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Constructing the Witch in Contemporary American Popular Culture
"SOMETHING WICKED THIS WAY COMES": CONSTRUCTING THE WITCH IN CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN POPULAR CULTURE Catherine Armetta Shufelt A Dissertation Submitted to the Graduate College of Bowling Green State University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY December 2007 Committee: Dr. Angela Nelson, Advisor Dr. Andrew M. Schocket Graduate Faculty Representative Dr. Donald McQuarie Dr. Esther Clinton © 2007 Catherine A. Shufelt All Rights Reserved iii ABSTRACT Dr. Angela Nelson, Advisor What is a Witch? Traditional mainstream media images of Witches tell us they are evil “devil worshipping baby killers,” green-skinned hags who fly on brooms, or flaky tree huggers who dance naked in the woods. A variety of mainstream media has worked to support these notions as well as develop new ones. Contemporary American popular culture shows us images of Witches on television shows and in films vanquishing demons, traveling back and forth in time and from one reality to another, speaking with dead relatives, and attending private schools, among other things. None of these mainstream images acknowledge the very real beliefs and traditions of modern Witches and Pagans, or speak to the depth and variety of social, cultural, political, and environmental work being undertaken by Pagan and Wiccan groups and individuals around the world. Utilizing social construction theory, this study examines the “historical process” of the construction of stereotypes surrounding Witches in mainstream American society as well as how groups and individuals who call themselves Pagan and/or Wiccan have utilized the only media technology available to them, the internet, to resist and re- construct these images in order to present more positive images of themselves as well as build community between and among Pagans and nonPagans. -
OCCULT BOOKS Catalogue No
THOMPSON RARE BOOKS CATALOGUE 45 OCCULT BOOKS Catalogue No. 45. OCCULT BOOKS Folklore, Mythology, Magic, Witchcraft Issued September, 2016, on the occasion of the 30th Anniversary of the Opening of our first Bookshop in Vancouver, BC, September, 1986. Every Item in this catalogue has a direct link to the book on our website, which has secure online ordering for payment using credit cards, PayPal, cheques or Money orders. All Prices are in US Dollars. Postage is extra, at cost. If you wish to view this catalogue directly on our website, go to http://www.thompsonrarebooks.com/shop/thompson/category/Catalogue45.html Thompson Rare Books 5275 Jerow Road Hornby Island, British Columbia Canada V0R 1Z0 Ph: 250-335-1182 Fax: 250-335-2241 Email: [email protected] http://www.ThompsonRareBooks.com Front Cover: Item # 73 Catalogue No. 45 1. ANONYMOUS. COMPENDIUM RARISSIMUM TOTIUS ARTIS MAGICAE SISTEMATISATAE PER CELEBERRIMOS ARTIS HUJUS MAGISTROS. Netherlands: Aeon Sophia Press. 2016. First Aeon Sophia Press Edition. Quarto, publisher's original quarter black leather over grey cloth titled in gilt on front cover, black endpapers. 112 pp, illustrated throughout in full colour. Although unstated, only 20 copies were printed and bound (from correspondence with the publisher). Slight binding flaw (centre pages of the last gathering of pages slightly miss- sewn, a flaw which could be fixed with a spot of glue). A fine copy. ¶ A facsimile of Wellcome MS 1766. In German and Latin. On white, brown and grey-green paper. The title within an ornamental border in wash, with skulls, skeletons and cross-bones. Illustrated with 31 extraordinary water-colour drawings of demons, and three pages of magical and cabbalistic signs and sigils, etc. -
Against the Reproduction of Continental Philosophy of Religion
ARTICLE https://doi.org/10.1057/s41599-018-0207-4 OPEN Hexing the discipline: against the reproduction of continental philosophy of religion Marika Rose1 & Anthony Paul Smith2 ABSTRACT There has been a generalised anxiety concerning the future of continental philosophy of religion as a discipline, with a number of books, articles, conferences, and presentations taking up this theme. This anxiety exists because as a discipline continental 1234567890():,; philosophy of religion lacks a clear claim to an identity. This article analyses the anxiety concerning the future of continental philosophy of religion as an anxiety of reproduction. By locating the philosopher’s anxiety within a wider anxiety of reproduction we begin to understand this anxiety through the queer anti-social critique of Lee Edelman. This anxiety is traced through three processes of reproduction: intellectual reproduction, disciplinary reproduction, and institutional reproduction. The article goes on to sketch out a position against the reproduction of continental philosophy of religion by taking on and celebrating the discipline’s improper nature. Appealing neither to secular reason nor to established traditions, we draw on the Malleus Maleficarum (as read through queer theory and non-philosophy) to craft various models for thought. Here we find abortion prized over the future of the race, miscegenation over blood purity, and impotence and infertility over the sovereign power of the father. These models are explored both in terms of their historical context and as pro- viding a different image of the work that can be carried out in the discipline of continental philosophy of religion. The article concludes by suggesting other perverse lines of relation that may be opened up when one gives up on the reproduction of the discipline. -
Introduction 1 a New Order
Notes Introduction 1. Alex Owen, The Place of Enchantment: British Occultism and the Culture of the Modern (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2004), 120. 2. Corinna Treitel, A Science for the Soul: Occultism and the Genesis of the German Modern (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004), 3–4. Such scientists included Karl Friedrich Zöller, a well-respected professor of astrophysics at the University of Leipzig, physicists William Edward Weber and Gustav Theodor Fechner, mathematician Wilhelm Scheibner and the psychologist Wilhelm Wundt. 3. Owen, The Place of Enchantment. 4. Treitel, A Science for the Soul. 5. David Allen Harvey, Beyond Enlightenment: Occultism and Politics in Modern France (Dekalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 2005). 6. For a thorough discussion of the struggle by historians to establish the enchanted nature of the modern see Michael Saler ‘Modernity and Enchantment: A Historiographic Review,’ American Historical Review, 2006 111 (3): 629–716. 7. Nicola Bown, ‘Esoteric Selves and Magical Minds,’ History Workshop Journal, 2006 61 (1): 281–7, 284, 286. Similar criticism comes from Michael Saler. Michael Saler, review of The Place of Enchantment: British Occultism and the Culture of the Modern, by Alex Owen, American Historical Review 2005 110 (3): 871–2, 872. 1 A New Order 1. R.A. Gilbert, Revelations of the Golden Dawn: The Rise and Fall of a Magical Order (London: Quantum, 1997), 34. 2. Gilbert, Revelations, 45. 3. Ellic Howe, The Magicians of the Golden Dawn: A Documentary History of a Magical Order 1887–1923 (London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1972; York Beach, Maine: Samuel Weiser, 1978). Gilbert, Revelations. -
Entheogenic Visions One Man’S Exploration of Psychedelics
Entheogenic Visions One Man’s Exploration of Psychedelics By Stewart Allen Mosher Copyright 2012 Look up on Youtube.com: Psychedelic Art by Stewart www.entheogenicvisions.com Email: [email protected] 1 Contents Dedication To Warning!!! Introduction: Flash Backs. Haiti: Operation Secure Tomorrow 2004 Preface Chapter 1: My introduction to Salvia Divinorum How should Salvia be used? What are you seeking to gain from using Salvia? Chapter 2: Sequence of Event that Prepared Me for Entheogens Chapter 3: The Introverted Experiences - Salvia Divinorum - The 1st Entheogen 1st Time/Salvia 10x/ “Welcome” 2nd Time/Salvia 15x/water pipe/ “Disrupting the Flow” 3rd Time/Salvia 20x/ “Pushing Me towards Her” 4th Time/Salvia 30x/ “Sticking Together” 5th Time/Salvia 30x/ “Putting Me to Sleep” 6th Time/Salvia 5x, 15x/ “Seeing as One” 7th Time/Salvia 5x, 10x and 15x/ “Future Journey” 8th Time/Salvia 10x/ “Having Fun” 9th Time/Salvia Tincture, two separate hits of 5x/ “Waiting to Be Born” 10th Time/Salvia 5x, 20x/ “I Will Meet Them” 11th Time/Salvia 20x/ “I Will Walk” 12th Time/Salvia 20x/ “Dashiki” 13th Time/Salvia 20x/ “Soul Retrieval” 14th Time/Salvia 20x/ “Puffs of Dimensions” 15th Time/Salvia 20x/ “The Golden Party” Friends 1st Time/Salvia 30x/ “Mysterious Lady” 16th Time/ Salvia 10x/ “Double Vision” Chapter 4: The Extroverted Experiences 17th and 18th Time/Salvia 30x/ “Confusion”—“Finding My Center” 19th Time/Salvia 30x/ “Going Beyond” 20th Time/Salvia 40x/ “Infinity” Bo’s 1st Time with Salvia 21st Time/Salvia 40x/ “Tree” 22nd-23rd-24th Time/Salvia 40x/ “DNA Within” 25th Time with visuals and 26th Time with body possession/Salvia 40x-30x/ “Mr. -
Aramaic and Mandean Magic and Their Demonology
University of Pennsylvania ScholarlyCommons Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate Dropsie College Theses Learning Spring 4-19-1956 Aramaic and Mandean Magic and Their Demonology Wilber B. Wallis Follow this and additional works at: https://repository.upenn.edu/dropsietheses Part of the Anthropology Commons, Cultural History Commons, History of Religion Commons, Jewish Studies Commons, Language Interpretation and Translation Commons, Religion Commons, and the Translation Studies Commons Recommended Citation Wallis, Wilber B., "Aramaic and Mandean Magic and Their Demonology" (1956). Dropsie College Theses. 14. https://repository.upenn.edu/dropsietheses/14 Library at the Katz Center - Archives Room Manuscript. BF1591 .W366 1956. This paper is posted at ScholarlyCommons. https://repository.upenn.edu/dropsietheses/14 For more information, please contact [email protected]. Aramaic and Mandean Magic and Their Demonology Abstract The Aramaic texts to be discussed in this thesis are magical incantations against evil powers. The texts are written on earthenware bowls found in archaeological investigations or by chance in Iraq and Iran. The bowls and texts appear to date from Sassanian Babylonia(1 Degree Type Dissertation Degree Name Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) First Advisor Cyrus H. Gordon Third Advisor Meir M. Bravmann Subject Categories Anthropology | Cultural History | History of Religion | Jewish Studies | Language Interpretation and Translation | Religion | Translation Studies Comments Library at the Katz Center - Archives Room Manuscript. BF1591 .W366 1956. This dissertation is available at ScholarlyCommons: https://repository.upenn.edu/dropsietheses/14 ARAMA ID AND ¥.ANDEAN MAGIC AND THE IR DEMONO LOGY A Dieeertation Presented to the Faculty of the Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy by Wil ber B. -
On the Demon-Mania of Witches, Jean Bodin (1580).Pdf
Jean Bodin On the Demon-Mania of W itches Translated by Randy A. Scott Abridged with an Introduction by Jonathan L. Pearl Notes by Randy A. Scott and Jonathan L. Pearl Toronto Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies 2001 CRRS Publications Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies Victoria University in the University of Toronto Toronto, Canada M5S 1K7 ® 2001 by the Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies All rights reserved. Canadian Cataloguing in Publication Data Bodin, Jean, 1530-1596 On the demon-mania of witches (Renaissance and Reformation texts in translation ; 7) Translation of: De la dcmonomanie des sorciers. Includes bibliographical references. ISBN 0-9697512-5-7 I. Witchcraft. 2. Magic. I. Scott, Randy A., 1944- II. Pearl, Jonathan L. III. Victoria University (Toronto, Ont.). Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies. IV. Title. V. Series. BF1602.B6313 1995 133.4 C95-931520-9 No part of this book may be translated or reproduced in any form, by print, photoprint, microfilm, or any other means, without written permission from the publisher. Cover illustration: woodcut from Francesco Maria Guazzo, Compendium Male- ficarum (1608). Cover design: Ian MacKenzie, ParaGraphics This book has been published with the help of a grant from the Canadian Federation for the Humanities, using funds provided by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. For Victor E. Graham and to our wives Kathy Pearl and Karen Scott with gratitude for their forebearance - Contents Introduction 9 The French Religious -
Haitian Vodou and Voodoo: Imagined Religion and Popular Culture Adam M
Studies in Religion/Sciences Religieuses http://sir.sagepub.com/ Haitian Vodou and Voodoo: Imagined Religion and Popular Culture Adam M. McGee Studies in Religion/Sciences Religieuses 2012 41: 231 originally published online 25 April 2012 DOI: 10.1177/0008429812441311 The online version of this article can be found at: http://sir.sagepub.com/content/41/2/231 Published by: http://www.sagepublications.com On behalf of: The Canadian Corporation for Studies in Religion Additional services and information for Studies in Religion/Sciences Religieuses can be found at: Email Alerts: http://sir.sagepub.com/cgi/alerts Subscriptions: http://sir.sagepub.com/subscriptions Reprints: http://www.sagepub.com/journalsReprints.nav Permissions: http://www.sagepub.com/journalsPermissions.nav Citations: http://sir.sagepub.com/content/41/2/231.refs.html Downloaded from sir.sagepub.com at Harvard Libraries on August 16, 2012 >> Version of Record - Jun 12, 2012 OnlineFirst Version of Record - Apr 25, 2012 What is This? Downloaded from sir.sagepub.com at Harvard Libraries on August 16, 2012 Studies in Religion / Sciences Religieuses 41(2) 231–256 ª The Author(s) / Le(s) auteur(s), 2012 Haitian Vodou and Reprints and permission/ Reproduction et permission: Voodoo: Imagined sagepub.co.uk/journalsPermissions.nav DOI: 10.1177/0008429812441311 Religion and Popular sr.sagepub.com Culture Adam M. McGee Harvard University Abstract: Vodou is frequently invoked as a cause of Haiti’s continued impoverishment. While scholarly arguments have been advanced for why this is untrue, Vodou is persistently plagued by a poor reputation. This is buttressed, in part, by the frequent appearance in popular culture of the imagined religion of ‘‘voodoo.’’ Vodou and voodoo have entwined destinies, and Vodou will continue to suffer from ill repute as long as voodoo remains an outlet for the expression of racist anxieties. -
Demon Lovers: Witchcraft, Sex, and the Crisis of Belief (Review) Michael D
History Publications History 2005 Demon Lovers: Witchcraft, Sex, and the Crisis of Belief (review) Michael D. Bailey Iowa State University, [email protected] Follow this and additional works at: http://lib.dr.iastate.edu/history_pubs Part of the Cultural History Commons, European History Commons, History of Religion Commons, Medieval History Commons, and the Other History Commons The ompc lete bibliographic information for this item can be found at http://lib.dr.iastate.edu/ history_pubs/28. For information on how to cite this item, please visit http://lib.dr.iastate.edu/ howtocite.html. This Book Review is brought to you for free and open access by the History at Iowa State University Digital Repository. It has been accepted for inclusion in History Publications by an authorized administrator of Iowa State University Digital Repository. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Demon Lovers: Witchcraft, Sex, and the Crisis of Belief (review) Abstract Walter Stephens has added an important contribution, not just to witchcraft tuds ies, but to late-medieval and early-modern studies as a whole. He opens with an account of demonic copulation from a witch trial in 1587 but then focuses almost exclusively on treatises and the "witchcraft theorists" who authored them. In his careful and wide-ranging reading of those sources, he follows the work of Stuart Clark (Thinking with Demons [Oxford, 1997]). But unlike Clark, who draws a firm line around 1500 and works to situate demonological literature amidst the larger intellectual currents of the early modern period, Stephens includes earlier treatises from the fifteenth century in his study. -
Exploring Entheogenic Entity Encounters
Divine Molecule Talks at Tyringham – Part II Exploring Entheogenic Entity Encounters Hosted by Anton J G Bilton at Tyringham Hall May 29th – June 1st, 2017 1 CONTENTS The Tyringham Initiative – A summary 3 Tyringham Hall – History 4 Objectives of the symposium - Dr David Luke 5 Exploring Entheogenic Entity Encounters – Anton Bilton 7 Programme Schedule 11 Presentation Speaker Abstracts 15 Possible Experiments 23 Presentation Speaker Biographies 26 Discussant Biographies 31 Team Biographies 38 2 THE TYRINGHAM INITIATIVE – A SUMMARY The Tyringham Initiative was launched at Tyringham Hall in 2015 as a world-class think-tank for the evolution, expansion and deeper understanding of ‘new-paradigm consciousness’, renowned in its enquiry for exploration, innovation, rigour and integrity. The Initiative has operated as a virtual platform for events and retreats, both initially at Tyringham itself and from 2017 onwards, at other locations around the globe. Through a unique integration of Science, Art and Spirit, The Tyringham Initiative could be described as a ‘Mystery School for the New Renaissance’, becoming both the incubator and the propagator for the ideas that will enable humanity to confront the systemic challenges of the 21st century – from the ecological and social, to the economic, metaphysical and the spiritual. We would welcome any thoughts from the assembled company about potential future collaboration. 3 TYRINGHAM HALL – HISTORY Tyringham Hall was designed by Sir John Soane in 1792 for William Praed, renowned banker and MP. Soane is regarded as one of the greatest architects of the neo-classical period. Tyringham was one of a series of new country houses he designed and the largest of the new villas constructed when his idiosyncratic style had fully matured. -
The Development of Shamanism and Its Social Functions in the Song Dynasty (960-1279): Taking Folktales in Record of the Listener
Seton Hall University eRepository @ Seton Hall Seton Hall University Dissertations and Theses Seton Hall University Dissertations and Theses (ETDs) Summer 7-9-2019 The evelopmeD nt of Shamanism and Its Social Functions in the Song Dynasty (960-1279): Taking Folktales in Record of the Listener as Major Examples Xiang Wei [email protected] Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarship.shu.edu/dissertations Part of the Chinese Studies Commons Recommended Citation Wei, Xiang, "The eD velopment of Shamanism and Its Social Functions in the Song Dynasty (960-1279): Taking Folktales in Record of the Listener as Major Examples" (2019). Seton Hall University Dissertations and Theses (ETDs). 2681. https://scholarship.shu.edu/dissertations/2681 THE DEVELOPMENT OF SHAMANISM AND ITS SOCIAL FUNCTIONS IN THE SONG DYNASTY (960-1279): TAKING FOLKTALES IN RECORD OF THE LISTENER AS MAJOR EXAMPLES BY XIANG WEI A THESIS SUBMITTED IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE DEGREE OF MASTER OF ARTS IN THE DEPARTMENT OF ASIAN STUDIES AT SETON HALL UNIVERSITY SOUTH ORANGE, NEW JERSEY 2019 © Xiang Wei 2019 ACKNOWLEDGEMENT First of all, I would like to express my gratitude to all those who helped me during the writing of this thesis. I gratefully acknowledge the help of my supervisor, Dr. Rice, who has offered me valuable suggestions in the academic studies. In the preparation of this thesis, he has spent much time reading through each draft and provided me with inspiring advice. Without his patient instruction, insightful criticism, and expert guidance, the completion of this thesis would not have been possible. -
Pázmány Péter Katolikus Egyetem Bölcsészet- És Társadalomtudományi Kar
Pázmány Péter Katolikus Egyetem Bölcsészet- és Társadalomtudományi Kar Történelemtudományi Doktori Iskola Vezetője: Dr. Őze Sándor DSc Enyedi Tamás Újrahasznosított vallások: Egyiptom a századforduló Hermetikus és Thelemikus gondolkodásában Doktori (PhD) Értekezés Témavezetők: Dr. Mezei Balázs DSc Dr. Bácskay András PhD Budapest,2019 Pázmány Péter Catholic University Faculty of Humanities and Social Studies Doctoral School of History Head of Doctoral School: Dr. Őze Sándor DSc Tamás Enyedi Recycled Religions: Egypt in Fin de Siécle Hermetic and Thelemic Thought Doctoral (PhD) Dissertation Supervisors: Dr. Mezei Balázs DSc Dr. Bácskay András Budapest, 2019. Table of Contents Introduction ................................................................................................................................ 1 Method, Sources, and Assumptions ........................................................................................... 7 The Occult Revival and History of the Golden Dawn ............................................................. 14 Disenchantment and the decline of religion ......................................................................... 14 Was there an Occult Revival? .............................................................................................. 20 Esoteric trends of the late nineteenth century ...................................................................... 25 An occult genealogy ............................................................................................................