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...Venus catches the glow of poetry, the mocking glints of parody, the flashing of rhetoric and the shimmer of wit. Amid such a tangle of traffic lights, traffic itself snarls, detours and halts. In The Lady's Not for Burning, with its medieval echoes and broomstick leaps of witchcraft and romance, Fry could be simultaneously prankster and poet, could spoof the very verse he spouted. But Venus Observed is modern, sophisticated, drawing-room bred, .and its ironies, at times, stare down its extravagancies as arrant trespassers...
...that case was exceptional; most of the magic practiced nowadays is not black (evil) but the white magic of healing. Despite laws against witchcraft, hundreds of curanderas (healers) compete with Mexico's doctors, offering cures for everything from bellyache to heartache. In treating mal de toloache (an intestinal disorder), the curandera (see cut) wraps a snakeskin around the patient's head, opens the doors and windows so that the evil spirits can escape, and then chases the spirits by making crosses with crow feathers...
William Stoughton Class of 1650, was a "prominent, wealthy and unpopular" leader in Massachusetts life during the later half of the seventeenth century. His grandiloquent sermons and the leading role he played in the witchcraft trials led a contemporary to describe him as a "pudding faced, sanctimonious, and unfeeling witch-hanger...
After eliminating everything he could think of from alcoholism to witchcraft, Dr. Majoska got one shred of evidence which supports the dream-death theory. It came from the Philippines (where Tutop left a wife and four children). There, similar cases have been reported and called bangugut, implying that the victim died in a nightmare...
...Lady's Not for Burning. Christopher Fry's exhilarating medieval verse play of a girl falsely accused of witchcraft, but pretty bewitching for all that (TIME...