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- The Salem Witch Trials were a notorious episode in New England colonial history that led to the execution of 14 women and 6 men, in 1692, for ...24 KB (3,678 words) - 01:48, 23 December 2022
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- ===A witch in disguise=== foot is actually cut from a shape-shifted witch. Indeed, some rituals require ...12 KB (1,865 words) - 00:08, 15 April 2023
- and only one room and one window. When the witch went to visit Rapunzel, she ... belly; in subsequent editions, she asks the witch (in a moment of forgetfulness ...12 KB (1,844 words) - 00:39, 8 December 2022
- The Salem Witch Trials were a notorious episode in New England colonial history that led to the execution of 14 women and 6 men, in 1692, for ...24 KB (3,678 words) - 01:48, 23 December 2022
- They were among creatures of the White Witch present at the killing of ... transformed "sons" of the White Witch as Incubi among many other names. ...10 KB (1,633 words) - 19:43, 28 February 2018
- was not always heeded: King Saul has the Witch of Endor invoke the shade ... under duress (for example, the Salem Witch Trials). Some suggest that ...13 KB (1,977 words) - 16:08, 11 November 2022
- and became a feature of the Salem witch trials. In the twentieth century ... name came up repeatedly during the Salem witch trials. Cotton Mather wrote ...11 KB (1,702 words) - 10:24, 26 September 2023
- remembered for his connection to the Salem witch trials. Belief in the malevolent ... social moments of crisis (such as the Salem witch trials which coincided with ...26 KB (3,857 words) - 08:24, 10 January 2024
- tome among both Catholic and Protestant witch-hunters, eventually selling ... handbooks for Protestant and Catholic witch-hunters in late medieval ...29 KB (4,393 words) - 10:59, 9 March 2023
- Witch-hazel (genus Hamamelis ) and winter-hazel (genus Distylium), both in the Hamamelidaceae family, are not closely related to hazel. ...10 KB (1,460 words) - 15:08, 25 January 2023
- Wicca (Old English for "male witch"; feminine wicce), also known as the "Old Religion," is a Neopagan religion characterized ...23 KB (3,499 words) - 18:43, 4 May 2023
- when used diluted 1:10 with water, rosewater, or witch hazel. It also is also used in the treatment of skin burns and inflammatory conditions. (It ...11 KB (1,715 words) - 17:55, 25 October 2022
- to herself as a “mad housewife” or a witch; an allegory often found ... :I have gone out, a possessed witch, :haunting the black air, braver ...11 KB (1,705 words) - 06:56, 28 July 2023
- Well-known instances of poltergeist activity include the Bell Witch in 1817, and activity surrounding the Fox Sisters, whose experiences started ...20 KB (2,844 words) - 00:18, 12 April 2023
- [[Image:Witchs Finger Carlsbad Caverns.jpg|thumb|right|225px|The Witch ... such as the Totem Pole," "Witch's Finger," "Giant ...19 KB (2,927 words) - 15:25, 27 November 2023
- Martha Graham led to his ballet score, The Witch of Endor in 1965. ... *The Witch of Endor (1964 for Martha Graham) ===Orchestral=== ...12 KB (1,797 words) - 10:50, 12 May 2023
- German word, Hex (German Hexe), meaning "witch." By contrast, supporters of the folk-art theory point out that the most popular hex signs ...14 KB (2,199 words) - 11:51, 22 January 2024
- In a 2005 Walt Disney movie "The Lion, Witch and Wardrobe" composer Harry Gregson-Williams chose the kantele, played by Finninsh musician ...6 KB (959 words) - 02:48, 5 October 2022
- play from this collection include Sahira (Witch), which formed a popular ... * 1973: Witch (Short film) * 1976: The Quiet Nest (film) ...19 KB (2,884 words) - 18:13, 2 December 2023
- ancestors' participation in the Salem witch trials, Hawthorne's ... Hawthorne, a presiding judge at the Salem witch trials in 1692, Hawthorne ...15 KB (2,145 words) - 20:30, 19 May 2020
- [[Image:Witchs Finger Carlsbad Caverns.jpg|left|thumb|The Witch's Finger stalagmite in Carlsbad Caverns.]] Erosion along limestone shores ...14 KB (1,944 words) - 20:16, 28 February 2023
- The Devil is the title given to the supernatural being who is believed to be a powerful, evil entity and the tempter of humankind. The name ...20 KB (3,299 words) - 10:16, 29 January 2024
- home until she has destroyed the Wicked Witch of the West. ... Oz. The falling house has killed the Wicked Witch of the East, the evil ruler ...56 KB (8,538 words) - 21:33, 6 June 2023
- Masque of Anarchy, Men of England, and The Witch of Atlas. The Witch is probably ... * (1819) "The Witch of Atlas" * (1820) "Prometheus Unbound ...20 KB (3,154 words) - 00:32, 24 November 2022
- * The Witch, a tragicomedy (1616) by Middleton in 1616, using passages from The Witch. * A Fair Quarrel ...15 KB (2,278 words) - 21:23, 30 April 2023
- Hathorne, a presiding judge at the Salem witch trials in 1692, Hawthorne ... one of the judges who oversaw the Salem Witch Trials. (The author added ...15 KB (2,272 words) - 21:23, 27 October 2023
- Op. 38 Marionettes (1888,1901) 1 Prologue 2 Soubrette 3 Lover 4 Witch ... , The Rose and the Gardener (1897), The Witch (1898), War Song (1898) ...13 KB (1,935 words) - 23:45, 12 February 2024
- *Nettastomatidae (witch eels) *Ophichthidae (snake eels) Suborder Nemichthyoidei *Nemichthyidae (snipe eels) *Serrivomeridae (sawtooth eels) ...9 KB (1,257 words) - 04:30, 21 November 2020
- The hero in The Sacrifice must sleep with a witch to avert a nuclear catastrophe. ... with the bizarre task of sleeping with a witch in order to save mankind ...16 KB (2,516 words) - 20:10, 26 July 2023
- become a new cult classic, like The Blair Witch Project which enjoyed a midnight ... Garden State, Super Troopers, The Blair Witch Project, Spanking the Monkey ...21 KB (2,999 words) - 23:30, 26 February 2023
- Stories, and, most recently, The Dreams in the Witch House and Other Weird Stories. They collect the standard texts as edited by S. T. Joshi, most of ...17 KB (2,651 words) - 18:23, 29 July 2023
- #039;s surprise independent hit The Blair Witch Project attempted straight ... techniques seen on 1999's The Blair Witch Project) and the emergence ...17 KB (2,550 words) - 14:21, 7 February 2024
- criticized McCarthy's "witch-hunting" actions. The Monitors stance is said to have stemmed from its credo to "injure no man ...9 KB (1,395 words) - 15:32, 30 April 2023
- with a death-inflicting stare; and a witch Gella (Гелла). They ... offer by Satan, and accepts it, becoming a witch with supernatural powers ...18 KB (2,746 words) - 17:51, 9 November 2022
- to modern audiences for her role as the witch Endora in the television ... particularly want to be identified as a witch. Later that year she said ...19 KB (2,782 words) - 06:45, 16 June 2023
- Narodniks was the name for Russian revolutionaries of the 1860s and 1870s. Their movement was known as Narodnichestvo or Narodism. The Russian ...11 KB (1,586 words) - 01:26, 11 November 2022
- /documentary_archive/5218248.stm A Witch's Brew] BBC News, July 27, 2006. Retrieved January 25, 2020. By the end of the twentieth century ...21 KB (3,162 words) - 21:29, 11 August 2023
- the hypocrisy of people who engaged in witch hunts. With this work, Dreyer ... old Anna Svierkjaer—she was burned as a witch in the movie—to have the ...19 KB (2,998 words) - 15:20, 27 November 2023
- Marie Taglioni (April 23, 1804 – April 24, 1884) was a famous Italian ballerina of the Romantic ballet era, a central figure in the history ...10 KB (1,510 words) - 04:14, 6 November 2022
- Lilith was viewed as a child-killing witch, who strangled helpless neonates ... as a child stealing and child killing witch. In this context, Karina ...47 KB (7,623 words) - 08:39, 8 March 2023
- demons and witches, which culminated in the witch hunts, where Christians persecuted ... A more recent example of this witch hunt mentality was the so-called ...27 KB (4,237 words) - 16:57, 23 December 2022
- Apuleius, in The Golden Ass, describes the witch Meroe and her sister as Lamiae: The Elizabethan translator William Adlington rendered lamiae ...10 KB (1,536 words) - 20:54, 22 October 2022
- *Hamamelis (Witch-hazel) * *Hebe (Hebe)*Hedera (Ivy) *Helianthemum (Rockrose) *Hibiscus (Hibiscus) * *Hippophae (Sea-buckthorn) * *Hoheria (Lacebark) * ...10 KB (1,205 words) - 14:30, 27 January 2023
- of being a persecutor of witches during the Salem Witch Trials. Bradstreet was highly educated for the time, and her early poetry, although considered ...10 KB (1,589 words) - 01:58, 26 June 2021
- and chai hu (Bupleurum chinense) (Longe 2005). Witch hazel (Hamamelis virginiana) is used in the West to alleviate rubella symptoms and an eyewash ...11 KB (1,629 words) - 19:46, 20 August 2022
- Although Agnes remained a virgin, she was now condemned as a witch and led out tied to a stake to be burned. However, the bundle of wood would ...11 KB (1,796 words) - 06:46, 16 June 2023
- co.uk/1/hi/programmes/newsnight/8441813.stm Witch-doctors reveal extent of ... of the client and greed on the part of the witch doctor has created a ready ...43 KB (6,539 words) - 15:29, 10 December 2023
- Dorothy awakens and is greeted by a good witch named Glinda, who explains ... despite the best efforts of the Wicked Witch. Dorothy is initially denied ...117 KB (17,054 words) - 12:48, 4 June 2023
- that all statements about witches, such as “every witch owns a broomstick,” are descriptive—purport to state facts. Moreover, accounting for the ...14 KB (2,156 words) - 12:33, 21 January 2023
- There is also an entry in the Malleus Maleficarum regarding witch-archers that bears a surprising resemblance to the story of William Tell, telling ...12 KB (1,851 words) - 20:35, 13 May 2023
- spread stories among the natives that she was a witch woman who would curse them and rumors began that she tortured them. She had declared a war. ...13 KB (1,888 words) - 11:53, 29 January 2024
- #039;s Manhattan office, warning of a new wave of witch hunts and McCarthyism, but this time in the Soviet Union, which he had visited only a few months ...12 KB (1,836 words) - 08:26, 7 December 2021
- [[Image:Saul-Witch.jpg|thumb|250px|The medium of Endor contacts the ... Saul's decision to consult the "witch" of Endor. ...26 KB (4,275 words) - 17:04, 23 December 2022
- *"The Witch" *"What A Thought" ==Awards== *1960 National Book Award nomination: The Haunting of Hill House *1962 One of Times ...12 KB (1,830 words) - 14:20, 27 January 2023
- Miller traveled to Salem, Massachusetts to research the witch trials of 1692. The Crucible, a parable play in which Miller likened the situation ...28 KB (4,477 words) - 11:12, 16 August 2023
- by the Protestant Reformation led to an upswing in witch-hunting, especially in Germany, England, and Scotland. ===Magic in the twentieth century=== ...35 KB (5,255 words) - 10:49, 9 March 2023
- The Epistle to the Galatians is a book of the New Testament. It is a letter from Paul of Tarsus to a number of early Christian communities in ...16 KB (2,432 words) - 19:12, 13 February 2024
- briefly appeared to Saul when summoned by the witch of Endor. Parts of the New Testament can be read as drawing a distinction between Sheol, the common ...14 KB (2,171 words) - 13:30, 24 January 2023
- screech owl, which also came to mean demon or witch. There are different ... who was looked upon by a vampire or a witch. Moreover, being bitten by ...26 KB (4,074 words) - 01:36, 18 April 2023
- concepts of the formation of the earth in a witch's cauldron, a large model of Paleozoic insects the size of chickens in their environment ...29 KB (4,459 words) - 16:38, 10 December 2023
- a young girl, very spontaneous and intuitive, as a witch, or as the earth mother. It is likely to be associated with deep emotionality and the force ...15 KB (2,390 words) - 22:33, 7 January 2024
- 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 (2,318 words) - 20:24, 13 September 2021
- 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 (5,340 words) - 10:04, 14 December 2022
- 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
- The poems tell a story of an ugly witch who magically transforms at midnight into an alluring young woman. Albertus, the hero, falls deeply ...18 KB (2,759 words) - 18:21, 30 April 2023
- A fable is a succinct story, in prose or verse, that employs the literary device, anthropomorphism - that is giving animals, plants, inanimate ...17 KB (2,635 words) - 00:26, 25 March 2024
- Gage as the inspiration for the Wicked Witch of the West. Annette O'Toole played Maud, and Nancy Morgan and Pat Skipper played Helen and ...19 KB (2,944 words) - 16:51, 7 November 2022
- pivotal attribute of the women accused in the Salem witch trials of 1692, forty years after her death. Another suggestion is that Hutchinson doomed ...18 KB (2,765 words) - 06:54, 28 July 2023
- action of the epic turns on Armida, the beautiful witch, sent forth by the infernal senate to sow discord in the Christian camp. She is converted to ...18 KB (2,976 words) - 04:39, 1 May 2023
- *1927 Witch Wood *1928 The Runagates Club (stories 1913-28) *1929 The Courts of the Morning *1930 Castle Gay *1931 The Blanket of the Dark ...18 KB (2,741 words) - 04:22, 3 August 2022
- cannabis. The persecution of heretics in the form of witch-hunts also gathered momentum around this time, and frequently targeted users of medicinal and ...41 KB (6,357 words) - 21:12, 30 January 2024
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropology Category:Mythical creatures [[Image:Tomtebobarnen.jpg|thumb|250px|right|Little älvor ...21 KB (3,288 words) - 10:19, 21 January 2023
- * The Pope and the Witch (1989) * A Woman Alone (1991) * Johan Padan and the Discovery of the Americas (1992) * The Devil with Boobs (1997) ...18 KB (2,675 words) - 21:43, 25 June 2022
- Paramahansa Yogananda (Pôromôhongsho Joganondo, Hindi: परमहंस योगानन्द; (January 5, 1893–March 7, 1952), was ...22 KB (3,146 words) - 07:48, 18 November 2022
- In Africa, shamans (called witch doctors because of the supposed ability to combat witchcraft), often perform exorcisms to cure people of various ...20 KB (3,223 words) - 23:55, 24 March 2024
- The Illuminati, Witchcraft, The Sword, Witch, and Irish band The Answer. These bands gained recognition in popular music media recently such ...41 KB (6,469 words) - 21:31, 26 December 2020
- Saint Benedict of Nursia (c. 480 – c. 547) was a major Christian saint from Italy, whose famous monastic Rule was adopted throughout the Western ...20 KB (3,232 words) - 09:12, 27 September 2023
- of most cultures throughout history; shamans and witch doctors have practiced mediumship, and many religious groups have believed their leaders to be ...22 KB (3,512 words) - 00:58, 21 April 2023
- by secular courts. Also, most of the witch trials were held by secular courts. The Inquisition could only operate because of the consent of the ...22 KB (3,262 words) - 22:52, 5 February 2023
- |[http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/12445 The Water-Witch: or the Skimmer of the Seas] |novel |New York, smugglers, 1713 |- |1830 |Letter to General ...22 KB (3,344 words) - 01:33, 8 February 2023
- Hamilton dressing up as The Wizard of Ozs Wicked Witch of the West, and Jeff Erlanger in his wheelchair singing It's You I Like with Rogers. ...50 KB (7,123 words) - 10:23, 11 April 2024
- Subclass Labyrinthodontia - extinct Subclass Lepospondyli - extinct Subclass Lissamphibia Order Anura (or (Salientia) Order Caudata (or ...22 KB (3,306 words) - 12:33, 9 January 2023
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Psychology Category:Paranormal Paranormal, meaning "outside the norm," is an umbrella ...25 KB (3,499 words) - 11:26, 11 March 2023
- quot; includes trials related to witchcraft. The witch-hunt in Spain had much less intensity than in other European countries (particularly France ...61 KB (9,267 words) - 12:36, 18 September 2023
