Word: witchcrafts
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...Richelieu and from Shakespeare to Descartes. It was a time when superstition was rampant; a king's touch would cure scrofula, corpses bled in the presence of the murderer, comets signified disaster-although Galileo was calmly regarding the heavens through a telescope that magnified 1,000 times. Witchcraft (in which Kepler believed) was widespread: the Archbishop of Trier found it necessary to burn 120 of his fellow Germans on the ground that they had prolonged the cold weather long past the change of seasons. And yet the voice that defined the age and spoke one of its most famous...
...were not so flatly incredible. The novel is not helped by an overworked style that always seems to be asking the reader to finger the rich material of the prose. In Steinbeck's naively symbolic handling, the world of money and business is reduced to a branch of witchcraft, thus vitiating any valid point that Steinbeck might have hoped to make about the state of U.S. ethics. Asked to define business at one point, Ethan calls it "everybody's crime." The guilt for this novel is somewhat easier to localize...
...believes the rites are necessary. "Exorcism," he declared, "is part of our Lord's commission to his church.'' Not all of Arthur Macmillan's fellow laymen agreed. "The whole subject of evil spirits wandering about this world is un-Christian and almost getting near to witchcraft," said a retired physician named Dr. Edward Cordeaux. Others felt that "possession" was a matter for psychiatrists. The Rev. Henry Cooper, chaplain to the Guild of St. Raphael, argued that the more successful exorcists are men who know something about psychiatry and work well with doctors. They resort to bell...
...widows, that impose upon, seduce and betray into matrimony any of His Majesty's subjects by scents, paints, cosmetics, washes, artificial teeth, false hair, Spanish wood (rouge), iron stays, hoops, high-heeled shoes and bolstered hips, shall incur the penalty of the law now in force against witchcraft and like misdemeanors...
...primitive anthropology and published a scholarly work on Kikuyu customs, Kenyatta diabolically parodied the traditional religion of his people in Mau Mau ritual-much as occultists did in the legendary Black Mass. In fact, reports Corfield, Kenyatta's work showed "at least a passing acquaintance" with European witchcraft...