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Folklore and Mythology chair Stephen A. Mitchell says that the courses he offers on witchcraft have strong ties to both Harvard and Cambridge...
...Knight seks answers, knowledge, assurances, but he cannot find them anywhere. He is confronted by the effects of the plague, trains of flagellants and a young girl accused of witchcraft and sentenced to be burned at the stake. The Knight and Jons meet up with Jof's family, and together they cross the forest at night. There, they witness the execution of the of the young witch, played by Mausd Hansson. This is the most powerful scene in the film, and one of the most memorable in the history of the movies. Hansson's performance leaves one awestruck. She truly...
...always been into this stuff," saidBrindisi M. Chan '97. "I used to read theEncyclopedia of Ghosts, and I have a couplevolumes of home witchcraft...
...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...