Word: witchcraft
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...robed in scarlet, performs the duties of acolyte; the goblet of wine is placed between the breasts of the recumbent virgin and a part of the wine is spilled over her body. At the supreme moment, the sacrament, the consecrated wafer . . . is debased instead of elevated, and subsequently defiled." (Witchcraft; Harcourt Brace...
...TIME refers Reader Barrus to the witchcraft section of the Department of Agriculture...
...Pronounced heck-it; the goddess of witchcraft...
...York's Roman Catholic Bishop J. Francis A. Mclntyre, putting divine revelation in the same breath with witchcraft was "practically . . . blasphemous...
...monuments in the parks rarely commemorated historic figures. More frequently they were sacred to deified animals and trees. In the center of the city was a shrine to Inari, the god of harvests, and his servant, the fox. Inari & Fox did a mail-order business (literally) in charms against witchcraft. The cotton plant and the silkworm were annually feted because they gave their lives for humanity...