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Easley, Patricia Thompson. "A Gobber Tooth, A Hairy Lip, A Squint Eye: Concepts of the Witch and the Body in Early Modern Europe." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2000. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc2646/.

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This thesis discusses early modern European perceptions of body and soul in association with the increasing stringency of civilized behaviour and state formation in an effort to provide motivation for the increased severity of the witch hunts of that time. Both secondary and primary sources have been used, in particular the contemporary demonologies by such authors as Bodin, and Kramer and Sprenger. The thesis is divided into five chapters, including an Introduction and Conclusion. The body of the thesis focuses on religious, scientific, and secular beliefs (Ch. 2), appearance and characterist

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Sabaitytė, Giedrė. "Nusikaltimas ir nepakanta XVII a. Lietuvos Didžiosios kunigaikštystės visuomenėje." Master's thesis, Lithuanian Academic Libraries Network (LABT), 2006. http://vddb.library.lt/obj/LT-eLABa-0001:E.02~2006~D_20061110_160500-41452.

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Every society consists of two main parts: ingroup (“ours”) and outgroup (“other”). The values of these groups are different and it causes the antithesis exits between these groups. It can develop into the intolerance towards the opposite group. The ingroup has a tendency to overestimate itself while the outgroup is underestimated. Such situation has a tendency to instigate the formation of the stereotypes of the outgroup. Sometimes some qualities of outgroup can be related with crimes in the eyes of ingroup members. One can distinguish two main types of the outgroups in the society of Grand Du

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El-Mouelhy, Mossino Lauretta. "Tra magia, incantesimo e immaginario : (an tra masche, mascheugn e mistà) : la figura della masca dall'antichità celtica alla letteratura piemontese odierna." Thesis, McGill University, 2004. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=85159.

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Questa dissertazione e imperniata sulla parola masca, che denota un personaggio popolare e antichissimo di genere femminile, riscontrabile esclusivamente nel folclore e nella letterature della regione italiana del Piemonte. Si attribuisce a questo personaggio la facolta rarissima di esercitare tanto il bene che il mate, a seconda de¡ casi.<br>La tesi si basa su ricerche storiche e linguistiche che traggono i loro dati dai recessi piu remoti della civilta celtica in territorio piemontese, dove essa e prosperata dall'inizio del 4° secolo a.C. fino al 1° secolo della nostra era, epoca alta

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Castell, Granados Pau. "Orígens i evolució de la cacera de bruixes a Catalunya (segles XV-XVI)." Doctoral thesis, Universitat de Barcelona, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/131462.

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La present recerca té com a objectiu l'estudi de la cacera de bruixes desenvolupada a Catalunya, des dels seus orígens a finals de l'època medieval fins a la seva articulació durant els primers temps moderns. La investigació aporta, en primer lloc, un volum considerable de documentació judicial inèdita dels segles XV i XVI, la qual constitueix la base imprescindible per a una aproximació global a aquest fenomen històric. A partir d'aquest material i de les fonts ja conegudes, l'anàlisi s'ha estructurat sobre tres eixos principals. Primerament, s'aborden els elements que donaren lloc a l'est

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Barnett, Katrina. "Nine Lives: A History of Cat Women, Subversive Femininity, and Transgressive Archetypes in Film." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2020. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1707290/.

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The intention of this thesis is to identify and analyze the cat woman archetype as a contemporary extension of the transgressive witch archetype, which rampantly appears over the course of cinema history, working as a signifier of a patriarchal society's fear of autonomous and subversive women. The character of Catwoman is the ultimate representation for this archetype on grounds of her visibility, longevity, and ability to return again and again. More importantly, Catwoman and her sisterhood of cat women work against male creators as a means of female empowerment through trickery. Within this

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Holmqvist, Kalle. "Nordingrå, maj 1675 : en ångermanländsk socken i centrum för trolldomsprocesserna." Thesis, Gotland University, Department of History, 2010. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hgo:diva-343.

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<p>In May 1675, the local court in the northern Swedish parish of <em>Nordingrå</em>, which had approximately 1,000 inhabitants, held a preliminary investigation on 113 persons accused of witch-craft and superstition. For the majority of the 113, the main accusation was to have travelled to <em>Blåkulla</em>, a place where witches according to Swedish folklore participated in satanic festivities and rites led by the Devil himself. The preliminary investigation was held at the request of The Royal Witch-craft Commission. Nordingrå belonged to the province of <em>Ångermanland</em>, one of the Sw

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Konyar, Grace Elizabeth. "Empowering Popularity: The Fuel Behind a Witch-Hunt." Ohio University Honors Tutorial College / OhioLINK, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ouhonors1490710757496863.

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Price, David Wayne. "Cotton Mather's cosmology and the 1692 Salem witch trials." Thesis, London Metropolitan University, 2001. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.369396.

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Girard, Timothy J. "Premature witch hunt? The Amerasia case in context." Thesis, University of Ottawa (Canada), 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/26912.

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The Amerasia case concerned the theft of classified U.S. federal government documents by government officials and left-wing critics of U.S. foreign policy. The case did not result in serious criminal penalties and the failure of the prosecution has never been adequately explained. There is some superficial validity to the contention that the case was legally weak to begin with, but it is important to situate the Amerasia case in the context of the debate over the direction of U.S. foreign policy in the transition from World War II to the Cold War. Although conclusions on the subject at this po

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Kramer, William. "FILID, FAIRIES AND FAITH: The Effects of Gaelic Culture, Religious Conflict and the Dynamics of Dual Confessionalisation on the Suppression of Witchcraft Accusations and Witch-Hunts in Early Modern Ireland, 1533 - 1670." DigitalCommons@CalPoly, 2010. https://digitalcommons.calpoly.edu/theses/327.

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The European Witch-Hunts reached their peak in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Betweeen 1590 and 1661, approximately 1500 women and men were accused of, and executed for, the crime of witchcraft in Scotland. England suffered the largest witch-hunt in its history during the Civil Wars of the 1640s, which produced the majority of the 500 women and men executed in England for witchcraft. Evidence indicates, however, that only three women were executed in Ireland between 1533 and 1670. Given the presence of both English and Scottish settlers in Ireland during the sixteenth and seventee

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Kneisel, Michael R. ""So Satan hath his Mysteries to bring us to Eternal Ruine:" Satan as Provocateur in Puritan Ministers' Writings, 1662-1704." Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2014. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1394727652.

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Oliver, Cheyenne. "Which witch?| Morgan le Fay as shape-shifter and English perceptions of magic reflected in Arthurian legend." Thesis, Florida Atlantic University, 2016. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10096028.

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<p> Descended from Celtic goddesses and the fairies of folklore, the literary character of Morgan le Fay has been most commonly perceived as a witch and a one-dimensional villainess who plagues King Arthur and his court, rather than recognized as the legendary King’s enchanted healer and otherworldly guardian. Too often the complexity of Morgan le Fay and her supernatural abilities are lost, her character neglected as peripheral. As a literary figure of imaginative design this thesis explores Morgan le Fay as a unique “window” into the medieval mindset, whereby one can recove

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Barholm, Niklas. "Trulldom, Swartkonst och Diefwulshandlingar : En mikrohistorisk undersökning av kyrkans agerande under de svenska häxprocessernas första rättegång år 1668." Thesis, Södertörns högskola, Historia, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-33417.

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The purpose of this essay is to explore actions of the representatives of the church during the first of the trials of what later developed to the great swedish witch-hunts between the years 1668–1676. The method of this study is microhistorical, where you look at local events that then can be applied on a bigger scale. The theoretical ideas applied are Michel Foucault theories of a society at war, and the dynamics between central power and peripheral power in that kind of situation. By applying these theories, the relations between central juridical directives and the enforcement of these in

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Björkman, Therese. "Historia och historieskildring i det svenska skolsystemet : En studie kring läroplaner, faktaskildring och historiebegrepp, mellan 1962-2012." Thesis, Karlstads universitet, Fakulteten för humaniora och samhällsvetenskap (from 2013), 2014. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-31078.

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Syftet med detta examensarbete har varit tudelat, med både kvalitativ och kvantitativ innehållsanalys. Den första har syftat till att undersöka vilken ställning historieämnet har haft i läro- och kursplaner, från år 1962 till 2012. Analys skulle också ske över vilken historia elever möter genom läromedel i historieundervisningen, vilket har skett utifrån Staffan Selanders definition av pedagogisk text-traduktion. Den kvantitativa innehållsanalysen har berört vilka och antalet begrepp eleverna möter i epokskildringen av häxprocesserna. Resultatet har visat att historieämnet som en del av styrdo

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Moser, Heather S. "Silencing the Revelry: An Examination of the Moral Panic in 186 BCE and the Political Implications Accompanying the Persecution of the Bacchic Cult in the Roman Republic." Kent State University / OhioLINK, 2014. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1398073604.

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Monbeig, Fanny. "Représentation et performance de genre et de « race » dans la littérature féminine noire (africaine-américaine, caribéenne, française)." Thesis, Bordeaux 3, 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018BOR30038.

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L'esclavage constitue le chronotope de "Tituba" de M. Condé et de "Beloved" de T. Morrison. Il est un héritage paradigmatique dans les autres œuvres de ces auteures, ainsi que chez Alice Walker et Gisèle Pineau, déterminant les rapports raciaux contemporains. La fragmentation du corps esclave convoque le motif de la couture, entre tissage conteur, re-membrement du corps social, et reconfiguration d'une tâche traditionnellement féminine. La mise en exergue du pouvoir performatif des mots des maîtres rappelle l’historicité et la dimension politique de l'invention du racisme dans le régime planto

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DeVoe, Lauren E. "Erichtho’s Mouth: Persuasive Speaking, Sexuality and Magic." ScholarWorks@UNO, 2015. http://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/2020.

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Since classical times, the witch has remained an eerie, powerful and foreboding figure in literature and drama. Often beautiful and alluring, like Circe, and just as often terrifying and aged, like Shakespeare’s Wyrd Sisters, the witch lives ever just outside the margins of polite society. In John Marston’s Sophonisba, or The Wonder of Women the witch’s ability to persuade through the use of language is Marston’s commentary on the power of poetry, theater and women’s speech in early modern Britain. Erichtho is the ultimate example of a terrifying woman who uses linguistic persuasion to change

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Jortner, Adam Joseph. "Reign of witches a political history of American miracles, 1780-1840 /." 2009. http://wwwlib.umi.com/dissertations/fullcit/3362839.

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Valencia, Castrillón Andrea. "Las Brujas. Manual para la deconstrucción de un sujeto político." Master's thesis, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/10362/50261.

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Desde um sentir própio, procurar uma melhor compreensão acerca do enraizamento profundo da ideia do medo em relação á mulher, estabelecendo o ponto de partida para iniciar o delicado trabalho de desenredar uma apertada rede simbólica, fabricada em redor do sujeito mulher e seu devir. Um denso tecido de sentidos cobriram praxis e epistemes que desde o feminino mobilizavam o mundo. Assinalando a experiência da cristiandade como o processo e mediante o qual se impôs sobre o ethos das mulheres uma manta de desprestigio social, que ao longo dos séculos se foi tornando norma. Abordarei, como a pa

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Rojas, Rochelle E. "Bad Christians and Hanging Toads: Witch Trials in Early Modern Spain, 1525-1675." Diss., 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10161/13429.

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<p>This dissertation challenges depictions of witchcraft as a sensational or disruptive phenomenon, presenting witch beliefs instead as organically woven into everyday community life, religious beliefs, and village culture. It argues that witch beliefs were adaptive, normal, and rational in regions that never suffered convulsive witch persecutions. Furthermore, this dissertation, the first to work systematically through Spanish secular court witch trials, upends scholars’ views about the dominance of the Spanish Inquisition in witchcraft prosecutions. Through a serial study of secular court re

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Nieto, Cuebas Glenda Yael. "“How can you be a witch? You are not old”: Women, society and spectacle in the Spanish Golden Age theater." 2012. https://scholarworks.umass.edu/dissertations/AAI3498363.

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The trials of the Basque witches conducted during the 16th and early 17th centuries had a significant effect on the development of Golden Age Spanish Literature. Taunts and jests alluding to the punishment and humiliation of witches abound throughout many texts, as do scenes where characters are questioned about family histories that include connections to witchcraft; all this at a time when state and church authorities took the matter very seriously. In spite of this, many characters in the Spanish literature of the period were directly associated to magic. The most famous and imitated of the

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Meaney, Carol Susan. "Return of the witch the scapegoating of the unredeemable woman in modern American cinema /." 2002. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/utexas/fullcit?p3110657.

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Baker, Melinda Marie. "Samuel Parris: minister at Salem Village." Thesis, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/1805/4601.

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Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI)<br>In mid-January of 1691/2 two young girls in the household of Samuel Parris, the minister of Salem Village, Massachusetts, began exhibiting strange behavior. "It began in obscurity, with cautious experiments in fortune telling. Books on the subject had 'stolen' into the land; and all over New England, late in 1691, young people were being 'led away with little sorceries.'" The young girls of Salem Village had devised their own creation of a crystal ball using "the white of an egg suspended in a glass" and "in the glass there floated '

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