Search results for "Witch" - New World Encyclopedia
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- 1950 and 1956, beginning with The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, the most ... ** The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (1950) ISBN 000711561X ...27 KB (4,330 words) - 19:28, 24 November 2023
- The case has often been compared to the witch hunts that marred Salem and medieval Europe; a comparison that provided the inspiration for Arthur ...29 KB (4,418 words) - 21:16, 4 October 2022
- West of the Moon, or practice witchcraft, as in The Witch in the Stone Boat, where a troll usurps a queen's place, or in The Twelve Wild Ducks, ...13 KB (2,076 words) - 17:46, 2 May 2023
- manner; that is, dressed in a disguise (often as a witch, ghost, monster, or another supernatural being) and offering entertainment of various sorts ...37 KB (5,487 words) - 23:07, 3 August 2023
- In 1617, Kepler's mother, Katharina, was accused of being a witch ... * Connor, James A. Kepler's Witch: An Astronomer's Discovery ...31 KB (4,812 words) - 07:18, 5 April 2024
- relief. Other important reforms included outlawing witch-burning and torture, and, for the first time in Austrian history, taking capital punishment ...16 KB (2,351 words) - 04:11, 6 November 2022
- perch), Greenland halibut (turbot), yellowtail, witch flounder, and American plaice (a flatfish). Crustaceans include crab, lobster, scallop, and shrimp. ...15 KB (2,292 words) - 18:50, 24 May 2024
- group of flagellates, and later a woman burned as a witch. In the end, Death provides no answers. The knight arrives home and greets his wife, but in ...15 KB (2,262 words) - 19:23, 5 March 2024
- songs from Thomas Middleton's play The Witch (1615); Middleton is conjectured ... *The Third Witch — 2001 novel by Rebecca Reisert, told from the ...40 KB (6,125 words) - 04:47, 5 November 2022
- * Lois the Witch (1861) * A Dark Night's Work (1863) ===Short stories (partial) === * Libbie Marsh's Three Eras (1847) * Christmas Storms ...15 KB (2,205 words) - 16:19, 13 February 2024
- * Hults, Linda C. The Witch As Muse: Art, Gender, And Power In Early Modern Europe. University of Pennsylvania Press, 2005. ISBN 978-0812238693 ...17 KB (2,585 words) - 10:58, 16 August 2023
- 19 KJV), in which a disguised King Saul has the Witch of Endor summon the spirit of Samuel. In the New Testament, Jesus has to persuade the Apostles ...17 KB (2,627 words) - 21:55, 28 October 2020
- why her clothing had grown tight, thus letting the witch deduce that she was pregnant, but in subsequent editions carelessly revealed that it was easier ...47 KB (7,154 words) - 00:31, 25 March 2024
- * During the Salem Witch Trials in Salem, Massachusetts, many accused of witchcraft were hanged. ==Alternatives to Hanging== Because of the variables ...19 KB (2,904 words) - 01:19, 28 January 2022
- spirits throughout most of history; shamans and witch doctors traditionally contacted spirits, and the oracles of ancient Greece were often consulted ...19 KB (2,785 words) - 04:07, 9 November 2022
- *Ruddigore, or, The Witch's Curse (1887) 288 performances *The Yeomen of the Guard, or, The Merryman and his Maid (1888) 423 performances ...35 KB (5,291 words) - 12:23, 22 May 2024
- goes back to early tribal societies. Shamans and witch doctors were believed to possess the ability to attune with nature to the point that they could ...17 KB (2,631 words) - 23:30, 3 May 2023
- by many different authors. Often the character of a witch is introduced who turns the Prince into the Beast because he refuses to marry her, and a good ...18 KB (2,992 words) - 10:19, 26 September 2023
- balance, such as rainmakers, mediums, medicine men, witch doctors, and tribal chiefs, who are sometimes regarded as symbols of divinity or prophets. ...20 KB (3,143 words) - 06:07, 16 June 2023
- " "The Wood Dove," "The Noonday Witch," and "The Water Goblin," are based on the epic poems of his countryman, poet ...18 KB (2,917 words) - 12:12, 30 October 2021
