Black magic

All crazy stories we hear about the Salem Witch Trials today all started on January 1692. This tragic and strange time, although only lasting around a year, this event was a cause of twenty known executions. This was a dark time where the accused would turn on friends and the trials would cause people to give in as declare guilty, just to stop the torturing. Of the twenty known kills from the Salem Witch Trials, almost all were women or young girls. Of the few men that were killed, most were…

The Salem Witch Trials was an excruciatingly violent and depressing time in American history, led by the reactions of a group of girls. Fourty - Fifty thousand people were killed, in all the world, over the course of 300 years because of the thought of them being a witch and worshipping the devil, many before The Salem Witch Trial began. Witchcraft was considered treason, a capital offence, and punishable by death. The Witch Trials were very misogynistic because it was believed that the common…

“What kind of animals were these familiars and what evil deeds has she used them for?” asked Judge Engle. “She has a black cat with glowing eyes that sits on her shoulder and a sinister looking dog that glares at you with its single eye. She whispers to them all the time and when people nearby catch her doing it, her animals attack them.” “That sounds like a familiar…

The earliest explanation that was offered about the causation of the Witch Trials was that there was a real presence of witchcraft at large in Salem. Many historians who were writing at this time must have had the belief in both witchcraft and the Devil, which would explain why they believed that this was a logical and acceptable explanation as to why the Witch Trials occurred. This theory is ultimately the result of the personal context of historians, which has affected how this event was…

According to the Oxford Dictionary, the term superstition can be defined as “a widely held but irrational belief in supernatural influences, leading to good or bad luck” (Oxford 2012). It is said to be a practice based on such belief resulting from fear of the unknown. The role of superstition in Lives of the Saints written by Nino Ricci controls the society of a small town called Valle del Sole, as the villager’s main beliefs revolve around the practice of superstition. Thus, Nino Ricci’s…

Wednesday, February 16, 1777, Exactly 100 years later from the hanging of the witches…. It's cold, ice covering the ground, dead grass, gray skies, dead trees, all for except the weeping willow. Yes, the weeping willow that grew right where the 4 witches had been buried, 100 years ago, the weeping willow is still alive!! They’ve invented a sport, called “football”. Really weird sport. In The Field, which is now the football field. They just recently built a school. It is said that, near by…

“women constituted about 80% of the people tried” (956 ). In fact, for a long time women were believed to be the ones capable of conducting magic rather than men ( Clive Holmes 51). Now one may wonder why this notion was accepted by the public? Its acceptance had a great deal to do with the type of magic they perceived witches to wield, which was mainly harmful magic. Brian P. Levack remarks that women were initially targeted as they engaged in activities that would be optimal to cause harm to…

Snow blue and the 7 smurfs Once upon a time in a really wealthy Family who lived far away from the city where they would go through a secret road to get to their really nice mansion in “the secret hills” where only queens and kings lived with their descendants found out that their only daughter was having a baby, which made them so worry because years before their daughter was born the mom got a spell by an evil witch, no one knows what the spell is but when the clock turns 5 in the…

universal idea of magic. Through the use of texts originating from cultures and places all around the world, the theme of magic prevails, with variations within the cultures to differ the beliefs of magic, as well as similarities and recurring concepts to connect the theme of magic. A recurring concept in the subject of magic is the evil factor. The use of sorcery and magic leads to either the removing or blocking of evil spells, or the action of enchanting people to act evilly or use of magic…

the art of magic. What was once considered as a counterculture of witches and other deviants, magic has evolved into a unique performing art that not only has the ability to give people a sense of childlike wonder, but also connect with people in a much deeper way than any other form of entertainment (Jandt, 18). It has the power to make people believe in the impossible and inspires people to follow their dreams. Recently, a new bill has been introduced to Congress to “establish magic as a rare…