Word: witchcraft
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Salem was raging. The Court of Oyer and Terminer, convened in 1692, convicted 19 people of witchcraft, and hung them. Much of the incriminating testimony came from a group of young girls who claimed to have been possessed by the devil...
...made by women against male relatives. In this, the present situation is not analogous to but opposite of that in Salem. There the accused and convicted were almost all women, many of them women with power and property--too much for their own good. The agenda behind the witchcraft trials and executions was ten times as misogynist as the current agenda--if it indeed exists--is feminist. None of today's convicted have hung...
...while it is worth while to recognize parallels with the travesty of justice that was the Salem witchcraft trials, it is also important to recognize differences. Certainly, the mind can deceive us. But evaluated correctly, its impressions can also inform...
...many critics of the recovered-memory movement, the accusations and convictions are reminiscent of the 17th century Salem witchcraft trials, in which elderly women and an occasional man were condemned to death, often on the basis of a single unsubstantiated charge that they had demonstrated witchlike behavior...
...blend of music and motion. The weirdly soothing, polylingual background score, which could be elevator music at a harmonious U.N., rolls out a verdant carpet of sound for all the pretty beasts to strut on. At every moment, in every corner of the Cirque world, stagecraft approaches genial witchcraft. It's an out-of-Broadway experience...