Word: witchcraft
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...widows, that impose upon, seduce and betray into matrimony any of His Majesty's subjects by scents, paints, cosmetics, washes, artificial teeth, false hair, Spanish wood (rouge), iron stays, hoops, high-heeled shoes and bolstered hips, shall incur the penalty of the law now in force against witchcraft and like misdemeanors...
...primitive anthropology and published a scholarly work on Kikuyu customs, Kenyatta diabolically parodied the traditional religion of his people in Mau Mau ritual-much as occultists did in the legendary Black Mass. In fact, reports Corfield, Kenyatta's work showed "at least a passing acquaintance" with European witchcraft...
President Henry has based his stand on commonly accepted standards of morality"; yet these standards are fuzzy, transient, often sick, and by no means commonly accepted. (Burning was, for centuries, a commonly accepted countermeasure for witchcraft.) The conflict of currently accepted standards with reality has led to a pandemic of neurosis and hypocrisy that is destroying our integrity as human beings...
...Hour of Great Mysteries (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). Barbara Bel Geddes threads her way among assorted corpses in a story that mixes 20th century suburbia with 17th century witchcraft...