Witch-hunt

Africa the native people have what's called Witchdoctors. These doctors are the best that the natives have, the Witch Doctors use plants and herbs to create unique medicines for the illnesses that occur. Tijana Radeska from Vintage News states, “93 percent of Tanzanians said they believe in witchcraft.” This quote helps prove how essential Witch Doctors are to the native peoples of Africa. Witch Doctors use their supernatural powers to help heal patients; along with their imminent knowledge of…

of social, geographical and cultural uncertainty. Nicholas Hytner movie, The Crucible (1996), written by Arthur Miller, illustrates the fatal events occurred in the village of Salem, in Massachusetts, from June until September of 1692. The Salem witch trials were caused by a compound of irrational fear and mass hysteria which are connected to the abuse of power, Puritan lifestyle and their beliefs in the context of the 17th century. The aftermath of this hysterical haunt plays a big part in…

Mary Rogers’ death became a sensation in the mid-nineteenth century because of multiple reasons, but the sensation mainly came from the fact that her death could have happened to any other woman in any city or town. That if this act and magnitude of violence could happen to Mary Rogers, then it could happen to any other woman who left their sphere. The historical event of Rogers’ murder also sparked the belief that single women should start becoming cautious of living alone in cities (Srebnick…

children, the household and their husbands had challenged what society depicted for them by resorting to sinning and turning themselves over to Satan. Overall, Puritan stereotypes formed for the female gender had been a factor in the course of the Salem Witch Trials and the way Satan had been…

The idea of being a witch is not even possible nowadays, but that was not always the case. In the late seventeenth century, Salem, Massachusetts had to deal with the problem of witchcraft, which is exemplified in the fictional play The Crucible by Arthur Miller. Many people were accused of working with the Devil and this caused some who did not confess to witchcraft to be hanged. Arthur Miller also wrote “Why I Wrote ‘The Crucible’, ” which explains his connection of the witch trials and the…

The article “When School Was Scary” and the poem “The Ballad of Birmingham” both show very harmful events. The event that happened to the little girl in “The Ballad of Birmingham” is very different and more effective/powerful compared to what happened in “When School Was Scary”. In the article, Elizabeth got verbally and physically abused, but in the poem, the little girl walks into a church and then it gets bombed. Getting blown up is more destructive than getting bullied. In the article “When…

The word witchcraft sounds like witches casting their mysterious spells. In reality, according to a Professor of International Studies, Robert Priest and his article On the Meaning of the Words “Witch,” “Witchcraft,” and “Sorcery”, he claims, “Under...not only the traditional healer...who has used a charm or amulet...identified as practicing “witchcraft” — and may be suspected of what witches traditionally are thought to do, bringing harm and death to others.” Priest mentions the comings of the…

Also known as ‘The Malleus Maleficarum’, The Witch’s Hammer was a book, arguably one of the most infamous books ever written, by Heinrich Kramer and Jacob Sprenger. The actual translation of it is “Hammer of Witches”. It was published in the year of 1487. During the Inquisition, it served as a guidebook for Inquisitors and was designed to aid them in the identification, prosecution, and dispatching of Witches. It came to be widely regarded as irrefutable truth and are held today by a majority of…

In the annals of American religious history, spiritualism sits uncomfortably alongside fundamentalism and other conventional forms of religion that command largest portion of scholars’ attention. Ann Braude’s Radical Spirits was one of the first narratives written that documents this important but slighted movement. To the surprise of both nineteenth-century observers and contemporary scholars alike, spiritualists were consumed by the prospect of communication with the dead. Braude provides…

men were also accused of maleficium and were believed to perpetrate the black magic of harm and injury.” (Kent, 297) It can be interpreted as witches also practice black magic regardless of gender. Since both men and women practice maleficium, the witch accusation is not solely about misogynistic accusation. Furthermore, the influence of maleficium on men cannot be ignored. Such impact comprises the masculine role in witchcraft. It is said that, because of the influence of maleficium, men do not…