Bell Witch

The role of women as healers during the middle ages has received some attention from medical historians but remains little known or appreciated. In the 3 centuries preceding the Renaissance this role was heightened by 2 roughly related developments. The first was the evolution of European universities and their professional schools that for the most part systematically excluded women as students thereby creating a legal male monopoly of the practice of medicine. Ineligible as healers women waged…

An infamous episode in American history, the Salem witch trials of 1692 resulted in the execution, by hanging, of nineteen villagers, fourteen women and five men, accused of witch craft. Additionally, one man, Giles Corey, was punished by peine et fort, death by pressing (Linder, paragraph 22). These antics could have been the cause of teenage boredom, congregational strife, personal jealousies, and fears of the citizens. The main question is why did this travesty happen in Salem? In 1689,…

From this, the gender marginality then lies in the system of power in communities and courts and how they percept the characteristics of a witch. This argument refers to the second point that Alison Rowlands mentioned in her statement. Firstly, I will introduce the upbringing of belief in witchcraft by assessing the primary sources: Malleus Maleficarum, the judicial book of trial, and the…

Everyone has heard the commonly used phrase “trick or treat?” especially around Halloween. It is usually followed by candy or a riddle where a little kid threatens to pull down their underwear. Does anyone truly know where it came from though? Maybe witches in the past used it to torture people or a young child asked the question to their mother one day. Today I Found Out discovered that the practice began with the Celtic tradition of celebrating the end of the year by dressing up as evil…

I did some reading on Voodoo as I didn’t know much about it. Benin is a country in West Africa known as "the cradle of Voodoo". This is the birthplace of the ancient practice of Voodoo, which is also known as Vodun, the country’s national religion. Its beliefs were exported along with the slaves to Haiti, the Caribbean and Brazil and the religion was distorted by Hollywood. Sticking pins in dolls were once used as a method of cursing an individual by some followers of Vodun in New Orleans; this…

In the book a break with charity by ann rinaldi the main character, Susana english looks back on 1691 and all the choices she made that had to do with the Salam witch trials. Susana was standing in the town talking to the town gossip, Sarah bibber. When Susana was standing there she saw Ann Putnam and a group of girs she despreilty wanted to be friends with go into the reverends parris passage. Susana asked sarah and found out the only go in when the reverend is gone because they were strict…

Are witches really real? Did they even exist? Well in the February of 1692 a group of young girls had a sleepover decided to play a fortune telling game and fell very ill afterwards. They started acting strangely with violet outburst of tantrums. The doctor found nothing wrong with them. The doctor later diagnosed them with bewitchment. This Started the hysteria in New Salem, Massachusetts. Once the hysteria spread through the towns people thought the devil was trying to destroy Christians…

The Truth: In January 1962, Reverend Samuel Parris daughter Elizabeth Parris and niece Abigail Williams started to throw horrible fits, and other girls in the town also began to do the same. Soon after the girls began their fits the local doctor, William griggs, was called and diagnosed all the girls with bewitchment. The Girls on February, 29th claimed that three women in the town had afflicted them one of the women was Parris slave Tituba. All three women were interrogated but Tituba…

The story of haunted houses goes back to the 1800´s, now people are highly familiar with haunted houses. After reading the three articles The History of Haunted Houses , ¨ Itś just not Halloween without a haunted house¨ , and ¨One-Third of Americans Believe Dearly May Not Have Departed ¨ it has showed why haunted houses are popular. Haunted houses are popular in society today because people like being scared and making money. For example, in the essay The History of Haunted Houses it explains…

1. DSM is for billing and accurate diagnosis in mental health. 2. Thomas Sydnum came up with the ideas of syndromes to be used for many years. 3. DSM started in the 1950’s and had has many editions, working groups sit down and have input on the classifications. 4. Psychology started in Germany and grew up in the Unites States and other European countries. 5. Demon model, people behave because they are possessed which can be from demons or spirits or witches, etc., exorcism was used to cure the…