From Agatha to Elphaba, it’s been a season of witches on film and television. But whatever charms witches conjure in the narratives that entertain us, the MUBI documentary “Witches” shows ...
Elizabeth Sankey tells IndieWire about the magic of fair use and using images of witches — and women — in film and TV to tell her own story. Director Elizabeth Sankey does this using the ...
And something that keeps coming back to me from my reading about the witch trials is that quite often these women were using the framework of witchcraft and demonology and stuff to talk about things ...
This list was originally published in 2017 as part of Vulture’s Witch Week. We’ve since added more movies to the cauldron, including Wicked. For our favorite TV witches, cast your eyes on this ...
Movies about witchcraft can be the darkest movies ever known to us, like the ‘Blair Witch Project,’ but on the other hand, they can also bring back the sweetest nostalgic memories of the good old days ...
No one doubts (p. 27) that Blackstone (“Commentaries”, 4, 60; 1765) wrote that “to deny the possibility, nay, the actual existence of witchcraft and sorcery is at once flatly to contradict ...
He also has a research focus on witchcraft studies and early modern demonology, more particularly on literary approaches to demonological treatises, witchcraft pamphlets and accounts of demonic ...
Will the real Wicked Witch of the West please stand up? Not the lady with the green face, black hat and broomstick, from the 1939 MGM movie "The Wizard of Oz." Not the glamorous green diva from ...
In a bizarre series of events, a woman has filed a case in a Los Angeles court, requesting a restraining order against Hollywood actress Angelina Jolie over allegations of “child trafficking" and ...
Pregnant Pak Woman Killed, Chopped Into Pieces By In-Laws Over "Witchcraft" Suspicion Zara Qadir, who was in her 20s, went missing last week. Later police found the chopped body of a woman in ...
Nope, we’re not in The Wizard of Oz territory anymore. In that 1939 masterpiece, the sparkly, princess-like Good Witch of the North (played by Billie Burke) who greets Dorothy after she lands in ...
Next, the wider context is addressed – namely how witchcraft itself is placed in a liminal spot at the edges of meaning, understanding, knowledge, definition, and power. As Marion Gibson and Jo Ann ...