft. What do protests about Harry Potter books teach us? 2017-06-27T04:00:00Z Toby Stephens as Rochester seems right to accuse Wilson's Jane of witchcraft – and, in an episode that other versions omit, she learns from the "dark arts" of a gipsy fortune-teller. The classics revisited 2011-08-20T23:04:02Z In 1782, as Europe was embracing the spirit of Enlightenment, a small town in Switzerland tortured and killed a woman for witchcraft. Bern Ballett: Witch-Hunt – review 2013-05-23T17:21:10Z She is also interested in psychic phenomena and Wicca, otherwise known as contemporary witchcraft. Meet the Mediums of Lily Dale 2018-08-04T04:00:00Z WD4C recently held a demonstration at a courthouse, where a number of people believed that Ruger’s skills were akin to witchcraft. Meet Ruger: the American dog who put 150 African poachers out of business 2016-03-08T05:00:00Z In the middle of the 20th century, she starts to specialize in witchcraft. Before Wikipedia, there was the Oxford English Dictionary 2023-10-22T04:00:00Z Our fascination with witches has long surpassed witchcraft being a crime punishable by death. Witch ways: knowing your heart’s desire is modern witchcraft 2019-02-16T05:00:00Z This is, after all, the principal religious building in the country, and you are, after all, making a film about witchcraft. The Carpetbagger: 'Harry Potter' and the Continuity Question 2012-02-07T14:00:33Z On the internet she found “a little witchcraft” that she’s been wanting to try. ‘Man Cave’ Review: Things That Go Bump in the American Night 2022-03-14T04:00:00Z Might he be learning witchcraft from a magus, as the catalog suggests? Art Review: ‘Mantegna to Matisse,’ at the Frick Collection 2012-10-18T21:43:09Z The Swiss town that ordered Europe's last execution for witchcraft will unveil a memorial on Friday for the woman beheaded more than 200 years ago, accused of bewitching a child. Swiss memorial to atone for killing of 'witch' in Age of Enlightenment 2014-06-13T04:00:00Z Hobbes said the same: "I think not that their witchcraft is any real power; but yet that they are justly punished, for the false belief they have that they can do such mischief." Blake Morrison: under the witches' spell 2012-07-20T21:55:10Z As she stood in the gallows, having been sentenced to death for witchcraft, Maria called a curse upon anyone in her family, then or ever, who fell in love. Cursed for Life? Not So Fast, Say Alice Hoffman’s Witches 2021-10-12T04:00:00Z “Yes, it’s just like the Salem witch trials — when those young women were accused of witchcraft and then said, ‘We did witchcraft,’ in an interview with Lester Holt.” Stephen Colbert Doesn’t Think Trump Is the Subject of a ‘Witch Hunt’ 2017-06-16T04:00:00Z There are plenty of fascinating books about witchcraft in history and about Salem in particular, but the one I like best is “The Devil in the Shape of a Woman,” by Carol F. Karlsen. Chris Bohjalian Can Read for Hours in the Bath 2021-04-22T04:00:00Z Both stories feature storms, witchcraft and hallucinogenic plants. Midsommar: what the hell just happened? Discuss with spoilers 2019-07-08T04:00:00Z Religions and witchcraft are not the same thing. “Vodou is like a gun” (and that’s how you spell it) 2013-03-10T00:00:00Z In each hourlong episode, actors play out the reports of demonic possession, mass arrests and public hangings that contributed to the death of 20 innocent men, women and children accused of witchcraft. What’s on TV Sunday: ‘Mr. Robot’ and ‘Peaky Blinders’ 2019-10-06T04:00:00Z “Lemonade” is less a dramatization than a daydream, infused with black magic, embracing — if only notionally — African tribalism, science fiction, menstruation and witchcraft. Beyoncé Unearths Pain and Lets It Flow in ‘Lemonade’ 2016-04-24T04:00:00Z CW’s reboot of the witchcraft drama “Charmed” aims for another kind of update. This Fall, Everything Old Is TV Again 2018-09-05T04:00:00Z No doubt such advice was appealing to women hoping to find a strategy for sexual success, and male readers fantasizing that they themselves might become the prey of such “sexual witchcraft.” Sex at the Satan Club 2014-03-08T00:00:00Z The first known drowning was that of Libby Seeton, a young girl who was accused of witchcraft. Does Paula Hawkins’s new novel ‘Into the Water’ live up to the hype? 2017-04-26T04:00:00Z If you can’t beat her, the thinking seemed to go, then make a bunch of sexist, ageist memes accusing her of witchcraft. Perspective | There was nothing soft about Nancy Pelosi 2022-11-18T05:00:00Z His father, Leonard, a power company lineman, was a descendant of Mary Bradbury, who was tried for witchcraft at Salem, Mass. The author’s mother, Esther, read him the “Wizard of Oz.” ‘Fahrenheit 451′ Author Ray Bradbury Dies at 91 2012-06-06T14:50:36Z “These are extremely backward communities,” she said, “still believing in witchcraft, still believing in child marriage. These are the banes of this part of the district. Health, hygiene, nutrition—everything is a concern.” The Diverging Paths of Two Young Women Foretell the Fate of a Tribe in India 2018-09-07T04:00:00Z That those bad things appear to have involved some measure of witchcraft and, as the Season 2 premiere confirmed, cannibalism, is part of the appeal. How the ‘Yellowjackets’ ‘Weirdos’ Fell in Love and Wrote a Hit Show 2023-03-27T04:00:00Z My favourite red lipstick tale, which unfortunately is disputed by historians, is that a law was passed in the 1770s banning it, aligning it with “witchcraft” and “trickery”. What do Rihanna and I have in common? We know the power of red lipstick 2019-06-07T04:00:00Z Things she has successfully given in the past include a half-eaten bag of frozen chicken tenders, a book about witchcraft and a broken hot dog roller, like the ones in convenience stores. Buy Nothing is everything 2023-02-06T05:00:00Z Nomadic tribes also seemed impervious to accusations of witchcraft. What sparked our fear of witches — and what kept it burning so long? 2017-10-12T04:00:00Z “I have this speculative idea that hundreds and hundreds of years ago, there was the ‘domestication of electrons’ through witchcraft,” she said. Moon-landing conspiracy theorists aren’t all the same. Meet some from the Pacific Northwest. 2019-07-12T04:00:00Z Intrigued by the book, Mr. Page asked her to write an article about Navajo witchcraft. Jake Page, Editor Who Made Science Accessible, Dies at 80 2016-02-12T05:00:00Z Their friendship remains mysterious, yet the film, as if by witchcraft, makes their connection feel palpable and true. ‘Queens of the Qing Dynasty’ Review: Secret Soul Mates 2023-05-04T04:00:00Z Nollywood’s films are famed for tales of romance and witchcraft and often depict lavish social gatherings that are the bedrock of Nigerian life. Cameras roll again in Nollywood but Nigeria's cinemas still dark 2020-05-27T04:00:00Z And the witchcraft case of Katharina Kepler presents an irresistible opportunity to reflect on social paranoia, family dynamics and female agency. Review | The story of Europe’s infamous witch trials gets the Monty Python treatment 2021-05-24T04:00:00Z An advocate of Englightenment and reason in a land of powerful religious traditions, Goya at the start of the 19th century gave dark life to folk beliefs in witchcraft. Witches have always cast a wicked spell over art 2012-12-17T15:09:03Z The accusation of witchcraft hangs over the family. In This Novel, Witchcraft Makes Women Powerful, and Vulnerable 2022-08-09T04:00:00Z His paintings and prints make the potency of night terrors real and frightening – but what frightens us is not witchcraft but superstition, madness and human irrationality. Witches have always cast a wicked spell over art 2012-12-17T15:09:03Z Scarlet and black are the dominant colors in the production’s surreal vision of a kingdom torn apart by witchcraft and bloodshed; actors’ faces painted ashen gray further the sense of grotesque circus theatricality. A potent tragedy for the Twitter age: It's the 95-minute 'Macbeth: Revisited' 2017-04-14T04:00:00Z Despite these protestations of her virtue, How was subsequently tried for sundry acts of witchcraft “to theyr great hurt.” A Witch’s Brew of an Exhibit Enters the Modern Age in Salem 2021-10-20T04:00:00Z Scots earned a reputation as peerless witch hunters after King James VI of Scotland published a treatise on witchcraft, “Daemonologie,” in 1597. A Deadly Storm, a Witch Hunt and a Village Without Men 2020-02-12T05:00:00Z That mad quest for immortality is only one thread in an intricate narrative that encompasses witchcraft, impossible transformations, hairbreadth escapes, killer clowns and an assortment of innovative murders. Review | In ‘Something More Than Night,’ Raymond Chandler and Boris Karloff are a winning crime-fighting duo 2021-11-28T05:00:00Z Women, with their weaker wills, “were understood to be more susceptible to witchcraft”, Ms Schiff writes. Madness in Massachusetts 2015-11-12T05:00:00Z Alchemical books inhabit a subcategory of books on the occult — books on magic, books on astrology, books on witchcraft, metaphysics and alternative-belief systems, including hermeticism, a world view based on Greek and Egyptian writings. The hidden charms of occult books 2011-08-20T23:06:01Z And I think Morpheus was aware of how personal my own interest in witchcraft was becoming. Witches of America: how I became immersed in a growing movement 2016-10-29T04:00:00Z And in the 2011 TV series Camelot, she was the Arthur’s malevolent half-sister Morgan, a woman obsessed with witchcraft. Eva Green: ‘I don’t want to be put in a box marked Weird Witch’ 2016-05-03T04:00:00Z The congregation opposed the infamous witchcraft trials, published the first anti-slavery tract, baptised Benjamin Franklin, and hosted the meetings that led to the Boston Tea Party. Historic psalm book could fetch $30m 2013-04-17T12:17:24Z But it was also a time when an act forbidding accusations of witchcraft was thought necessary, and natural philosophers still justified their investigations into the deep past against the ludicrous timeframe established by Bishop Ussher. The Tale of Raw Head and Bloody Bones by Jack Wolf – review 2013-01-11T20:00:04Z As an influence, Pullman cites The Secret Commonwealth, a treatise written by Scottish clergyman Robert Kirk in the early 1690s on the world of fairies, witchcraft and second sight. Philip Pullman Has Made a Career Building New Worlds. He’s Not Done Yet 2017-10-19T04:00:00Z The game has been accused of fomenting Communist subversion and of being “a feeding program for occultism and witchcraft.” Dungeons & Dragons Saved My Life 2014-07-18T04:00:00Z He wrote several more books, including a time-travel story and one about 17th-century witchcraft, but clung to his ambition of writing something tough and contemporary for older teenagers. Melvin Burgess: a life in writing 2013-04-11T06:00:03Z By 1532, she had borne the sultan six children — something so unheard of that many suspected witchcraft. The Woman Who Smashed a Glass Ceiling in the 16th Century 2017-11-22T05:00:00Z Prior to Salem, most witchcraft trials in New England resulted in acquittal. Most witches are women, because witch hunts were all about persecuting the powerless 2019-10-24T04:00:00Z Where Harkness excels is with her charmingly offbeat details of witches and witchcraft, especially whenever Diana and her Aunt Sarah take center stage. ‘The Book of Life,’ the final volume of Deborah Harkness’s All Souls Trilogy In the 1690s, long before we had a First Amendment, a Boston merchant named Robert Calef dared to publish a book denouncing the witchcraft trials in Salem. Perspective | A hateful, conspiracy-filled book just got harder to buy. That’s no cause for celebration. 2019-09-23T04:00:00Z And the play is strongest in these scenes, when it bridges Rebecca Nurse’s witch trial with Becky Nurse’s contemporary witchcraft. Review: ‘Becky Nurse of Salem’ Brings the Witches but Forgets the Magic 2022-12-04T05:00:00Z He became a coven leader, started writing witchcraft books and threw himself into one progressive cause after another. This Life: For this witch, Wicca is about personal responsibility and growth 2017-10-26T04:00:00Z As his characters grapple with violence, isolation and modernity in far-flung corners of the country, the lines of reality can blur, often through magical and otherworldly explanations drawn from folklore, witchcraft and religion. How Mia Couto’s Words Help Weave the Story of Mozambique 2023-03-11T05:00:00Z A blend by Black Phoenix Alchemy Labs, meanwhile, offers to make you smell like Hecate, the three-faced Greek goddess of witchcraft. Smells like witch spirit: How the ancient world’s scented sorceresses influence ideas about magic 2021-10-30T04:00:00Z Part abused victim, part avenging riot grrrl, Jeanne takes up witchcraft, ultimately becoming so powerful that the feudal lord who first violated her tries to enlist her as his ally. Two ’70s Movies on Video Enter the Valley of the Cult Heroines 2016-10-21T04:00:00Z She’s also unstable, a menace to her husband’s career and an apparent believer in witchcraft. Books of The Times: ‘The Invisible Code’ by Christopher Fowler 2013-12-18T21:56:32Z “I practice witchcraft in my own way,” she said. Witches of Bushwick Is a Social and Creative Group in Brooklyn 2014-02-12T23:42:18Z There is no more welcome witchcraft than granting oneself the ability to write well until the day you die, and to this extent, at the very least, she bewitched. Shirley Jackson and her bewitching biography, 'A Rather Haunted Life' 2016-09-30T04:00:00Z It was there that I learned about all the types of witchcrafts and how most people follow their own personalized practices. All the witchy things I do to stay connected to the occult this season and every season 2023-10-27T04:00:00Z Eventually, continuing witchcraft rumors forced the Parsons family to resettle in Boston. Most witches are women, because witch hunts were all about persecuting the powerless 2019-10-24T04:00:00Z That discovery thrusts him into the center of a mysterious string of deaths, which are the apparent product of witchcraft. What’s on TV Friday: ‘The Pale Horse’ and ‘Stargirl’ 2020-03-13T04:00:00Z Final thoughts Is the American witchcraft community a bit pathetic, to be scared of a few puny Mu … sorry, No-Majs? Five things we learned about Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 2015-11-06T05:00:00Z Complication, of course, comes standard in high school relationships, even those that don’t involve witchcraft or cannibalism. How the ‘Yellowjackets’ ‘Weirdos’ Fell in Love and Wrote a Hit Show 2023-03-27T04:00:00Z More than 100 currently compete for readers in every imaginable genre — from mysteries and inspiration to history and witchcraft. Review | What do women want? One company is betting it comes between two covers. 2017-12-19T05:00:00Z And now, a bouquet of B: White Stripes – Blue Orchid What witchcraft here? Readers recommend: Songs about the weekend 2010-06-10T23:01:00Z After its surprise release last year, Wesley Morris wrote that the visual album is “less a dramatization than a daydream, infused with black magic, embracing — if only notionally — African tribalism, science fiction, menstruation and witchcraft.” What’s on TV Monday: ‘Bad Santa’ and ‘A Madea Christmas’ 2017-12-25T05:00:00Z She was associated with magic, witchcraft, the moon and creatures of the night such as ghosts. Greek police arrest 2 trying to sell rare Roman-era statue 2021-06-27T04:00:00Z Though the elements were already in existence in the ancient world, the satanic witchcraft connection emerged strongly in the late Middle Ages, after Roman influence spread throughout Europe and Christianity became the dominant religion. What sparked our fear of witches — and what kept it burning so long? 2017-10-12T04:00:00Z The Lancaster-based charity Stepping Stones Nigeria, which campaigns on behalf of children in the Niger delta, recently had a case on its own doorstep of a child being accused of witchcraft. Blake Morrison: under the witches' spell 2012-07-20T21:55:10Z Women accused of witchcraft were often ostracized in their communities, imprisoned or even killed. Women used to dominate the beer industry — until the witch accusations started pouring in 2021-03-15T04:00:00Z “Stop the Rot,” sung in Bemba, criticizes those who still practice witchcraft in Zambia. The Zamrock Band Witch Lost All but One Member. Its Singer Carries On. 2023-05-30T04:00:00Z In both lore and real life, physical differences have been read as warnings of danger, symbols of evil, or evidence of sinning or witchcraft. Scary Is How You Act, Not Look, Disability Advocates Tell Filmmakers 2020-11-17T05:00:00Z I found instead a comfortable and painstakingly designed house with a witchcraft and magic library containing more books about corn dollies than ordinary lodgings offer. The Weird, Mystic Pull of Southwest England 2017-06-27T04:00:00Z She pushed equations until they led into chasms instead of bridges; they bent into witchcraft. Cormac McCarthy’s Unsettling Dream of a Novel 2022-11-28T05:00:00Z Nicolas Cage battles both the plague and witchcraft in a medieval mystery thriller. This week's new films 2011-01-01T00:05:36Z That sounds like fairy-tale witchcraft, but there is nothing especially magical about “The Lobster.” Review: In ‘The Lobster,’ Colin Farrell Plays a Divorced Man in a Loner-Hating Society 2016-05-12T04:00:00Z A shepherdess who heard the voices of saints in the sound of church bells, she led the French army toward decisive victories in the Hundred Years’ War before being tried for heresy, witchcraft and cross-dressing. Joan of Arc, Superstar? Not to the Woman Playing Her 2018-04-11T04:00:00Z Shakespeare's Macbeth bears witness to the fear of witchcraft throughout Europe before the scientific age. Edinburgh festival 2013: our critics' picks 2013-07-15T05:59:01Z A deep dive into the history of witchcraft is also in the works. All Souls Trilogy: Harry Potter for Grown-Ups? 2019-01-17T05:00:00Z This tall tale usually claims black cats will be sacrificed in various witchcraft ceremonies. Halloween myths and urban legends that just won't die 2017-10-31T04:00:00Z Proctor became a critic of the witch trials not long after the mass hysteria began, arguing "the afflicted girls, who had been accusing many of the villagers of witchcraft, were frauds and liars," historyofmassachusetts.org reported. Salem witch trials victim John Proctor’s home on the market for $600G 2018-10-20T04:00:00Z "Buffy" made me interested in my own power — yes, including witchcraft, or specifically: herbalism, studying and caring for plants in a way that has fundamentally changed me. An abusive reckoning for "Buffy," a badass, occasionally feminist show created by a monstrous man 2021-02-19T05:00:00Z Her vision: the first Gothic conglomerate, with “an exorcist on the board, a healthy respect for white witchcraft at all levels, an annual séance.” A Wild, Caustic Satire Packed With the Absurd 2020-11-23T05:00:00Z It's the story of the last woman in Europe to be persecuted for witchcraft, in Switzerland in 1782. This week's new dance 2013-05-18T05:00:16Z And the best parts of “Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness” are the sequences that traffic in zombiism, witchcraft and other dark genre arts. ‘Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness’ Review: Nothing Out of the Ordinary 2022-05-04T04:00:00Z It's strange to say a story with a mythical serpent, accusations of witchcraft and a sacrificed goat is too subtle, but "The Essex Serpent" is. "The Essex Serpent" review: Apple TV+ series needs more bite 2022-05-14T04:00:00Z In the process, I would come to understand a lot more about the American witchcraft movement. Witches of America: how I became immersed in a growing movement 2016-10-29T04:00:00Z There are his highly theatrical adventures like “Spectral Evidence,” which he created for New York City Ballet in 2013 and took inspiration from the Salem witchcraft trials. Angelin Preljocaj’s Meditations on Movement 2016-04-13T04:00:00Z And even when men faced allegations of witchcraft, it was typically because they were somehow associated with accused women. Most witches are women, because witch hunts were all about persecuting the powerless 2019-10-24T04:00:00Z In short, Section 365 is not a remnant of the old laws that held that witchcraft was real. Hello magic and witchcraft, goodbye Enlightenment 2018-10-31T04:00:00Z By some kind of witchcraft, she persuaded me in minutes that everything was going to be all right. Learning 'Lear': Feeling the Pain 2014-07-11T04:00:00Z Arthur Miller with The Crucible resounds with so many political issues, but he doesn't get stuck with the witchcraft. Athol Fugard berates dramatists for failing to confront injustice 2010-08-30T14:59:00Z And it was possible to be accused of witchcraft for breaking the Puritanical sumptuary laws and “sadd colors” dress code. A Witch’s Brew of an Exhibit Enters the Modern Age in Salem 2021-10-20T04:00:00Z More quotidian phenomena are attributed to women and witchcraft too. In This Novel, Witchcraft Makes Women Powerful, and Vulnerable 2022-08-09T04:00:00Z Othello is also charged with witchcraft: how else could a black man have successfully wooed Desdemona? Blake Morrison: under the witches' spell 2012-07-20T21:55:10Z And in “Pyewacket,” a recent indie gem, the contentious mother-daughter relationship is rooted in such heartbreaking realism that it evokes “Lady Bird,” plus witchcraft. Home Is Where the Horror Is 2018-06-07T04:00:00Z O’Donnell told Bill Maher “I dabbled in witchcraft,” which spurred her to run a campaign ad announcing “I am not a witch,” which was parodied on “Saturday Night Live.” Delaware is famous for corporations, chemicals, chickens — and now, finally, a president 2020-11-13T05:00:00Z When you look at the original 'Paradise Lost' film, you see three kids who can't defend themselves, being persecuted in a medieval way -- witchcraft, satanic worship. Bullied as a kid, Peter Jackson fights back on film 2012-01-22T00:25:35Z There, an hour’s drive off the grid, stood 100 acres of tough-to-tread land completely dedicated to witchcraft. Witches of America: how I became immersed in a growing movement 2016-10-29T04:00:00Z At the same time, I also received many messages, from readers of a range of beliefs – pagans, Catholics, atheists – who were excited to see contemporary witchcraft practice depicted for a larger audience. Witches of America: how I became immersed in a growing movement 2016-10-29T04:00:00Z Then he began researching some of the subjects that fascinate him, like 19th-century medical instruments, witchcraft and anthropology. A Tattoo Master, Off the Street, Into the Gallery 2011-03-25T20:47:08Z Photograph: Annie Collinge Venus X has previously described DJing as a kind of witchcraft, but on the day I meet her she seems more goddess than witch. Venus X: 'I don't like pretending to be stupid' 2012-06-09T23:05:07Z Ironically and sadly, almost none of the women and men accused of witchcraft were actual magic practitioners. Hello magic and witchcraft, goodbye Enlightenment 2018-10-31T04:00:00Z Densely packed with figures, they presented lurid, Boschian visions of the Last Judgment and the torments of hell rooted in images related to healing and witchcraft remembered from childhood. Malangatana Ngwenya Dies at 74; Mozambican Painter 2011-01-09T02:26:09Z The magic, the shapeshifting: it is all there in the play, born of Shakespeare's own world, in which magic, witchcraft and summoning spirits were all part of the landscape of belief. Ill met by marionette: the puppet Midsummer Night's Dream 2013-03-04T19:00:01Z Recently a Canadian woman was charged with pretending to practice witchcraft under a law on the verge of disappearing from the Canadian Criminal Code. Hello magic and witchcraft, goodbye Enlightenment 2018-10-31T04:00:00Z Since the notion of witchcraft is involved in this case, the bishop probably thinks that any commemoration will lead to levity: to dressing up, wearing pointed hats and cackling, to groups of goths drinking cider. Can an equation find out whether a subject is suitable for risk-free levity? 2012-07-28T23:06:06Z Webster’s neighbors accused her of witchcraft in 1683, when she was around 60 years old, claiming she worked with the devil to bewitch local livestock. Most witches are women, because witch hunts were all about persecuting the powerless 2019-10-24T04:00:00Z It’s a joke, one that came back to haunt Kepler when his mother was accused of witchcraft. Elon Musk and the Failure of Our Imagination in Space 2018-06-14T04:00:00Z On the other hand, some people reject Halloween because of its pagan origins and its perceived association with witchcraft and the devil. Tricking and treating’s long history 2018-10-30T04:00:00Z Rowling's hugely popular novels telling of battles between good and evil in a fantasy world of witchcraft hits theaters this week, unleashing Pottermania upon the world once again. "Potter" fans hope to keep magic alive after movie 2011-07-14T19:11:38Z In Salem, beginning in 1692, dozens of people were accused of practicing witchcraft and 19 were hanged, according to the Salem Witch Museum. The Getaway: Halloween Tours That Give You the Creeps 2012-10-17T16:47:46Z Eventually, Proctor, his wife and the majority of their family were accused of witchcraft. Salem witch trials victim John Proctor’s home on the market for $600G 2018-10-20T04:00:00Z In that extremity, Circe discovers the labor and, eventually, the power of witchcraft. Review | The original nasty woman is a goddess for our times 2018-04-09T04:00:00Z One of this week’s Halloween-holdover series focuses on devil worship and witchcraft. 4 Film Series to Catch in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-10-31T04:00:00Z She knows so much more than they ever will, yet, for her troubles, she’s been accused of witchcraft or, worse, watched helplessly as her diagnoses are disregarded. Perspective | In Starz’s enjoyably escapist ‘Outlander,’ a relevant story line about finding the cure 2020-04-07T04:00:00Z Tituba was the enslaved black woman who was the first person accused of practicing witchcraft in the infamous Salem Witch Trials. Tayari Jones: In Praise of Ann Petry 2018-11-10T05:00:00Z In Salem, 14 of the 19 people found guilty of and executed for witchcraft during that cataclysmic year of 1692 were women. Most witches are women, because witch hunts were all about persecuting the powerless 2019-10-24T04:00:00Z It’s witchcraft, Ichabbie quickly deduces, somehow tied to that Liberty Bell knockoff in the town square. 'Sleepy Hollow' recap: 'Awakening' of Katrina 2015-02-17T05:00:00Z They got into witchcraft to take their power back. The power of Hannah Waddingham's character Mother Witch in "Hocus Pocus 2" 2022-10-01T04:00:00Z The smashing of sacred relics conjures society’s most archaic reactions: in this case, imprisonment, public shaming, flogging, concerns of Satanism, witchcraft, hysteria. Protest music?s odd conservative turn 2012-05-21T15:38:00Z Patricia comes to him with assertions—and a diary—in which she sets out the connection between the group’s political terrorism, witchcraft, and the Markos Dance Company. Review: Luca Guadagnino’s “Suspiria” Is the Cinematic Equivalent of a Designer Che T-shirt 2018-10-30T04:00:00Z By coincidence or not, some children were nearby, playing a witchcraft game in which they cast murderous spells. Books of The Times: ‘The Invisible Code’ by Christopher Fowler 2013-12-18T21:56:32Z During the six years of immersion that ensued, I made a documentary about modern witchcraft, and eventually dove even deeper to write a book, Witches of America. Witches of America: how I became immersed in a growing movement 2016-10-29T04:00:00Z Recalled and arrested, Göldi protested her innocence, but under torture confessed to witchcraft and was publicly beheaded. Bern Ballett: Witch-hunt – review 2013-05-25T23:05:46Z Since the 1960s, the “pagan” movement – what most people are referring to when they talk about American witchcraft today – has grown into a hard-to-dismiss new religious movement. Witches of America: how I became immersed in a growing movement 2016-10-29T04:00:00Z As historian Rebecca Beatrice Brooks explains, "Many of the accused witches were outspoken women, Quakers, slaves, colonists with criminal backgrounds and/or prior witchcraft accusations or colonists who criticized the witch trials." Season of the witch: How the word, and the concept, made a big 2018 comeback 2018-05-29T04:00:00Z It’s my little act of witchcraft: I thumb through the pages and suddenly it’s resurrected — my feeling at 18, sitting with my aunt in the Richard Rodgers Theater watching “In the Heights.” Paging Through Broadway While the Stages Are Dark 2021-01-18T05:00:00Z Blame the eldest daughter of witchcraft, of course. Paranoia Reigns in the Trailer for 'The Witch' 2016-01-12T05:00:00Z Rowling’s latest story on North American witchcraft and wizardry dives deep into American history, specifically the Salem Witch Trials. J.K. Rowling Reveals the Connection Between Salem and American Wizardry 2016-03-09T05:00:00Z “Ecate” is about Hecate, the Greek goddess of witchcraft and necromancy. Review: Ufomammut Slowly Glides From Riff to Riff, at Saint Vitus 2015-05-20T04:00:00Z “As he could not be declared guilty of witchcraft, he was excommunicated as a suicide,” Stacy Schiff writes in “The Witches: Salem, 1692,” her haunting new book on the Salem witch trials. Stacy Schiff’s ‘The Witches’ Shines a Torch on Salem Trials 2015-10-25T04:00:00Z In addition to royal history, Lloyd often deviates into other aspects of medieval and Elizabethan England, including several Shakespeare-themed episodes and a mini-series on the history of witchcraft. 5 Podcasts About the Royal Family 2022-12-27T05:00:00Z The circus riding shown them at Hamburg was wicked witchcraft. From the archive, 25 June 1889: Berlin leaves African visitors cold 2012-06-25T06:30:00Z It’s a ludicrous claim: She can’t read or write or “even win at backgammon,” let alone carry out witchcraft. 15 New Books Coming in June 2021-05-26T04:00:00Z In many parts of the world, people still believe in witchcraft and its mischief. Blake Morrison: under the witches' spell 2012-07-20T21:55:10Z Redondo evokes the gloomy, sodden beauty of the Baztán valley, a corner of north-east Spain with a long association with witchcraft and the dark arts. 10 of the best novels set in Spain – that will take you there 2020-05-12T04:00:00Z They are, presumably, referring to the Salem witch trials, when 19 people in 17th-century Massachusetts were executed on charges of witchcraft. Most witches are women, because witch hunts were all about persecuting the powerless 2019-10-24T04:00:00Z The only shift has been packaging witchcraft as a more grown-up take on women attempting to take control of their own destinies. Witch ways: knowing your heart’s desire is modern witchcraft 2019-02-16T05:00:00Z Referring to the employment of arcane arts as witchcraft takes on entirely different connotations, though. Bring on the witching hours: “AHS: Apocalypse” and the sisterhood that will save us 2018-10-30T04:00:00Z "It doesn't have anything to do with witchcraft!" he protests. Peter Gabriel: 'It doesn't have anything to do with witchcraft!' 2010-06-02T20:30:00Z Hillary Clinton was accused of being into witchcraft by the Pizzagaters. "We all want to be the final girl": Sady Doyle on true crime, slasher films and surviving patriarchy 2019-08-27T04:00:00Z More than 400 years ago, a few miles away from where my friends and I sat in the woods, a group of 12 people were arrested for practising witchcraft. Witch ways: knowing your heart’s desire is modern witchcraft 2019-02-16T05:00:00Z To get his wife out of the way, Abigail makes witchcraft accusations. Most witches are women, because witch hunts were all about persecuting the powerless 2019-10-24T04:00:00Z A scholar from his teens, he sponsored the authorized version of the Bible in English, but believed that one of his ships had been sunk by witchcraft. A Thriller Set in Jacobean England Delves Into a Notorious Murder 2019-05-31T04:00:00Z For me, Morpheus recommended a priestess in Massachusetts of the same specific witchcraft tradition in which she had trained – a smaller, particularly intense and ecstatic branch of the Craft known as Feri. Witches of America: how I became immersed in a growing movement 2016-10-29T04:00:00Z "We're just trying to use the witchcraft as a backdrop to explore otherwise relatable issues that these kids are going through as they transition into adulthood and as they define themselves." The CW invites you into its 'Secret Circle' 2011-09-15T19:10:04Z In the 16th and 17th centuries, tens of thousands of people — possibly hundreds of thousands — were killed for practicing witchcraft. Review | The story of Europe’s infamous witch trials gets the Monty Python treatment 2021-05-24T04:00:00Z In 1692 writhing girls in the Massachusetts village of Salem, steeped in Puritan teachings about the devil and perhaps also bored, began hurling charges of witchcraft at village women. Madness in Massachusetts 2015-11-12T05:00:00Z Conversely, East Africa is one of the few regions where Harry Potter hasn't been translated, because of the real powers still associated with witchcraft. Walking the tightrope between translation and interpretation 2010-06-18T11:14:00Z “The biggest misconception is that this is witchcraft. It is not witchcraft,” Mr. da Prato had said to me, smiling for a moment. The Italian Winemakers’ Cult 2016-10-25T04:00:00Z But I couldn't help noticing he had books about witchcraft on his shelves. Blake Morrison: under the witches' spell 2012-07-20T21:55:10Z For example, while witchcraft is a common source of anxiousness in many African societies, it is unlikely to be a source of fear in modern Western cultures. Our new era of anxiety 2012-06-02T22:00:00Z To westerners, witchcraft has become almost flippant superstition, like avoiding a black cat. Michael Stanley's top 10 African crime novels 2010-06-30T14:27:00Z Terrific views can be had from the belfry tower, famous because back in the Middle Ages, citizens used to throw cats from it to control overbreeding, and, perhaps, to ward off witchcraft. The 52 Places Traveler: A Pilgrimage to Ypres 2018-08-28T04:00:00Z In England, the Witchcraft Act of 1735 stopped citizens being punished for supposedly committing acts of witchcraft. Why are we in love with witches? 2012-07-05T14:18:20Z During her lifetime, Jackson’s offbeat novels, combined with her fascination with witchcraft, ghosts and haunted houses, made her a difficult figure for reviewers to place. ‘Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life’ 2016-09-15T04:00:00Z The Secret Service of Gilead is located in the Widener Library, where I had spent many hours in the stacks, researching my New England ancestors as well as the Salem witchcraft trials. Margaret Atwood on What ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ Means in the Age of Trump 2017-03-10T05:00:00Z In the second episode, their recalcitrance results in witchcraft trials, based on those at Salem. Not in this day and age: when will TV stop horrendously airbrushing history? 2017-05-05T04:00:00Z The story is set in rural Shropshire, where a country girl’s discovery of a magical flower whisks her into a world of witchcraft and adventure. 'A full English every morning': how UK food and weather inspires Japanese anime directors 2018-05-04T04:00:00Z Yes, the film, a 17th-century-set tale of alleged witchcraft and mass hysteria, has been called “unsettling” and “chilling” but it’s also been referred to as difficult. Did arthouse horror hit The Witch trick mainstream US audiences? 2016-02-23T05:00:00Z Contemporary practitioners might agree with the poem’s conclusion: that witchcraft is not alien at all. Are the Salem Witch Trials Part of Women’s History? 2022-10-21T04:00:00Z After a recent school event I heard back from my school contact that a parent had complained that a "Christian school" had allowed me to come in and pedal an evil book featuring witchcraft. James Dawson: why teens in books can't swear 2012-07-11T08:03:27Z Why is the fear of witchcraft so widespread and tenacious? 13 new Halloween reads to chill, amuse, inform and terrify 2017-10-25T04:00:00Z As seen through Starhawk’s anarchist, ecofeminist lens, witchcraft was not just a way to acquire magical powers, but was a deeply political act. Monsters, men and magic: how Trump awoke a powerful, angry new wave of feminist witches 2019-08-07T04:00:00Z Most of Ms. Snyder’s books were intended for readers 9 to 13 and delved into subjects like witchcraft, murder and dysfunctional families. Zilpha Keatley Snyder, Author of Eerie Children’s Tales, Dies at 87 2014-10-13T04:00:00Z The Fabled Coast is full of such a projection's stronger, darker side: "Wrecks at sea might be attributed to several supernatural factors, including witchcraft, sacrilege, and ignoring a bad omen or taboo." The Fabled Coast by Sophia Kingshill and Jennifer Westwood - review 2012-08-03T21:55:09Z Set in a West Country village, it's the story of Nell, the cunning woman's granddaughter, and what follows when she and her beloved granny are suspected of witchcraft. Michelle Harrison's 10 best bad fairies 2011-03-23T13:52:18Z “A lot is expected of us,” echoed Ronan, who is making her Broadway debut as Abigail Williams, the teenager who venomously accuses the village’s most virtuous citizens of witchcraft. Broadway’s man of the moment: Ivo van Hove 2016-03-10T05:00:00Z This Goya etching speaks of the trade in stealing teeth, but here I think the artist is referring to the theft of teeth for use in witchcraft and sorcery. This Exhibition Has Real Bite 2018-06-07T04:00:00Z Queen of Italian giallo terrors, she starred in classics such as the witchcraft film “Black Sunday” and the Edgar Allan Poe anthology “Castle of Blood.” Hoping for a Spooky Halloween? We Have Some Suggestions 2019-10-24T04:00:00Z Jason Healey, the director of the Cyber Statecraft Initiative at the Atlantic Council, argues that it is “worth doing to show that cyberoperations are not evil witchcraft but can be humanitarian.” Obama Sees Limited Options for Cyberwar in Syria 2014-02-24T22:03:46Z At its lowest points, witchcraft stopped being subversive or frightening and became just another costume. Monsters, men and magic: how Trump awoke a powerful, angry new wave of feminist witches 2019-08-07T04:00:00Z One marginalized woman earns special focus in the society’s presentation: Tituba, an enslaved servant in the Salem household of the Rev. Samuel Parris, whose daughter and niece accused her of witchcraft. Are the Salem Witch Trials Part of Women’s History? 2022-10-21T04:00:00Z Despite Rowling’s heavy reliance on classic tropes involving good and evil, some conservative Christians object to the presence of magic and discussions of witchcraft in her novels. Perspective | For Banned Books Week, I read the country’s 10 most challenged books. The gay penguins did not corrupt me. 2020-09-27T04:00:00Z “There’s a lot more happening in witchcraft these days than black and long nails and heavy eyeliner.” Seattle’s Museum of Museums is set to open, but there’s still drama over its 3rd floor 2020-10-29T04:00:00Z The Hidden Charms events are organized by Brian Hoggard, a British historian and musician with a particular interest in the archeology of witchcraft. Witch Houses of the Hudson Valley 2019-10-31T04:00:00Z The social background is intriguing – the rivalry between MIT and Harvard; the deep suspicion of science as an adjunct of witchcraft; MIT's scholarships for the underprivileged. Thrillers roundup ? reviews 2012-02-10T22:55:06Z Loyal fans eager to say farewell are expected to drive big numbers for the conclusion of the battle between good and evil in a fantasy world of witchcraft. Final "Harry Potter" wields big wand at box office 2011-07-15T18:21:39Z Fed up, she wrote a humorous fictional script, incorporating witchcraft into its plot. Actress Heather Graham Turns From #MeToo to Toil and Trouble 2018-02-24T05:00:00Z Her brother Taff was born, and her mother was found guilty of witchcraft. Summer Book Club: 'Out of This World' Early techniques included subjecting someone to a water test: Those who sank were considered innocent, while floating indicated guilt, lies and witchcraft. Are polygraph tests reliable? 2018-10-03T04:00:00Z Which, as far as writer Fariha Roisin is concerned, marks a big distinction between the way movies and TV depict witchcraft and what witchcraft actually is. ‘We are the weirdos’: how witches went from evil outcasts to feminist heroes 2015-08-28T04:00:00Z Ilvermorny: A detailed account of this school isn’t available at this time, but based on the map revealed on Pottermore it’s the American school of witchcraft and wizardry located on the East Coast. J.K. Rowling Reveals All 11 Wizarding Schools in the Harry Potter Universe 2016-01-30T05:00:00Z Religion and magic were still floating around in the culture in a pool with “superstition,” “witchcraft,” and “lying.” The Book of Mormon’s foggy origins 2012-08-12T16:01:00Z “Dolls and pins are a creation of Hollywood, closer to German and English witchcraft than to African witchcraft,” says Professor Bellegarde-Smith. “Vodou is like a gun” (and that’s how you spell it) 2013-03-10T00:00:00Z There was also an APA paperback guide to New York State, science fiction, a book on witchcraft and various dog-eared crime novels. Public bookshelves spread across Germany 2011-10-14T11:36:09Z Then she thinks: “But saying it’s hormones is the same as saying witchcraft or sorcery. What’s the difference between hormones and magic potions? Neither of them are believable or explainable.” Review: ‘The Dark Dark,’ Beguiling Tales of Women in Metamorphosis 2017-08-02T04:00:00Z Growing up on the original site of the 1692 witch trials, the girls are convinced that witchcraft will propel them to victory. Flashback to the ’80s 2020-03-12T04:00:00Z Perhaps the most vilified animal on our planet, they are often associated with witchcraft, but here things were different. 'Hippos snapped my last boat in half': Planet Earth II's hairiest moments 2016-12-11T05:00:00Z The story’s “curse” is a community’s decision to blame this incipient disaster on witchcraft, a cowardly act of scapegoating that leaves them defenseless against the very real apocalypse at hand. Turning the ‘Curse of Ham’ Into a Blessing 2019-01-07T05:00:00Z On the surface, this law looks like the last vestiges of the period of the witch trials: that the Canadian law still implicitly believes in witchcraft. Hello magic and witchcraft, goodbye Enlightenment 2018-10-31T04:00:00Z Its holdings include images of cats and brooms and caldrons, plants used in folk remedies, implements for divination, witches’ garments and tools, and items related to Cornish lore and sea witchcraft. The Weird, Mystic Pull of Southwest England 2017-06-27T04:00:00Z “Accusations of witchcraft were often overwhelmingly hurled at women, particularly those who were poor or older, otherwise marginalized,” she said. Are the Salem Witch Trials Part of Women’s History? 2022-10-21T04:00:00Z She was stunned to learn how many men were charged with witchcraft, and how many of the accusations were leveled by one relative against another. Stacy Schiff’s ‘The Witches’ Shines a Torch on Salem Trials 2015-10-25T04:00:00Z “According to the law of averages, an underground leader can’t last more than six months. You’ve lasted over two and a half years. It’s sheer witchcraft.” Remembering a Woman Who Was a Leader of the French Resistance 2019-03-12T04:00:00Z “I think a lot of feminists, like myself, have romanticized witchcraft for a few reasons,” Cills continued. ‘We are the weirdos’: how witches went from evil outcasts to feminist heroes 2015-08-28T04:00:00Z This holiday special, which follows Season 1 of the “Sabrina” reboot, sprinkles witchcraft and chilly effects into a season usually devoted to cheer. What’s on TV Friday: ‘Roma’ and ‘RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars’ 2018-12-14T05:00:00Z It is perhaps for that reason that some American fundamentalists put it on the list of forbidden genres along with books about witchcraft and wizards. Science fiction probes at religion 2011-07-11T16:02:01Z Is witchcraft going on here, or is that a romantic title? Witches have always cast a wicked spell over art 2012-12-17T15:09:03Z The fundamentalist religious movement, which originated in the early 16th century, preached stricter gender norms and condemned witchcraft. Women used to dominate the beer industry — until the witch accusations started pouring in 2021-03-15T04:00:00Z Last year, Ancestry.com said that actress Emma Watson, who plays teen witch Hermione Granger in the "Harry Potter" movies, is related to a 16th century woman accused of witchcraft. "Twilight"s Robert Pattinson related to Dracula 2010-06-24T00:44:00Z Not just the accusations of witchcraft that both faced, but also Joan's belief in the Wheel of Fortune. Philippa Gregory's how-to on writing about the Tudors 2011-12-29T21:08:06Z Hell, if somebody managed to clap on the twos and fours, they were probably accused of witchcraft. A "House of the Dragon" wedding celebration turns into a crime scene, mainly due to the dancing 2022-09-19T04:00:00Z Set amid a plague in 17th-century France, this chilling novel features a mother who succumbs to witchcraft and a grifter with a gift for the tarot. 9 New Books We Recommend This Week 2018-11-01T04:00:00Z As well as being a gripping gothic read, the book provides historical social commentary on the phenomenon of witchcraft and witchcraft persecution. The Daylight Gate by Jeanette Winterson – review 2012-08-16T07:00:01Z Well over 100 men and women in the Massachusetts Bay Colony were accused of witchcraft and taken into custody. Stacy Schiff’s ‘The Witches’ Shines a Torch on Salem Trials 2015-10-25T04:00:00Z A passage that kicks off with the girls trying to watch an episode of the Nickelodeon series "Are You Afraid of the Dark?" transitions into the pair's innocuous foray into witchcraft. "PEN15" returns for another swim into the messiness of seventh grade 2020-09-18T04:00:00Z They accused Perry of using the 2008 track - which features Lecrae - without permission, tarnishing its "devoutly religious message" with images of "witchcraft" and "black magic." Katy Perry sued by Christian rappers 2014-07-04T04:00:00Z Unlike the female leads in most vampire stories, women in witchcraft stories are typically depicted as strong, capable characters. Witches Are The New Vampires — and That’s A Good Thing 2013-11-11T17:08:08Z Belief in witchcraft resulted in the burning and hanging of thousands more. Review | How scientists came to be 2018-03-20T04:00:00Z That is why Francisco de Goya's images of witchcraft are the most troubling of all. Witches have always cast a wicked spell over art 2012-12-17T15:09:03Z Here is an annihilation of the flesh worthy of his Puritan forebear Andrew Eliott of Salem, a juror in the witchcraft trials. Jeremy Irons Breathes New Life Into ‘The Poems of T.S. Eliot’ 2018-05-17T04:00:00Z When you think of a book written about teenage witchcraft, told through the eyes of a girl, you generally tend to assume that the author is a woman. Hollow Pike by James Dawson - review 2012-06-02T14:00:00Z The list of crimes they were accused of is exhaustive: witchcraft, sorcery, cursing their neighbours, who then languished in their sick beds or fell down dead. Witch ways: knowing your heart’s desire is modern witchcraft 2019-02-16T05:00:00Z “In our African culture there are taboos ... we say ‘this child is cursed’, we will say there is witchcraft, that this child is irrecoverable,” she told Reuters. In first for Gabon, Dorothee finally feels like a woman after surgery 2019-06-20T04:00:00Z It was also used in this part of the world to stir milk when making butter so it's magical properties would dissipate any spells or witchcraft. Ash dieback reaches Cumbria - a county where the tree plays a special part in history and folklore 2012-11-13T10:34:18Z "The Crucible," a morality tale about accusations of witchcraft among the Puritans, was written by Miller partly in reaction to director Elia Kazan's controversial testimony before the House Un-American Activities Committee. Meet Ivo van Hove, the most provocatively illuminating theater director right now 2016-03-18T04:00:00Z Sex and magic are an eerie combination in portrayals of witchcraft. Witches have always cast a wicked spell over art 2012-12-17T15:09:03Z Those accused of witchcraft were almost always completely innocent of magic practices. Hello magic and witchcraft, goodbye Enlightenment 2018-10-31T04:00:00Z Fired from her job at Salem’s witch museum, Becky gives actual witchcraft a try. Sarah Ruhl and Rebecca Taichman on Conjuring ‘Becky Nurse of Salem’ 2022-11-09T05:00:00Z Harkness is descended from a witch — or at least a woman hanged in Salem for allegedly practicing witchcraft. All Souls Trilogy: Harry Potter for Grown-Ups? 2019-01-17T05:00:00Z In it, a family of God-fearing Puritan settlers wrestles with their faith as rumors of witchcraft swirl around the eldest daughter, Thomasin. What’s on TV Sunday: ‘Mrs. Fletcher’ and ‘The Witch’ 2019-10-27T04:00:00Z After the witchcraft trial and the return to Jamie’s ancestral home, Jamie gets embroiled in a plan to screw over some British troops and is once again captured by Black Jack Randall. How to catch up with … Outlander 2016-04-09T04:00:00Z In the end, the faith-based side of Potter mania produced at least five camps that rendered clashing judgments on these books, including: — Rowling intentionally wrote occult books, creating a doorway into witchcraft for young readers. Religion: Final gasp of the 'Harry Potter' wars? 2011-07-18T16:00:06Z He swung down the coast, briefly stopping to behead a minor nobleman for alleged mutiny and witchcraft, before dashing through the treacherous Strait of Magellan at twice the clip of Magellan himself. How Sir Francis Drake and Queen Elizabeth I Made England a Global Power 2021-03-10T05:00:00Z Eleven on trial over child sex abuse and 'witchcraft' Eight found guilty after child abuse ring trial 2023-11-14T05:00:00Z Bridgeford had just come from the Board of Supervisors meeting, wherein she accused a group of Shasta residents who have taken up knitting during the meeting of practicing witchcraft. In Shasta County, a tense special election draws scrutiny from California officials 2023-11-08T05:00:00Z The latest effort comes from a group dedicated to clearing the names of all those accused, arrested or indicted for witchcraft in Massachusetts, whether or not the accusations ended in hanging. Group seeks to clear names of all accused, convicted or executed for witchcraft in Massachusetts 2023-10-30T04:00:00Z In the West, Voodoo is sometimes regarded as evil, or conflated with witchcraft. In Benin, Voodoo’s birthplace, believers bemoan steady shrinkage of forests they revere as sacred 2023-10-28T04:00:00Z Over a nearly 200 year period in Scotland alone, roughly 4,000 individuals were accused of witchcraft. Were midwives the OG witches? How the history of mystic medicine and reproductive health intertwine 2023-10-23T04:00:00Z They condemned seizures as evidence of witchcraft or demonic possession, and killed or castrated sufferers to prevent them from passing tainted blood to a new generation. Stanford scientist, after decades of study, concludes: We don’t have free will 2023-10-17T04:00:00Z A charge that adults made the children participate in classes involving witchcraft and seances was withdrawn when the Crown finished presenting its case on Friday. Witchcraft charges dropped in Glasgow child abuse case 2023-10-13T04:00:00Z The witch justice group helped successfully spearhead a similar effort in Connecticut, home of the first person executed for witchcraft in the American colonies in 1647 — Alse Young. Group seeks to clear names of all accused, convicted or executed for witchcraft in Massachusetts 2023-10-30T04:00:00Z In the ancient city of Exeter, three women were hanged for practicing witchcraft in the late 17th century, the last of such executions in England. A U.K. University Will Confer a New Title: A Master’s Degree in the Occult 2023-10-13T04:00:00Z What's undeniable — and fascinating — is that our modern practice of obstetrics is so sterile, medicalized and frankly masculine that the closest analogue we have for older, more feminine methods is witchcraft. Were midwives the OG witches? How the history of mystic medicine and reproductive health intertwine 2023-10-23T04:00:00Z Just as previous generations thought seizures were brought on by witchcraft, some of our current beliefs about personal responsibility may eventually be undone by scientific discovery. Stanford scientist, after decades of study, concludes: We don’t have free will 2023-10-17T04:00:00Z Dos Bebés is described as an "eccentric" and "superbly crafted" album about "parenthood, motherhood and young children, as well as UFOs, computer science, witchcraft, Welsh independence". Welsh Music Prize 2023 winner announced as Rogue Jones 2023-10-10T04:00:00Z The last witchcraft trial in Connecticut happened in 1697 and ended with the charges being dismissed. Group seeks to clear names of all accused, convicted or executed for witchcraft in Massachusetts 2023-10-30T04:00:00Z It would offering an opportunity to study the history and impact of witchcraft and magic around the world on society and science, bosses said. Degree in magic to be offered at University of Exeter 2023-10-03T04:00:00Z The main opposition leader in Seychelles, Patrick Herminie, has been charged with witchcraft, along with seven others. Seychelles opposition leader Patrick Herminie charged with witchcraft 2023-10-03T04:00:00Z I think that many similar modern indictments of what amounts to female witchcraft could easily be found. Readers Respond to the May 2023 Issue 2023-10-01T04:00:00Z "It is noteworthy that periods of intensified volcanic eruptions, which contributed to the cooling during the Little Ice Age, coincided with peaks of persecution against individuals accused of witchcraft," Lapointe added. What climate change deniers get totally wrong about the Little Ice Age 2023-08-07T04:00:00Z In 2022, lawmakers exonerated Elizabeth Johnson Jr., clearing her name 329 years after she was convicted of witchcraft in 1693 and sentenced to death at the height of the Salem witch trials. Group seeks to clear names of all accused, convicted or executed for witchcraft in Massachusetts 2023-10-30T04:00:00Z A local station claimed a Black Lives Matter co-founder practiced witchcraft. Election disinformation campaigns targeted voters of color in 2020. Experts expect 2024 to be worse 2023-07-28T04:00:00Z He added that the officers searched for items related to witchcraft, including "bones, body parts, and objects associated with Christianity" but did not find any. Seychelles opposition leader Patrick Herminie charged with witchcraft 2023-10-03T04:00:00Z Some of the causative factors at play in centuries of accusations of female witchcraft include economic hardship and dislocation, the need for an alien scapegoat, or “other,” and a strongly patriarchal social structure. Readers Respond to the May 2023 Issue 2023-10-01T04:00:00Z "It is noteworthy that periods of intensified volcanic eruptions, which contributed to the cooling during the Little Ice Age, coincided with peaks of persecution against individuals accused of witchcraft." What climate change deniers get totally wrong about the Little Ice Age 2023-08-07T04:00:00Z "A lot of communities attribute sickle cell to ancestral curses, witchcraft," Ms Bey told BBC Africa Eye. Kenya sickle cell: Fighting to dispel the myths around the disease 2023-06-11T04:00:00Z He said that liberal Protestants embodied “the spirit of the Antichrist” and that feminism drove women to witchcraft. Pat Robertson, Who Brought Christian Conservatives Clout, Dies at 93 2023-06-08T04:00:00Z "In Seychelles' history, there has never been until now, a political party leader arrested for superstition and witchcraft. This is something new and it is shameful for Seychelles," he was quoted as saying. Seychelles opposition leader Patrick Herminie charged with witchcraft 2023-10-03T04:00:00Z The village in the East Neuk has long been associated with witches and witchcraft. Council orders removal of 'gaudy' Pittenweem witch mural 2023-06-01T04:00:00Z It's an old story: A woman is accused of witchcraft by someone close to her—a neighbor, a relative, a rival. How Social Turmoil Has Increased Witch Hunts throughout History 2023-05-31T04:00:00Z Saud Anwar, a state senator who took an interest after a constituent discovered their ancestor was a witch accuser, told the AP that witchcraft trials still take place around the world. Connecticut lawmakers exonerate colonial-era 'witches' 2023-05-26T04:00:00Z Alse Young, who was killed at the gallows in Connecticut, was the first person on record to be executed in the American colonies for witchcraft. Connecticut lawmakers absolve accused colonial-era witches, apologize for ‘miscarriage of justice’ 2023-05-26T04:00:00Z Mr Herminie and his co-accused face several charges, including possession of items intended for use in witchcraft, conspiracy to perform witchcraft and procuring services related to witchcraft, according to local media reports. Seychelles opposition leader Patrick Herminie charged with witchcraft 2023-10-03T04:00:00Z But some Christians hailed its demise, saying it was used for witchcraft. Sierra Leone's iconic cotton tree felled by storm 2023-05-25T04:00:00Z Along with four others, she was murdered in October 2022, allegedly by a group of young men who charged that her witchcraft had caused a recent motorcycle crash. How Social Turmoil Has Increased Witch Hunts throughout History 2023-05-31T04:00:00Z At least 45 people were accused of witchcraft in colonial Connecticut, although the Witch Trial Exoneration Project believes the record is likely incomplete. Connecticut lawmakers exonerate colonial-era 'witches' 2023-05-26T04:00:00Z The courts in the early British colonies of Connecticut and New Haven ultimately indicted at least 34 women and men for the crimes of witchcraft and familiarities with the devil. Connecticut lawmakers absolve accused colonial-era witches, apologize for ‘miscarriage of justice’ 2023-05-26T04:00:00Z The Tanzanian was found with items related to witchcraft, including stones, black wooden artefacts, small bottles of brownish liquid, a collection of powders, and documents with strange language and "demonic and satanic" symbols, they said. Seychelles opposition leader Patrick Herminie charged with witchcraft 2023-10-03T04:00:00Z Influential Pastor Francis Mambu, who heads the Faith Healing Bible Church, believes the tree's roots were used for witchcraft and that it was frequented by witches and wizards. Sierra Leone's iconic cotton tree felled by storm 2023-05-25T04:00:00Z When the elites of New England wrote Bible-inflected legal codes in the early 1600s, they included witchcraft as a crime punishable by death. How Social Turmoil Has Increased Witch Hunts throughout History 2023-05-31T04:00:00Z Other countries have also sought to recognise people that were unfairly persecuted for witchcraft in the past. Connecticut lawmakers exonerate colonial-era 'witches' 2023-05-26T04:00:00Z The Massachusetts Bay Colony’s darkest moment may have come during the 1692 Salem witch trials, when Puritan leaders executed nineteen people for witchcraft. World History: from 1400 2022-12-14T00:00:00Z In response, the daughter said, “he started accusing my mother of witchcraft.” He Told Followers to Starve to Meet Jesus. Why Did So Many Do It? 2023-05-14T04:00:00Z But witchcraft accusations are now often simply a tool to oppress women, victims’ advocates say. India Struggles to Eradicate an Old Scourge: Witch Hunting 2023-05-13T04:00:00Z By 1725 more than 300 people had been accused of witchcraft in New England, nearly four fifths of whom were women. How Social Turmoil Has Increased Witch Hunts throughout History 2023-05-31T04:00:00Z Connecticut lawmakers have voted to exonerate 12 people more than 370 years after they were convicted of witchcraft in colonial America. Connecticut lawmakers exonerate colonial-era 'witches' 2023-05-26T04:00:00Z Barry’s novel “We Ride Upon Sticks” is “about a girls’ field hockey team who resorts to witchcraft so they can go to state.” New Capitol Hill bookstore brings fresh perspective to familiar space 2023-04-28T04:00:00Z She just wants to remove the stigma of witchcraft and sever its demonic associations. Who you gonna call? Vanessa Hudgens, who talks to ghosts 2023-04-14T04:00:00Z From 2010 to 2021, more than 1,500 people were killed in India after accusations of witchcraft, according to the National Crime Records Bureau. India Struggles to Eradicate an Old Scourge: Witch Hunting 2023-05-13T04:00:00Z In Kilifi, Kenya, where hundreds of men are accused of witchcraft every year, hunts often stem from a desire to liquidate an elderly man's land. How Social Turmoil Has Increased Witch Hunts throughout History 2023-05-31T04:00:00Z Dozens were executed for witchcraft in the US in the 17th Century. Connecticut lawmakers exonerate colonial-era 'witches' 2023-05-26T04:00:00Z But as the show started filming, its creator, Esta Spalding, wanted its presentation of modern witchcraft to ring true, and the show’s producers sought out an occult consultant to help them get it right. Horror shows like ‘Mayfair Witches’ hire occult consultants to cast their spells 2023-03-10T05:00:00Z Conversion from Islam to another religion, however, is illegal, as is witchcraft and sorcery, the U.S. Abrahamic House in UAE houses a church, synagogue and mosque 2023-02-21T05:00:00Z Two years ago, a class of eighth-graders in North Andover, Mass., led an effort that resulted in the exoneration of a woman who had been accused of witchcraft during the Salem Witch Trials. Their Ancestors Were Convicted of Witchcraft in Connecticut. They Want Justice. 2023-02-16T05:00:00Z “When I was growing up, there were always accusations of witchcraft, but there wasn't anything like this,” he says. How Social Turmoil Has Increased Witch Hunts throughout History 2023-05-31T04:00:00Z Hundreds of thousands of children across the continent are accused of witchcraft each year, according to a 2022 report by the African Child Policy Forum, an independent research group. Children accused of witchcraft find solace in east Congo shelter 2023-02-08T05:00:00Z Bauer was hired after filming began to help “fill holes” in the script when it came to how witchcraft is actually performed. Horror shows like ‘Mayfair Witches’ hire occult consultants to cast their spells 2023-03-10T05:00:00Z But critics accuse him of practising witchcraft and spreading superstition and doing cheap tricks to impress the gullible masses. Bageshwar Dham Sarkar: The Indian guru making headlines over 'miracle' cures 2023-02-05T05:00:00Z A joint resolution that was introduced in January would name and apologize to the people who were tried for witchcraft in the state some 375 years ago. Their Ancestors Were Convicted of Witchcraft in Connecticut. They Want Justice. 2023-02-16T05:00:00Z Massachusetts has exonerated those who were charged of witchcraft there and issued a formal apology, but a similar effort in Connecticut this spring received unexpected pushback. How Social Turmoil Has Increased Witch Hunts throughout History 2023-05-31T04:00:00Z "At home I was told that my illness was a pretext to better practice witchcraft. They did not take me to get medical treatment," she recalled. Children accused of witchcraft find solace in east Congo shelter 2023-02-08T05:00:00Z “Sometimes people assume you can just lump Voodoo, hoodoo and witchcraft all under the same umbrella,” Grossman said. Horror shows like ‘Mayfair Witches’ hire occult consultants to cast their spells 2023-03-10T05:00:00Z HARTFORD, Conn. — Decades before the infamous Salem witch trials in Massachusetts, Alse Young was killed at the gallows in Connecticut, becoming the first person on record to be executed in the American colonies for witchcraft. Connecticut may exonerate accused witches centuries later 2023-02-01T05:00:00Z “You’ve got scapegoating and fear and accusations and blaming,” said Sarah Jack, a member of the exoneration project group whose ancestor was accused of witchcraft. Their Ancestors Were Convicted of Witchcraft in Connecticut. They Want Justice. 2023-02-16T05:00:00Z Laws against witch-hunting, such as those passed in a number of Indian states, make it easier to prosecute people who accuse others of witchcraft. How Social Turmoil Has Increased Witch Hunts throughout History 2023-05-31T04:00:00Z Last year, Scotland’s prime minister issued a formal apology to the estimated 4,000 Scots, mostly women, who were accused of witchcraft up until 1736. Connecticut may exonerate accused witches centuries later 2023-01-31T05:00:00Z With the expanding opportunities for witchcraft consultants, Bauer is hoping he is called again for future productions. Horror shows like ‘Mayfair Witches’ hire occult consultants to cast their spells 2023-03-10T05:00:00Z At the time, Aloi said, there was a lot of overlap between witchcraft and New Age circles. Witches urge alternatives to sage amid concern about appropriation, overharvesting 2023-01-13T05:00:00Z At 47, she said she considered herself at “prime witch hunt age,” as many of the women who were persecuted over witchcraft accusations in the 17th century were over the age of 40. Their Ancestors Were Convicted of Witchcraft in Connecticut. They Want Justice. 2023-02-16T05:00:00Z Carrier became one of 35 people executed for witchcraft in the British colonies of New England—“crimes” of which some of them still have not been exonerated. How Social Turmoil Has Increased Witch Hunts throughout History 2023-05-31T04:00:00Z In 2022, Massachusetts lawmakers formally exonerated Elizabeth Johnson Jr., who was convicted of witchcraft in 1693 and sentenced to death at the height of the Salem Witch Trials. Connecticut may exonerate accused witches centuries later 2023-01-31T05:00:00Z As witchcraft practice, including Wicca, became more openly accepted, occult consultants began popping up more regularly, credited or not, on shows, including “Charmed,” “Supernatural,” “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” and even the military legal procedural “JAG.” Horror shows like ‘Mayfair Witches’ hire occult consultants to cast their spells 2023-03-10T05:00:00Z Originally the Superior Court of Judicature, created in November 1692, one of its first tasks was hearing the cases of 26 people accused of witchcraft. Hundreds of Salem Witch Trials documents get new home 2023-01-13T05:00:00Z By their end, 11 people — two men and nine women — had been hanged for suspicions of witchcraft. Their Ancestors Were Convicted of Witchcraft in Connecticut. They Want Justice. 2023-02-16T05:00:00Z Every year more than 1,000 people around the world, including men and children, are tortured, expelled from their homes or killed after being charged with witchcraft—using magic, usually to cause harm. How Social Turmoil Has Increased Witch Hunts throughout History 2023-05-31T04:00:00Z In each of the New England colonies, witchcraft was considered a capital offense. Connecticut may exonerate accused witches centuries later 2023-01-31T05:00:00Z More recently, the show “Chilling Adventures of Sabrina” and movies such as “The Last Keepers” and “Practical Magic” have employed witchcraft consultants to great effect. Horror shows like ‘Mayfair Witches’ hire occult consultants to cast their spells 2023-03-10T05:00:00Z Of the 20 people convicted of witchcraft and subsequently put to death, 19 were hanged and one was crushed to death by rocks. Hundreds of Salem Witch Trials documents get new home 2023-01-13T05:00:00Z Allegations of witchcraft could result from things like contracting an illness, having a crop failure or experiencing a marital dispute. Their Ancestors Were Convicted of Witchcraft in Connecticut. They Want Justice. 2023-02-16T05:00:00Z And it declined when the laws were modified to punish witchcraft without such confiscation. How Social Turmoil Has Increased Witch Hunts throughout History 2023-05-31T04:00:00Z The defendant’s invocations of witchcraft may be a cynical lie, but at times, a supernatural act of possession really does seem to be transpiring between the two women. Review: No, movies are not empathy machines — and the brilliant ‘Saint Omer’ shows why 2023-01-12T05:00:00Z “Modern witchcraft is a living practice and it’s a real community of people,” she told Religion News Service in an interview. Horror shows like ‘Mayfair Witches’ hire occult consultants to cast their spells 2023-03-10T05:00:00Z They had become officials in the Baptist Church, and her profession—witchcraft, to Baptist eyes—was damaging their chances of promotion. This Spiritual Tradition Could Be the Most Poetic Bereavement Therapy Ever Documented 2023-01-05T05:00:00Z One of the people convicted was Alse Young, who historians believe was the first documented New Englander to be killed for witchcraft. Their Ancestors Were Convicted of Witchcraft in Connecticut. They Want Justice. 2023-02-16T05:00:00Z Carrier refused to confess, and in August 1692 she became one of the 19 people hanged for witchcraft in Salem. How Social Turmoil Has Increased Witch Hunts throughout History 2023-05-31T04:00:00Z One of them is Michael Tito, an ally of veteran GOP operative and self-described "dirty trickster" Roger Stone who has accused her of practicing witchcraft. Trump allies’ ugly feud devolves into legal threats over accusations of “witchcraft” 2023-01-04T05:00:00Z In the Middle Ages, ventriloquism was considered witchcraft by Christians, which was punishable by death. Kendrick Lamar’s Unconstrained Next Chapter 2022-12-27T05:00:00Z Several said they began practicing witchcraft as part of a growing feminist movement in Argentina that began in 2018 with the fight for legal abortion. Behind Argentina’s World Cup Magic, an Army of Witches 2022-12-17T05:00:00Z Historians believe that she was accused of witchcraft during an epidemic that killed many children, including those of a family she worked for. Their Ancestors Were Convicted of Witchcraft in Connecticut. They Want Justice. 2023-02-16T05:00:00Z The numbers of homeless children in cities rose, as did an increase in witchcraft accusations in the 1990s—especially of children. How Social Turmoil Has Increased Witch Hunts throughout History 2023-05-31T04:00:00Z On Halloween night Locke lit a bonfire and burned "objects of sorcery and witchcraft," including Catholic rosaries and Harry Potter books. Christian nationalists: Wanting to put God into US government 2022-12-16T05:00:00Z "People think you were cursed, or had witchcraft against you, or perhaps that your parents did wrong." Changing the lives of Senegalese people disabled by clubfoot 2022-11-20T05:00:00Z Conjuring up fond memories of this place may border on witchcraft. LOVERRO: Heinicke’s got some magic, Cousins has the whole bag of tricks 2022-11-06T04:00:00Z When her only child, a daughter, survived, others claimed that her use of witchcraft had kept the child alive. Their Ancestors Were Convicted of Witchcraft in Connecticut. They Want Justice. 2023-02-16T05:00:00Z Members of a faction competing for control of the Mongbwalu gold mines accused women who were ethnically linked with an opposing group first of spying, then of witchcraft. How Social Turmoil Has Increased Witch Hunts throughout History 2023-05-31T04:00:00Z This is especially so in a remote community with high levels of illiteracy, where some still link Ebola to witchcraft and choose to address it at home rather than call an ambulance. Uganda’s Ebola responders fret as some people fight measures 2022-11-02T04:00:00Z Curator Ben Paites said about 100 people lost their lives as a result of witchcraft accusations in the county. Colchester Castle's tribute to those accused of witchcraft 2022-10-31T04:00:00Z Visitors to Boston may drive north to Salem, Massachusetts, to learn more about the persecution of people accused of witchcraft in the 17th century. Beaches? Cruises? ‘Dark’ tourists prefer the gloomy and macabre 2022-10-29T04:00:00Z Many of their ancestors were either killed for witchcraft and then buried in unmarked graves or they fled their hometowns in fear, making it more difficult for them to be found by later generations. Their Ancestors Were Convicted of Witchcraft in Connecticut. They Want Justice. 2023-02-16T05:00:00Z Sorcery and witchcraft were forbidden — with some accused practitioners prosecuted and beheaded by the state — and celebrating non-Islamic holidays like Valentine’s Day, Christmas and Halloween was taboo. Saudi Halloween: Once-Banned Holiday Now Haunted by Masked Monsters 2022-10-29T04:00:00Z One might argue Williams has resorted to witchcraft a bit too often in recent weeks as he has faced a constant siege within the pocket. Caleb Williams mastering the art of escape as USC's football Houdini 2022-10-07T04:00:00Z "If you did something someone wasn't happy with, they could use the accusation of witchcraft to have you either chased out of the town or have you executed," he said. Colchester Castle's tribute to those accused of witchcraft 2022-10-31T04:00:00Z Granted, politicians often make what I do sound like witchcraft, but I take this as a compliment. Perspective | Standing up to the new censorship 2022-09-23T04:00:00Z It takes place in a world like ours, but where laws against witchcraft are still routinely used to police women. Review | 4 witchy books from the world of science fiction and fantasy 2022-09-17T04:00:00Z “We could see she was getting better when I brought her home, but witchcraft was used against us,” Ms. Mombeyarara said. More Than 700 Children Have Died in a Measles Outbreak in Zimbabwe 2022-09-24T04:00:00Z “Anxiety about vampires came from people being different,” as was often the case in witchcraft accusations, she added. ‘Vampire’ grave shows 17th-century fear of women who ‘didn’t fit in’ 2022-09-07T04:00:00Z In “The Women Could Fly,” Megan Giddings’ second novel, women are monitored for signs of witchcraft and only the bravest question the status quo. In Angie Cruz's portrait of a neighborhood busybody, the soul of a Latino community 2022-09-08T04:00:00Z But this year, some attendees say, these opponents of witchcraft and paganism have become more aggressive and even dangerous. Pagan and witchcraft festivals confront growing Christian harassment 2022-08-26T04:00:00Z Any unmarried woman over age 30 is suspected of witchcraft and placed under surveillance and may no longer be able to hold down a job. Review | 4 witchy books from the world of science fiction and fantasy 2022-09-17T04:00:00Z “Digging human bones was associated with witchcraft,” he told the Christian Science Monitor. Kamoya Kimeu, renowned fossil hunter in Africa, is dead 2022-08-19T04:00:00Z Hundreds were accused of witchcraft in Puritan New England, including townspeople whose habits or appearance bothered their neighbors or who appeared threatening for any reason. U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z Most women who were convicted of witchcraft in the Massachusetts Bay Colony were exonerated a long time ago. Opinion | Thanks to middle-schoolers like me, there are at last no more Salem ‘witches’ 2022-08-19T04:00:00Z That included the Harry Potter series, which he said his mother, like many other conservative Christians, regarded as a satanic depiction of witchcraft. A mom’s campaign to ban library books divided a Texas town — and her own family 2022-08-11T04:00:00Z Nobody seems entirely sure whether witchcraft is real, and the laws are applied inconsistently, which feels all too believable. Review | 4 witchy books from the world of science fiction and fantasy 2022-09-17T04:00:00Z “Digging human bones was associated with witchcraft,” he told The Christian Science Monitor in 2009. Kamoya Kimeu, Fossil-Hunting ‘Legend’ in East Africa, Is Dead 2022-08-11T04:00:00Z White people who became aware of non-Christian rituals among the enslaved labeled such practices as witchcraft. U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z Like many of the other people accused of witchcraft, Johnson was vulnerable because she was a woman, single and an outcast in her community. Opinion | Thanks to middle-schoolers like me, there are at last no more Salem ‘witches’ 2022-08-19T04:00:00Z In “The Women Could Fly,” witchcraft is the exclusive purview of women — leading the government to strictly monitor and regulate them. Your Wednesday Briefing 2022-08-10T04:00:00Z All women who vanish are investigated for witchcraft, because the government always begins with the assumption that whatever happened to a woman was somehow her fault. Review: Megan Giddings' powerful new novel is a "Handmaid's Tale" for the post-Roe era 2022-08-09T04:00:00Z Eleven people are accused to taking part in a child sex ring which allegedly involved witchcraft, violence and neglect. Eleven accused of child sex ring and 'witchcraft' in Glasgow 2022-08-01T04:00:00Z Relying on their belief in witchcraft to help make sense of their changing world, Puritan authorities executed nineteen people and caused the deaths of several others. U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z Previous efforts to exonerate people convicted of witchcraft overlooked Ms. Johnson, perhaps because of administrative confusion, historians said: Her mother, who had the same name, was also convicted but was exonerated earlier. Last Conviction in Salem Witch Trials Is Cleared 329 Years Later 2022-07-31T04:00:00Z The killing of people with albinism is linked to witchcraft rituals, with practitioners wrongly believing the victim's body parts bring good luck. Malawi men jailed over murder of man with albinism 2022-06-27T04:00:00Z Thousands of people were convicted of practicing witchcraft in Scotland in a hunt that spanned nearly two centuries — and the majority of those sentenced to death and executed were women. Thousands of ‘witches’ could be posthumously pardoned in Scotland 2022-06-23T04:00:00Z They also allegedly got the children involved in "witchcraft", leading them to believe that they themselves had "metamorphosed into animals". Eleven accused of child sex ring and 'witchcraft' in Glasgow 2022-08-01T04:00:00Z They recounted being stripped naked, beaten, pressured into confessing to committing murders through witchcraft and forced to drink a hallucinogenic, herbal concoction. Gambia under Yahya Jammeh: Witch hunts, PTSD and veiled faces 2022-06-11T04:00:00Z Until last week, the Andover, Mass., woman, who confessed to practicing witchcraft during the Salem witch trials, was the only remaining person convicted during the trials whose name had not been cleared. Last Conviction in Salem Witch Trials Is Cleared 329 Years Later 2022-07-31T04:00:00Z Rather than witchcraft, Campbell’s videos might just be a natural extension of TikTok, which got its start with people imitating dances. ‘Body doubling,’ an ADHD productivity tool, is flourishing online 2022-06-01T04:00:00Z In Scotland, at least 2,500 people were convicted and executed on the charge of practicing witchcraft between 1563 and 1736, Don said. Thousands of ‘witches’ could be posthumously pardoned in Scotland 2022-06-23T04:00:00Z Massachusetts lawmakers on Thursday formally exonerated Elizabeth Johnson Jr., clearing her name 329 years after she was convicted of witchcraft in 1693 and sentenced to death at the height of the Salem Witch Trials. 329 years later, last Salem ‘witch’ who wasn’t is pardoned 2022-05-26T04:00:00Z She’s the teenage ringleader of a group of girls who fabricate accusations of witchcraft against upstanding townspeople of Salem, Mass., charges that lead to the execution of innocents. Review | World-premiere plays in D.C. confront trauma in stunning ways 2022-05-20T04:00:00Z In a skeleton drawing of a galumphing, long-gone dodo, a litany of bodily and emotional states, including guilt and yellow bile, is interwoven with attempts to cope — witchcraft, too much sex, strong imagination and more. Review: Mark Dion tackles extinction in his art—and offers neither false hope nor despondency 2022-05-16T04:00:00Z Hale also set the legal precedent for the Salem Witch Trials having, himself, sentenced two women to death for the crime of “witchcraft.” Hearkening back to dark times 2022-05-11T04:00:00Z “This will also signal to other countries around the world where accusations of witchcraft are a very real and current issue that this is not acceptable in the modern day,” the Witches of Scotland said. Thousands of ‘witches’ could be posthumously pardoned in Scotland 2022-06-23T04:00:00Z Johnson was never executed, but neither was she officially pardoned like others wrongly accused of witchcraft. 329 years later, last Salem ‘witch’ who wasn’t is pardoned 2022-05-26T04:00:00Z By the way, Hale also energetically prosecuted women for witchcraft. Samuel Alito's use of ancient misogyny: SCOTUS rewinds to centuries-old common law for abortion ban 2022-05-11T04:00:00Z Hale was on the bench so long ago that his judgeship included presiding over a witchcraft trial where he sentenced two “witches” to death. Opinion | On Roe, Alito cites a judge who treated women as witches and property 2022-05-09T04:00:00Z The first installment of this fantasy trilogy imagines a Royal Coven established by Queen Elizabeth I to handle supernormal incidences and preserve witchcraft’s legacy. 10 noteworthy books for May 2022-05-01T04:00:00Z The diminishing enthusiasm for “Fantastic Beasts” is problematic because witchcraft and wizardry does not come cheap. Box Office: 'Fantastic Beasts 3' Opens to Franchise-Low $43 Million 2022-04-17T04:00:00Z Belief in witchcraft did not vanish overnight, but most of the colony’s leaders soon realized they had made a terrible mistake. Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z Nearly 4,000 people were accused of witchcraft, a vast majority of them women. Scotland apologizes for history of witchcraft persecution 2022-03-09T05:00:00Z And as that witchcraft trial suggests, Hale’s influence has not been a “great” development if you believe women have equal humanity with men. Opinion | On Roe, Alito cites a judge who treated women as witches and property 2022-05-09T04:00:00Z Nicola Sturgeon has offered a formal apology to people accused of witchcraft between the 16th and 18th centuries, many of whom were executed. Nicola Sturgeon apologises to people accused of witchcraft 2022-03-08T05:00:00Z Of the approximately 25 women and girls convicted of witchcraft in the 13 colonies between 1648 and 1692, none met their end strapped to a stake; they were all hanged. Opinion | The historical truth about women burned at the stake in America? Most were Black. 2022-02-25T05:00:00Z Determined to keep their converts, the Franciscans cracked down on “witchcraft” by whipping and hanging the offenders. Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z In Massachusetts, 14 women and six men were executed after they were accused of witchcraft, and hundreds of people were executed in England, which passed a witchcraft law similar to Scotland’s in 1542. Scotland apologizes for history of witchcraft persecution 2022-03-09T05:00:00Z “Stop the witchcraft trials!” she said in a television interview on Thursday, in response to an outcry over her use of a term once confined to the extreme right. With French Election Looming, It Is Macron Against the Right 2022-02-18T05:00:00Z Would school libraries be sued for stocking books like "Harry Potter" or "Lord of the Rings," which Christian groups oppose on the grounds that they "promote" witchcraft? The secret plan behind Florida's "don't say gay" bill: Bankrupting public education 2022-02-15T05:00:00Z Cases of killings linked to belief in witchcraft are rare in Cambodia. Cambodian police say sorcery suspicions set off killings 2022-02-07T05:00:00Z During the same period, 14 women and 5 men were hanged for the crime of witchcraft and another man died under torture. Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z Women were especially vulnerable to accusations of witchcraft, in part because they were seen as more susceptible to Faustian bargains, Brock said. Scotland apologizes for history of witchcraft persecution 2022-03-09T05:00:00Z The Catalan regional parliament has formally pardoned hundreds of women executed for witchcraft between the 15th and 18th centuries. Catalonia pardons women executed for witchcraft 2022-01-26T05:00:00Z A public apology to those accused of witchcraft between the 16th and 18th Centuries would send a powerful symbolic signal, campaigners have said. Witch apology would 'send powerful signal' 2022-01-06T05:00:00Z She publicly hexed murderers and rapists, wrote 13 books on ritual and witchcraft and founded the long-running International Goddess Festival. Characters we can’t forget from 2021 2021-12-07T05:00:00Z The organisation provides shelter and legal advice to women accused of witchcraft and reports their cases to the UN and other international organisations. BBC 100 Women 2021: Who is on the list this year? 2021-12-06T05:00:00Z Many scholars think the mass hysteria of the Salem witch hunt was fueled by a local Protestant patriarchy, who regarded witchcraft as a supernatural affront to biblical practice. Review: Ex-President Trump claims to be a witch hunt target. These feminist artists beg to differ 2021-11-10T05:00:00Z Tens of thousands of mostly women are believed to have been condemned to death for witchcraft across Europe. Catalonia pardons women executed for witchcraft 2022-01-26T05:00:00Z |
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