Dissertations / Theses: 'Witches'

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Andersson, Lorraine. "Which witch is which? A feminist analysis of Terry Pratchett's Discworld witches." Thesis, Halmstad University, School of Humanities (HUM), 2006. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hh:diva-543.

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Terry Pratchett, writer of humorous, satirical fantasy, is very popular in Britain. His Discworld series, which encompasses over 30 novels, has witches as protagonists in one of the major sub-series, currently covering eight novels. His first “witch” novel, Equal Rites, in which he pits organised, misogynist wizards against disorganised witches, led him to being accused of feminist writing. This work investigates this claim by first outlining the development of the historical witch stereotype or discourse and how that relates to the modern, feminist views of witches. Then Pratchett’s treatment of his major witch characters is examined and analysed in terms of feminist and poststructuralist literary theory. It appears that, while giving the impression of supporting feminism and the feminist views of witches,

Pratchett’s witches actually reinforce the patriarchal view of women.

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Johnston, Hannah E. "New generation witches : the teenage witch as cultural icon and lived identity." Thesis, Anglia Ruskin University, 2004. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.413620.

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Ault, Amber Lynne. "Witches, Wicca, and revitalization : reconsiderations /." Connect to resource, 1989. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=osu1170264041.

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Dalldorf, Tamaryn. "Witches & villains: the nasty tales." Thesis, Rhodes University, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/63087.

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My thesis compromises a variety of short stories which are modern re-writes of dark fairy tales. Fairy Tales often explore the dark side of human nature and in these stories I focus on the voices of female villains and the strange psychology which drives them. I find Fairy Tales absorbing because they reveal the vulnerabilities, dreams and fears of the human consciousness. My stories contain some satirical expositions of human nature and society. My influences are the anthology of short stories, “My mother She Killed Me and My Father He Ate Me”, The Grimm Fairy Tales (original) and The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault as well as the writing of Horacio Moya, Angela Carter and Alissa Nutting for their dark satire and mockery of social eccentricities. Kate Bernheimer’s “Form is Fairy Tale and Fairy Tale is Form” is very influential in terms of the style it recommends in writing such as: “every day magic”, “flatness” (a form of narration), abstraction and intuitive logic.

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Gagnon, Heather Elizabeth. "Scandalous Beginnings: Witch Trials to Witch City." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 1997. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/36535.

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On June 10, 1692, Bridget Bishop was hung as a witch in the community of Salem Village of the Massachusetts colony. Bishop was the first of twenty that died, all of whom professed their innocence. By the end of the madness, more than two hundred persons stood accused of witchcraft. They attempted to prove their innocence or they falsely admitted guilt in order to save their own lives. Citizens did not discuss the episode for many years after the trials were ended. The whole episode was an embarrassing blemish on the history of the state, and there was little atonement for the unjust hangings of those who had proclaimed their innocence. Three hundred years later, Salem, Massachusetts is very different. The image of the witch on a broomstick has been commercialized, and the city has become known as the "Witch City." The city makes over $25 million a year in tourism and is one of the largest tourist attractions in all of New England. This change raises some very important questions, such as how did this change occur? Why did it occur? Is Salem unique? How did perceptions change over time, and why? This thesis attempts to answer these questions by examining a variety of sources. This thesis strives to explain how a tiny New England town that experienced the tragic phenomenon of the witch trials and hangings, evolved into the present-day Witch City.
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Dore, Kelly Lyn. "Representations of witches in nineteenth century music." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/3423.

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Portrayals of witches appear frequently in nineteenth-century music, either as supernatural characters as in folk tales, or as real persons (especially women) who are viewed by society as possessing the stereotype features of the witch. This thesis examines the musical characterizations of these witches, suggesting that their portrayals share a common vocabulary of musical features, and thus constitute what scholars such as Leonard Ratner, Kofi Agawu, or Robert Hatten call musical “topics.” The topics I have discerned include “noises and sounds ostensibly made by witches,” “the dance,” “sinister atmosphere” and an aesthetic of extremes which I have termed “aesthetic inversion.” Definitions and terminology related to witches in relevant European languages are reviewed in Chapter One. There follows a history of witches and witchcraft in Europe with the hope that it will provide an historical context which will enhance the reader’s understanding of the character of the witch. Chapter Two provides musical analyses of the musical “topics” which the composers drew upon to communicate to the audiences their representations of witches. In Chapter Three I examine the implications of these depictions from ideological, political and gender standpoints. The thesis concludes with a summation of the “topics” and their uses.

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Gadway, Nicole C. "The view from Rampion's Tower the story of a witch /." Diss., Online access via UMI:, 2005.

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Moretti, Debora. "The witch and the shaman : elements of paganism and regional differences in Italian witches' trials." Thesis, University of Bristol, 2017. https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.761223.

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Apps, Lara Marie. "Literally unthinkable?, male witches in early modern Europe." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2000. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp01/MQ59709.pdf.

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Bird, Sonya. "A Cross-Cultural Look at Child-Stealing Witches." University of Arizona Linguistics Circle, 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/226602.

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One of the important figures in Lummi mythology is Ch'eni, the Giant Woman (Ts'uXaelech) who comes during the night and steals children. When I first read the story of Ch'eni, I was struck by the similarity of this story to the well-known German tale by the Grimm brothers, 'Hansel and Gretel'. In fact, the story of Ch'eni is at first glance remarkably similar to several other children's tales in various cultures across the world. The goal of this paper is to explore the more subtle similarities and differences between the Lummi story and other stories in different cultures, in terms of the content of the discourse and the structure of the discourse used in the texts. We shall see that the Lummi story is in fact quite unique in its combination of elements of discourse content and structure. This makes the apparent similarity between it and other stories from around the world even more striking. Indeed, despite the numerous differences in terms of how the basic theme of the story is developed in Lummi and other cultures, the theme comes across clearly in all of the stories. This leads the reader (or listener) to mistakenly conclude that not only the main theme, but all aspects of the different stories are the same. The structure of the paper is as follows: in section 2, I outline the Lummi story of Ch'eni. In section 3, I discuss the content of this story, comparing it to that of /q'ɬəmáiəs/ in Sooke, Mosquito in Tlingit, Ho'ok in Tohono O'odham, Baba Yaga in Russian, Hansel and Gretel in German, and Yamamba in Japanese.' Finally, in section 4, I compare the discourse structure of the Lummi story to that in the other stories mentioned above.

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Vaisarova, Julie. "Witches, Warlocks, and...Fulgurites?: Learning Information from Fantasy Fiction." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2014. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/scripps_theses/470.

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Although fictional stories are not always an accurate source of information about the world, research has suggested that readers encode information from such stories in a manner that allows it to be freely retrieved and used in later situations. The present study compared readers’ use of novel information from realistic and fantasy fiction to examine whether this apparent lack of compartmentalization stems from readers’ assumption that fictional stories accurately portray reality. In an adaptation of Marsh, Meade, and Roediger’s (2003) paradigm, 259 adult United States residents read a realistic or fantasy story containing a series of obscure facts and then answered a purportedly unrelated set of questions that asked about these facts. Participants’ processing of novel story information differed by genre, such that participants who read a fantasy story were less likely to use information from the story on the subsequent test than participants who read a realistic story. Although this effect was not explained by participants’ trust in the source genre’s veracity, participants’ confidence in answers attributed solely to the experimental story suggested that there was a component of post-retrieval evaluation based on perceptions of the source genre. Together, these results suggest that readers’ processing of information from realistic and fantasy fiction differs, such that readers may be partly protected from using potentially inaccurate information from fantasy stories in later situations. However, the precise point in the process of encoding, retrieval, and application where these differences arise, and their implications for readers’ acquisition of misinformation, remains to be specified.

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Penman, Danny. "Fungal biomass distribution in witches' broom disease of cocoa." Thesis, University of Liverpool, 1993. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.384959.

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The basidiomycete fungus Crinipellis perniciosa (Stahel) Singer is the causative agent of witches' broom disease of cocoa (Theobroma cacao). Witches' broom disease is endemic to large areas of the Americas and is a major constraining factor on cocoa production in such areas. The disease cycle includes a primary monokaryotic biotrophic phase and a secondary dikaryotic saprotrophic phase. In order to study the early stages of infection the possibility of quantifying the relative concentrations of the primary and secondary phases using changes in the ratio of mannan to chitin was investigated. Both chitin and mannan are fungal cell wall polymers. Separate gas chromatographic based mannan and chitin assays were developed. The new chitin estimation procedure was significantly more sensitive than the commonly used colorimetric based methods and was also selective for chitin rather than a range of similar components. The new method required only about 2oo ug of material whilst the previous and colorimetric based procedures required approximately 25 mg. Thus, the new procedure was sufficiently sensitive to detect extremely low levels of infection in clearly defined plant regions, such as meristems. The mannan assay was not significantly more sensitive than the previous assays, but produced cleaner samples, and thus interpretation of results was simplified and mass spectrometer maintenance reduced. To capitalise on the new chitin and mannan assays, the work was extended to encompass neutral and amino sugars. No useful biomarkers or ratios between components were discovered. Ratios between sugars may have been capable of apportioning the relative concentration of primary and secondary phase C. perniciosa in infected cocoa. All extractable lipids were also evaluated as potential biomarkers, and the lipid profiles assessed for potentially useful ratios. No useful lipid ratios were discovered, but ergosterol was found to be a useful biomarker. The newly developed chitin assay was used to study C. perniciosa infection in green and brown brooms. The assay was also used to investigate the distribution of C. perniciosa in sections taken throughout the length of an entire broom. The results indicated C. perniciosa was highly localised at the broom base and at the growing points. The use of random amplified polymorphic DNA polymerase chain reaction as a guide to pathogenicity was also evaluated. The method was adapted for use with C. perniciosa at the Institut Fur Genbiologische Forschung, Berlin. The method indicated the presence of fungal plasmids in the primary phase of C. perniciosa but not in the secondary.

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McGuire, L. H. "Witches in the Roman world : a literary and sociological study." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 1994. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.666241.

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The subject of this study is a number of women in the Latin Literature of the Augustan Age and Early Empire who used magic. Such figures occur in the following works: Virgil Eclogue 8 (character not named), Aeneid 4 (Dido and the priestess), Horace Satire 1.8 and Epodes 5 and 17 (Canidia, Sagana, Veia and Folia), Ovid Amores 1.8 (Dipsas) and Fasti 2.571 (an old woman performing rites to Tacita), Lucan Pharsalia 6 (Erichtho), Petronius Satyricon (Proselenus and Oenothea) and Apuleius Metamorphoses (Meroe and Pamphile). The aim of the thesis is to understand first who these figures were and second why they existed in Latin literature. This requires first a study of the figures themselves within Latin literary tradition: there are nine main texts and they will be studied in order to see who the women were (age, social status), physical appearance, the activities they perform and the powers they attain through such activities. Secondly, it is necessary to see the debt of these aspects to both Greek literary tradition and to Roman social evidence. Previously most of the work on this topic has been in commentaries on these figures within literature, and some theorising on their reality as witches. Terminology is also important. The way in which the ancients understood these figures can be discovered not only in their physical portrayal, but in the Latin terms used to refer to them and what these terms meant. Equally care must be taken in translating such terms into English. On the whole scholars seem to use a variety of English words when referring to these figures, such as "witch", "sorceress", "magician" and "enchantress"; usually without precise definition. Of this group, "witch" is the most problematic as the term has several meanings, one of which implies complex social phenomena.

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Newton, Rosemary. "Spatial and temporal patterns of witches' broom disease on proteas." Thesis, University of Cape Town, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/26008.

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Grafton, Daniel. "New American witches a transitioning figure in the twentieth century /." Connect to this title online, 2008. http://etd.lib.clemson.edu/documents/1239896155/.

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McGowan, Jennifer A. "Reading witches, reading women : late Tudor and early Stuart texts." Thesis, Bangor University, 2001. https://research.bangor.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/reading-witches-reading-women--late-tudor-and-early-stuart-texts(95b04f7a-96ca-48a2-a038-fb2671ab2476).html.

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The introduction discusses the problematics involved in developing a feminist theory of late Renaissance and early modem witchcraft. It includes an overview of both Renaissance feminist theory and witchcraft studies, and posits that the witch is a hybrid, multivalent figure. Chapter one examines contemporary sources for portrayals of witches. The second chapter analyses the roles of witches, hags, and viragos in The Facrie Queene. Throughout the work their femininity is problematised, its meaning displaced onto horrific figures or fragmented into "good" and "bad" women. Both inspire dis-ease. Lyly's Endimion introduces a witch in the Thessalian tradition and women whose transgressions lie in daring to act and speak. Chapter three expands the definition of witch to other unruly women, including the shrew and the power-wielding woman; it also proves that Dipsas' power is the strongest in the play. Chapter four analyses the way in which the definition of witcheraft can be imposed on a woman by exterior societal forces, with reference to The Witch of Edmonton. Also discussed are the role of cursing and the problematics of female sexuality. Chapters five through eight discuss Shakespeare. Shakespeare's Joan of Arc is fragmented and reflects the varying views about her, and again shows how one woman may be variously defined. With Joan's death, Margaret of Anjou becomes the virile woman in the tetralogy. She and other women who share her verbal potency are condemned not only by the men in the plays but also by critics who erroneously take the negative view as definitive. Macbeth concerns itself with exploration of gender, androgyny, power (occult and otherwise) and its betrayal. Chapter eight outlines how the women in other Shakespearean plays do not achieve dramatic impact as witches because they are robbed of primary agency in the plays. Chapter nine demonstrates how Middleton distances his Heccat and proves that the real witches and villains lie in the structure of the patriarchy of The Witch. Lyly combines cunning woman with Sibyl in Mother Bombie; wit defines wisdom. Chapter eleven presents The Wise-Woman of Hogsdon, an anomaly in that the witchfigure and unruly characters of both sexes are not condemned and have happy resolutions. The conclusion summarises briefly and outlines areas of further study. Appendix A is a table; Appendix B outlines the role of cursing as gendered speech in Shakespeare's first tetralogy.

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Smith, Zena Diane. "Modern witchcraft in suburban Australia: how and what witches learn." Thesis, Curtin University, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/383.

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Existing anthropological research and discussion related to contemporary Wiccan and Witchcraft practice is growing and indeed has been explored by anthropologists and other writers from the northern and southern hemispheres. However, there has been limited discourse on how and what Western Australian Wiccans and Witches learn. This ethnographic research fills that gap by exploring, in two separate sections, how Wiccans and Witches have developed relevant skills in a social learning structure and what ritual practice they have learnt as a result. The thesis proposes that the current theories of learning and ritual fail to adequately describe the social processes and outcomes observed.In the first section, focusing on how the participants learn, I argue that cognitive, behavioural and humanist learning theories as well as the most relevant social learning theory, Communities of Practice, fail to explain adequately the holistic learning processes with which the Wiccans and Witches are engaged. Instead I propose a new and complementary theory of learning that I identify as 'Whole Person’ theory that more effectively describes the holistic and intuitive nature of learning the research participants undertook.In the second section I go further to show that the existing theories of ritual fail to explore and consider ritual as a product or outcome of learning and instead focus heavily on ritual either as a process contributing to and reflecting the social order in which it takes place or they describe the structure of ritual. This research shows that ritual can be both a process of a social group as well as a product and an end result of learning and social interaction. The ethnographic materials presented extend our understanding of both learning and ritual.

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Anderson, Maureen Clare Shields John C. ""Witch" as metaphor in America an interdisciplinary analysis of the linguistic shaping of women in literature /." Normal, Ill. : Illinois State University, 2007. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?index=0&did=1390282941&SrchMode=1&sid=1&Fmt=2&VInst=PROD&VType=PQD&RQT=309&VName=PQD&TS=1202750211&clientId=43838.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Illinois State University, 2007.
Title from title page screen, viewed on February 11, 2008. Dissertation Committee: John Shields (chair), Bruce Hawkins, Ronald Fortune. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 255-281) and abstract. Also available in print.

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strauss, Anke. "Researchers, models and dancing witches : tracing dialogue between art and business." Thesis, University of Essex, 2012. https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.613630.

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Griffith, Gareth. "Population structure of the cocoa pathogen Crinipellis perniciosa (Stahel) Sing." Thesis, Aberystwyth University, 1989. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.268676.

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Porterfield, Melissa Rynn. "Warning, Familiarity and Ridicule: Tracing the Theatrical Representation of the Witch in Early Modern England." Connect to this document online, 2005. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=miami1114108678.

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Thesis (M.A.)--Miami University, Dept. of Theatre, 2005.
Title from first page of PDF document. Document formatted into pages; contains [1], ii, 104 p. Includes bibliographical references (p. 101-104).

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McLaine, Rachel. "An estimate of the number of witches executed in early modern Europe /." Title page, contents and introduction only, 1997. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09AR/09arm161.pdf.

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Muse, Radzali Bin. "Physiology and biochemistry of witches' broom disease in cocoa (Theobroma cacao, L.)." Thesis, University of Liverpool, 1989. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.253297.

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Danquah, Opoku-Ahweneeh. "Growth of Crinipellis perniciosa in cocoa resistant and susceptible to witches' broom." Thesis, Imperial College London, 1986. http://hdl.handle.net/10044/1/37988.

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Tanaka, Eiji. "Studies on Aciculosporium take, the causal agent of witches' broom of bamboo." Kyoto University, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/2433/147727.

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(主査)教授二井一禎, 教授高藤晃雄, 教授東順一
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Vogele, Yvonne Alice. "The reluctant witches in Benedikte Naubert's Neue Volksmährchen der Deutschen, 1789-1792 /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 1998. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/9941.

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Shufelt, Catherine Armetta. ""Something wicked this way comes" constructing the witch in contemporary American popular culture /." Bowling Green, Ohio : Bowling Green State University, 2007. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=bgsu1194289705.

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Gibson, Marion Heather. "Taken as read? : A study of the literary, historical and legal aspects of English witchcraft pamphlets 1566-1621." Thesis, University of Exeter, 1997. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.361338.

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Wells, Kimberly Ann. "Screaming, flying, and laughing: magical feminism's witches in contemporary film, television, and novels." Texas A&M University, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/6007.

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This project argues that there is a previously unnamed canon of literature called Magical Feminism which exists across many current popular (even lowbrow) genres such as science-fiction, fantasy, so-called realistic literature, and contemporary television and film. I define Magical Feminism as a genre quite similar to Magical Realism, but assert that its main political thrust is to model a feminist agency for its readers. To define this genre, I closely-read the image of the female magic user as one of the most important Magical Feminist metaphors. I argue that the female magic userÃ¢ÂÂcommonly called the witch, but also labeled priestess, mistress, shaman, mambo, healer, midwifeÃ¢ÂÂ is a metaphor for female unruliness and disruption to patriarchy and as such, is usually portrayed as evil and deserving of punishment. I assert that many (although not all) of the popular texts this genre includes are overlooked or ignored by the academy, and thus, that an important focus for contemporary feminism is missed. When the texts are noticed by parts of the academy, they are mostly considered popular culture novelty acts, not serious political genres. As part of my argument, I analyze third wave feminismÃ¢ÂÂs attempt to reconcile traits previously considered less than feminist, such as the domestic. I also deconstruct the popular mediaÃ¢ÂÂs negative portrayal of contemporary feminism and the resulting reluctance for many young women to identify themselves as feminist. I also argue that this reluctance goes hand in hand with a growing attempt to seek new models for empowering female epistemologies. My assertion is that these texts are the classrooms where many readers learn their feminism. Finally, I list a short bibliography as a way of defining canon of texts that should be considered Magical Feminist.

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Bodard, Gabriel. "Witches, cursing and necromancy : literary representations of 'magic' in archaic and classical Greece." Thesis, University of Reading, 2004. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.413504.

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Lins, A. C. R. "Witches' broom disease of cocoa : a search for new methods of chemical control." Thesis, Imperial College London, 1985. http://hdl.handle.net/10044/1/37765.

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Salomonsen, Jone. "Enchanted feminism : ritual, gender and divinity among the Reclaiming witches of San Francisco /." London ; New York : Routledge, 2002. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb390831577.

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DeLong, Anne M. "Medea and Medusa the archetype of the witch in literature /." Instructions for remote access. Click here to access this electronic resource. Access available to Kutztown University faculty, staff, and students only, 2001. http://www.kutztown.edu/library/services/remote_access.asp.

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Thesis (M.A.)--Kutztown University of Pennsylvania, 2001.
Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 45-06, page: 2822. Typescript. Abstract precedes thesis as preliminary leaf. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 121-126).

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Hulterström, Kristina. "Witches, Warlocks and Traffic Encounters : Designing the interaction for an ad hoc gaming experience." Thesis, Linköping University, Department of Science and Technology, 2003. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-2059.

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This thesis explores the problems and possibilities concerning the interaction between players physically located in different cars during temporary meetings in a gaming situation. The thesis is part of a study set out to investigate how traffic encounters can be used as a resource in a mobile, multiplayer game intended as entertainment for children travelling in the backseat of cars. The multiplayer capabilities are realised by using wireless networks in ad hoc peer- to-peer mode, GPS positioning and a digital compass.

Designing the interaction for an ad hoc, mobile multiplayer experience introduces several design challenges, such as how to adapt to the temporality of traffic encounters and how to establish a connection between the digital game and the physical context. The nature of traffic encounters inspired us to take a newapproach to the interaction. The interaction is accomplished using a device, which enables direct interaction between players physically located in different cars. A prototype game was constructed within the frames of the project, which this thesis was part of, to test the functionality of the game concept. The prototype has been tested in its real setting, i.e. inside a car. The study and the work on this thesis was initialised and supervised by Liselott Brunnberg and the work was carried out at the Mobility Studio at the Interactive Institute in Stockholm during late spring and summer 2003.

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Tal, Guy. "Witches on top : magic, power, and imagination in the art of early modern Italy /." [Bloomington, Ind.] : Indiana University, 2006. http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:3230548.

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Thesis (Ph.D.)--Indiana University, Dept. of the History of Art, 2006.
Title from PDF t.p. (viewed Dec. 4, 2008). Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 67-08, Section: A, page: 2790. Adviser: Bruce Cole.

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Nifl, Heim Nordian Verfasser], and Wolfgang [Akademischer Betreuer] [Behringer. "Flights of (in)fancy: the child-witches of Salzburg / Nordian Nifl Heim. Betreuer: Wolfgang Behringer." Saarbrücken : Saarländische Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek, 2012. http://d-nb.info/1052557872/34.

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Nifl, Heim Nordian [Verfasser], and Wolfgang [Akademischer Betreuer] Behringer. "Flights of (in)fancy: the child-witches of Salzburg / Nordian Nifl Heim. Betreuer: Wolfgang Behringer." Saarbrücken : Saarländische Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek, 2012. http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:291-scidok-48840.

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Dorrington, Rosemary Ann. "An investigation of the molecular biology and genetics of Witches' Broom disease of Protea cynaroides." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 1987. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/7597.

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Bibliography: leaves 102-117
An investigation was undertaken into the biology and genetics of Witches' Broom disease on Protea cynaroides. The investigation was approached in two ways: firstly, from a physiological and pathological angle and secondly at the genetic level. As very little is known about the causes of Witches' Broom disease on P. cynaroides, an attempt was made to identify a pathogen which could be held responsible for the disease. A number of plants were studied in the field and from these samples were taken and cultured on culture medium. Healthy P. cynaroides tissue was not established in tissue culture, while more success was obtained with teratoma tissue. Attempts were made to transmit the disease but these were unsuccessful. Four strains of Agrobacterium tumefaciens were unable to induce tumours on P. cynaroides seedlings. Sections of vascular tissue from teratoma and healthy tissue were viewed under the electron microscope but revealed no pathogen.

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Goff, Jennifer. "The Serpent in the Garden: How early-modern writers and artists depicted devils and witches." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2014. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1396523520.

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Mallett-Birkitt, Diane. "“Fetch M’Dear”: Healers, Midwives, Witches, and Conjuring Women in Select YA and Toni Morrison Novels." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2020. https://dc.etsu.edu/etd/3845.

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Accusations and persecution of witchcraft have been embedded in global culture for centuries. For as long as these persecutions have occurred, women have found themselves accused most frequently. Older women with herbal knowledge were often called on to assist with childbirth or termination of pregnancies and this “secret knowledge” often led them to be suspected of supernatural abilities, often of a satanic nature. Intrigued by these wise women who appeared to have mysterious powers and a penchant for arousing the ire of men in the legal, medical, and religious communities, I began to notice their frequent appearance in novels. Does the presence of actual or perceived magic serve to improve the women’s status in their community? I reviewed several examples of YA literature, two picture books, and four Toni Morrison novels to determine if magic, conjuring, and witchcraft were more powerful threats than sexism and racism.

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Tyrrell, Marc W. D. (Marc Wyly Douglas) Carleton University Dissertation Canadian Studies. "Strands of moonlight; an examination of the institutionalization process amongst Neo-Pagan Witches in Ottawa." Ottawa, 1992.

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Woodhouse, Jennifer May. "Operation Belladonna." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2003. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/15801/1/Jennifer_Woodhouse_Thesis.pdf.

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Woodhouse, Jennifer May. "Operation Belladonna." Queensland University of Technology, 2003. http://eprints.qut.edu.au/15801/.

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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 characteristics of witches (Ch. 3), and the activities and behaviours/actions of witches, (Ch. 4). This study concentrates on the similarities found across Europe, and, as the majority of witches persecuted were female, my thesis emphasizes women as victims of the witch hunts.

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Raabe, Holly R. "Witches, heathens and shamans religious experience and gender identity among contemporary Pagans in the United States /." [Ames, Iowa : Iowa State University], 2009.

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Wylie, Erin N. "The Cunning Folk." ScholarWorks@UNO, 2016. http://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/2203.

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Chaemsaithong, Krisda. "Linguistic and stylistic constructions of witchcraft and witches : a case of witchcraft pamphlets in Early Modern England /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/9413.

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Coleman, Alex. "Foul Witches and Feminine Power: Gendered Representations of Witchcraft in the Works of Shakespeare and His Contemporaries." Ohio Dominican University / OhioLINK, 2019. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=odu1562624942402741.

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Shadwell, Thomas Slagle Judith Bailey. "Thomas Shadwell's "The Lancashire-witches, and Tegue o Divelly the Irish-priest" : a critical old-spelling edition /." New York : Garland publ, 1991. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb36150389t.

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Lindberg, Marlene. "Patriarchal Princesses and Wicked Witches : A Feminist Reading of the Depiction of Women in Arthur Miller’s The Crucible." Thesis, Karlstads universitet, Institutionen för språk, litteratur och interkultur, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-66002.

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Based on the Salem witch trials of 1692-1693, Arthur Miller’s play The Crucible treats a historical event that could be considered overflowing with patriarchal oppression. Despite the author’s clear disapproval of the historical cruelty, the play continuously reveals patriarchal structures and shows misogynist tendencies in its depiction of women. This essay suggests that the two main female characters Abigail Williams and Elizabeth Proctor function as representations of binary oppositions based on the patriarchal assumption of two categories of women: the ‘bad girl’ and the ‘good girl,’ which both reinforce the idea of women as unnuanced objects rather than multifaceted subjects. By arguing that Abigail and Elizabeth represent the binary pairs ‘selfish/sacrificing’ and ‘promiscuous/frigid,’ the essay finds that the two women are depicted as ‘either/or’ and that the unnuanced portrayals result in an unsympathetic reading of them. Finally, the essay concludes that regardless if the woman is a ‘good girl’ or a ‘bad girl,’ she is socially punished or given unflattering characteristics in order not to compete with the male protagonist in terms of reader sympathy.
Arthur Millers pjäs The Crucible skildrar häxprocesserna i Salem 1692-1693, en historisk händelse som kan anses vara genomsyrad av patriarkalt förtryck. Trots författarens uttalade förakt gentemot häxprocessernas grymhet finns det tydliga och återkommande patriarkala strukturer i den stundom misogyna pjäsen, särskilt i dess kvinnoporträtt. Denna uppsats visar hur de två kvinnliga huvudkaraktärerena Abigail Williams och Elizabeth Proctor fungerar som representationer av binära motsatser baserade på den patriarkala idén om två kategorier av kvinnor: den ’dåliga flickan’ och den ’duktiga flickan’, vilka förstärker synen på kvinnor som onyanserade objekt snarare än mångfacetterade subjekt. Genom att argumentera för hur Abigail och Elizabeth representerar de binära paren ’självisk/självuppoffrande’ och ’promiskuös/frigid’ finner denna uppsats att Abigail och Elizabeth är porträtterade som ’antingen/eller’ och att den onyanserade karaktäriseringen resulterar i en osympatisk läsning av dem. Slutligen påvisar uppsatsen att oavsett om kvinnan är en ’duktig flicka’ eller en ’dålig flicka’ blir hon socialt bestraffad eller försedd med osmickrande karaktärsdrag i syfte att inte konkurrera med den manliga protagonisten om läsarens sympati.

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