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...mild reaction against "demonism" and "wise women" in the early Middle Ages developed into the witch "craze" of the 16th and 17th centuries. This development will be examined in Professor Stephen A. Mitchell's Folklore and Mythology 108: "Witchcraft...
...class will explore witchcraft, primarily in Europe and America from cross-cultural, historical, and literary points of view...
...spring break segment of the course will cover the development of witchcraft in western Europe up to and including the Salem witchcraze of 1692, while the second half will concentrate on post-Enlightenment issues, notably contemporary neo-paganism and reactions against...
...Mitchell began teaching students about witchcraft a decade ago. He co-taught an Eliot House seminar on the Salem witchcraze with former Eliot House Master Alan E. Heimert...
Consider schizophrenia, which strikes 1% to 2% of the world's population, including 3 million Americans, usually in their late teens or early 20s. Over the years, its harrowing symptoms--hallucinations, persistent voices, paranoia and frozen emotions--have been blamed on everything from witchcraft to the evil eye. Now scientists realize that schizophrenia is a complex syndrome resulting from the failure of various neurotransmitters--the chemical messengers that skip from one nerve cell to the next--including dopamine, serotonin and 5-hydroxytryptamine. "Certainly it's not caused by bad parenting," says Vinogradov. Knowing which neurotransmitters are implicated in the disease...