Tag: Witchcraft

• Ultimate Fantasy: Magic, Murder & Performing Femininity in The Love Witch

  

  Melissa Pleckham explains that for thousands of years there has been no symbol of feminine power more polarizing than the witch. Societal perceptions of witchcraft have swung wildly from reverence to scorn and back again, as female healers and magicians are viewed as either benevolent sages or as cunning manipulators seeking only to castrate men,…

  Death and the Maiden

  02/04/2018

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  Anna Biller, Cinema, Feminine, Feminism, Film, Music, patriarchy, the love witch, Witchcraft

• Proboscis Tongues and Demonic Queefing

  In examining the reasons why pregnant women and young infants have traditionally been seen as particularly vulnerable to demonic influences, it may be necessary to look at popular views concerning soul belief and young infants.  In many cases, very young children are seen as occupying a liminal status  between the world of the living and…

  Death and the Maiden

  15/06/2015

  Guest Post

  Anglo-Saxon, Childbirth, Christianity, Culture, Deadmaidens, Death, Demons, Experiences, Folklore, History, Jewish Culture, Medieval, Pregnancy, Sex, Soul, Stories, Witchcraft, Women