Black magic

Bless Me, Ultima is a beautifully written novel that connects the audience to the characters and paints a wonderful picture, immersing readers into the story. This story is set in the desert plains town of Las Pasturas, New Mexico during the 1940s, around World War II. The main character, Antonio, lives with his mother, father, and two sisters, Deborah and Theresa, in a house in the llano, the open plain. When Antonio is almost seven years old, his mother and father send for the curandera,…

Mass hysteria is the common term used to describe a situation in which various people all suffer from similar hysterical symptoms – either from a phantom illness or an inexplicable event. The Salem Witch Trials and The Holocaust are both similar because they both are mass hysterias that have killed many innocent people. The Salem Witch Trials occurred in the 1600’s, more than two hundred people were accused of practicing witchcraft and dealing with the devil (The Crucible). This all started…

According to Theory number 1, Ergot fungus contaminated the crops harvested by the people of Salem, Massachusetts which developed the hallucinations of the citizens and started the Salem Witch Trials. In 1692, they harvested a great deal of wheat, rye and cereal grasses. Ergot, or ergot poisoning, is a fungus that attacks the central nervous system and causes muscle contractions, confusion, impaired speech, crawling sensations on the skin and hallucinations. The girls in Salem had feelings of…

Over the years many even senteries vampires have taken all kinds of different faces . they have changed from the terrifying examples of dracula or nosferatu. The have gone from bad to good or from bad to worse . but mostly bad to good . there are many examples of vampires throughout history. And a large part of our fears come from them. I will start by describing the early vampires. Back in the day they were terrifying and they were meant to be away from normal humans. They would terrorize…

What I found to be particularly interesting in the chapter They Hang Horses, Don’t They? was that animals were persecuted in a court of law. That animals were given the same sentences for committing murder as human beings, which was death if they were found to be guilty. In addition, animals received some of the same rights as their human counterparts as they were provided with defense attorneys during their trial. One of the arguments that lawyers presented in court was Genesis 9:7 a verse…

that flowed through a person’s body. Some examples of these liquids are yellow bile, black bile, blood, and phlegm. The way in which Hippocrates considered that there was a problem in one of these mentioned fluids is like, if a person possessed too much yellow bile, then the person would have a “mania”, and if the person had too much black bile, would be suffering from melancholia. Therefore, an excess of black bile was considered to be too dark for the mood of a person; consequently, the…

Writing and reading fanfiction isn't just something you do; it's a way of thinking critically about the media you consume, of being aware of all the implicit assumptions that a canonical work carries with it, and of considering the possibility that those assumptions might not be the only way things have to be. . . . Fanfiction is about exercising this choice. In doing this, fanfiction is breaking new ground, but it's also trying to retake ground that was lost centuries ago. (Jamison and…

Wait, what happened? Why are they talking about a dog? Why are they calling me a dog? Why am I so small? Oh No! I’m a dog! Wait! How did this happen? Was it that witch I saw last night? Was it the wizard? Maybe it was the sorcerer! They don’t know it’s me. They’re taking me to the pound? All because somehow, I managed to turn into a dog. If I don’t figure a way to tell them it’s me, they’ll ship me off! I will just prove that’s it’s me inside a dog’s body! I know! I’ll get my favorite soft,…

The Salem witch trials of 1692 in Salem, Massachusetts, was a notorious episode in American history. This historical event resulted in the execution by hanging of fourteen women and five men accused of practicing witchcraft. Furthermore, one man was pressed to death by heavy weights; at least eight people died in prison; and more than one hundred individuals were jailed while awaiting trial. The political discrimination experienced in Salem was the foundation for the trials. In 1692, the…

The Salem Witch Trials were a brutal time period and should be considered a crime against humanity. In the novel “The Crucible” by Arthur Miller there is a conflict that takes place in Salem Massachusetts 1692. The puritan society was a very strict and religious society making the accusation of witchery very powerful. All of this leads to one question, who was responsible for the Salem Witch Trials? That would be the infamous John Proctor. In the novel John shows several traits the portray the…