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Witchcraft or Delusion

This paper contends the Salem witch trials erupted not because of real witchcraft but because of delusions in the mind of the vill...

Kris Kringle's Personality

In five pages this paper analyzes Kris Kringle's personality in a consideration of delusions, hallucinations, and cognitive functi...

Witchcraft and its Themes

and slowly the esoteric mystery of the evil eye is vanishing. Historians such as Jeffrey Burton Russell (Witchcraft in the Mid...

Sexual Promiscuity and Witchcraft

In six pages this paper examines witchcraft in America in an overview of the misconceptions regarding a relationship between witch...

Existence, Delusion, Doubt, and Destiny

yet highly controversial Theory of Evolution in 1859, a theory impressive in its presentation and scientific reasoning but unmista...

David Bentley Hart's Atheist Delusions

has been telling about itself for centuries now" (35). This "story" is one which rejects the positive elements of religion, especi...

An Examination of the Salem Witch Trials

Introduction In the dead of winter in...

Symptoms of Schizophrenia

In two pages this paper examines schizophrenia's symptoms in a consideration of thought pattern disturbances, hallucinations, delu...

Friedrich Nietzsche on Morality

In five pages this paper examines a good and evil quote from the beginning of Friedrich Nietzsche's essay 'On the Genealogy of Mor...

Uncanniness in The Turn of the Screw by Henry James

interpretations. It is, first and foremost, a Gothic novel, which sets the tone for the supernatural aspect of this uncanny work....

History of Schizophrenia

In seven pages this paper discusses schizophrenia in a historical overview that also includes its symptoms such as hallucinations ...

Madness as a Common Literary Theme

This paper examines Shakespeare's play, King Lear, as well as Ibsen's work, Ghosts to discuss madness and delusion as common theme...

Comparative View of Salem's Witch Trials

In five pages this paper contrasts and compares the views of the Salem witch trials presented in Francis Hill's A Delusion of Sata...

Overview of Delusional Misidentification

have surgery or wear masks to look like another. The film Face Off demonstrates how someone could be mistaken for another individu...

Middle Ages' Europe Magic and Witchcraft

understood. Externalisation of problems was far simpler than to look to rational explanations when science was only in its infancy...

Women Targeted in Puritan Witchcraft Accusations

was execution day for eight people in Salem Village, Massachusetts. Their crime: allegedly practicing witchcraft and worshipping ...

Wiccan Traditioins and Last Century's Witchcraft Perspectives

Wiccan traditions and have a long-standing history in centuries of community activity and ritual beliefs. During the Crusades, th...

Race Issues in I, Tituba, Black Witch of Salem

Tituba is viewed as the first witch--black or white-- to actually confess (Anderson). This makes this black woman quite an interes...

Western Cultural Influenced by Witchcraft

Witchcraft and how it has influenced Western culture are examined in a paper consisting of nine pages with prejudice and the tradi...

The Crucible by Arthur Miller

Ini six pages this paper first examines the playwright's life and effects of the Great Depression on Miller and his writings and t...

Salem Political Order and Witchcraft

In eight pages this paper examines how the witchcraft that characterized Salem, Massachusetts of the seventeenth century was actua...

Reformation Christian Witch Hunts and Women

already disintegrating old faith. Growing social unrest during that particular era had found expression in witchcraft as well as i...

European Witchcraft by E.W. Monter

In five pages this paper examines how European witchcraft is presented in the text by E.W. Monter with religious perspectives offe...

Power in The Crucible by Arthur Miller

In five pages the three power wielding groups of the desire for emancipation for women, the false witchcraft accusations by girls,...

Middle Ages Witchcraft Perceptions and Hysteria

In fifteen pages Middle Ages' perceptions regarding witchcraft and the persecution of accused witches are examined. Twenty source...

Puritanism, Witchcraft, and 'Young Goodman Brown' by Nathaniel Hawthorne

In five pages this essay examines how Puritanism and witchcraft contribute to the setting of this short story by Nathaniel Hawthor...

1692 Salem Witch Trials

Salem, but our proposed question allowed the possibility of a number of factors influencing the trials and ergot poisoning was ju...

Salem Witch Trials, A Feminist Analysis

This research paper/essay pertains to the Salem witchcraft trials. The writer discusses the history of the trials and then discuss...

The Thirteenth Century French Greyhound St Guineforte

Although the tale of St. Guineforte revolved to a large degree around Christian iconography and teachings, it was condemned by the...

Analysis of the Salem Witch Trials

Investigating this question, Pestana offers excerpts from the works of four historians who have contrasting opinions. These four h...