Word: witchcrafts
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...truly unstained wife Elizabeth that he is, in fact, a good man. As the witch trials become a raging mania in Salem, Proctor becomes inextricably involved, dragging all his past failings to light--including his liaison a year before with Abigail Williams, the girl accusing the Salem women of witchcraft--but can finally do nothing except die for his beliefs...
...church had other roles in public policy as well; it was central in a fight that eventually led to a woman's execution for witchcraft in 1650, a woman one historian called "one of the earliest victims to that dreadful popular delusion." As late as 1696, the selectmen of the city felt it necessary to appoint a committee of four to "have inspection into families that there be no bye drinking or any misdemeanor whereby sin is committed and persons from their houses unseasonably...
...from "the Purpose," which may be the devil, or simply a pantheistic deity. Alfgif gets a lot of help from a winsome polecat named Meg, a pet who rides in his coat pocket and turns out to be the kind of "familiar" (a supernatural spirit-animal form) familiar to witchcraft. He learns that he has modest occult powers himself and eventually converses with one of "the Purpose's" top executives, a gentleman, polite enough but obviously not an Englishman. When this personage inquires as to the source of Alfgif's powers, the reply comes: "No power...
...Torrances' battle against Overlook obscure Kubrick's careful hand the first time around. Only a second journey through the padded hallways and inviting doors of the mysterious Room 237 reveals the brilliance of a director whose razor-sharp art draws both from precise science and glassy-eyed witchcraft...
...Kimbangu, more closely resemble orthodox Protestantism. The movement was founded in 1921. It prospered because the colonial Belgian government considered Kimbangu a troublemaker and martyred him by throwing him into prison, where he later died. Many of the independent churches are openly syncretistic, putting the merest Christian overlay upon witchcraft, sorcery and ancestor worship...