Word: endore
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...Fields. Though they have since moved into major concert halls, Gamson, Oxenburg and Co. still produce works that are rarely if ever done by other companies in the U.S. or abroad-Gluck's Le Cadi Dupe, Purcell's Witch of Endor, Cherubini's Medea, Handel's Julius Caesar. Despite packed houses, the company's current deficit runs to about $35,000 a season-which in the opera business really adds up to a howling financial success. Contributions ("We never know where we're going to get the money") cover the losses...
...with gusto that may well alarm the shyer shades, as well as some readers. To those who are under the impression that the church forbids traffic in ghosts, he explains that the prohibition is against calling them up by necromancy or seance (as did Saul with the Witch of Endor), not against seeing them. Author Leslie limits his Ghost Book to "instances of ghosts, apparitions and messages from the other or twilight world which have come under Catholic cognizance or suggest Catholic interpretations...
David's anointment is doubly ironic, for it serves wily Samuel's purpose as well as God's; rumors of Samuel's strategy persuade Saul that he has, in fact, been rejected by God. Too late the Witch of Endor warns the king: "Your first sin against God was doubt." Hounded by the sense that he has failed God's trust, Saul loses faith in himself and those around him. Suspicion of David (who becomes a national hero with the slaying of Goliath) gnaws at Saul's soul until he is obsessed with...
...late Father Herbert Thurston, S.J., in his essay: "That such a thing as witchcraft exists or has existed in the world no Christian can deny who believes his Bible to be the inspired Word of God. It is impossible to suppose that the story of the witch of Endor [7 Kings 28: 7-25], of Simon Magus* [Acts 8: 9-24] ... are to be understood merely as allegories...
...were in essence Christian England's last, fading traces of pagan religion, stemming from the same roots as the animal sacrifices of the Greeks and the fertility rites of the Egyptians. When King Saul found himself out of favor with his Maker, he turned to the Witch of Endor for advice and succor-and for centuries after King Saul, kings, scholars and peasants alike turned the same way for the same reason. Witches might be good or bad (i.e., they might practice white or black magic, or a mixture of both), but it never occurred even to intelligent Europeans...