Word: witchcraft
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...What is your favorite cinematic portrayal of witchcraft...
Without peer is Benjamin Christensen’s Häxan (1922). It is a brilliant portrayal of witchcraft. If you want something a bit more cult-like, a really interesting film is George Romero’s Season of the Witch (1972), which draws a straight line between the still nascent women’s movement and witch cults, as he portrays them...
...compression of Salem’s history into a dark basement full of wax figures is a slick way to market the past. “Witchcraft sells, certainly, so that’ll draw people up there, and it’s a lure to tourists,” Larkin says. Hangings and stonings are more titillating than a broader historical explanation. “Rather than saying, ‘Well, they had economic problems, and they were on the brink of a shift to a shipping economy,’ That’s probably where...
Martinez has long dark hair and a tiny, barely visible nose stud. She says that most who come to her store are just garden-variety tourists, some with an interest in paganism and witchcraft. She has had her odd run-ins though, even by Salem standards. “We did have a Holy Roller who came and tried to strangle my dog.” She thinks for a moment. “We had a woman come in and say that it was blasphemous to call a store Goddess.” She shrugs and hands...
...stunning realization when it comes, one that all the mechanical figures and out-of-work actors in the world couldn’t recreate. Bridget Bishop, Hanged. June 10, 1692. “I am innocent, I know nothing of it, I have done no witchcraft.” Elizabeth Howe, Hanged. July 16, 1692. “If it was the last moment I was to live, God knows I am innocent.” Children clamber around on the headstones that cover the area, as their parents stoop to read the inscriptions...