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Yet alleged witches, usually women, children and elderly persons are still routinely attacked, banished and killed.
We know the emotions and moods of men and women are more similar than different, so let's walk away from the tired old PMS myth of women as witches and embrace the reality of high emotional and professional functioning the great majority of women live every day.
More fringe theories that the book was written by a coven of Italian witches, or even by Martians.
But dare to declare depression, and your local pastor will be driving out demons and blaming witches in your village.
Just remember stories of giants and witches and wizards and monsters and things that were so colorful and bigger than life.
Not a metaphorical one, the way we use it today, but a literal magic spell associated with witches and gypsies and to some extent, Celtic magic.
It really gained traction after the pope gave a friar and professor of theology named Heinrich Kraemer permission to conduct inquisitions in search of witches in 1485.
Undeterred, he wrote a book called the "Malleus Maleficarum," or "Hammer of Witches."
The text argued for the existence of witches and suggested ruthless tactics for hunting and prosecuting them.
He singled out women as easier targets for the devil’s influence, though men could also be witches.
According to these texts, witches practiced rituals including kissing the Devil’s anus and poisoning or bewitching targets the devil singled out for harm.
Though there was no evidence to support any of these claims, belief in witches became widespread.
Community members blamed witchcraft, and accused each other of being witches.
While religious authorities encouraged witch hunts, local secular governments usually carried out the detainment and punishment of accused witches.
Punishments for convicted witches ranged from small fines to burning at the stake.
But Ilmarinen refused to go to the gloomy North— a land of witches and man-eaters.
But rather than stifling their expansion, this edict forced humans to evolve in startling ways— becoming biological computers, psychic witches, and prescient space pilots.
Will Spanner (David Byrnes, the fifth actor to play the role in the series) stumbles onto another bizarre case, this time involving vampires rather than the usual witches, warlocks & demons (he's at the hospital to check on his friend's son who got hurt in a hit and run when they wheel a girl who's been attacked by a vamp in).
They took a fascinating fantasy world of Barbarian tribes, farming villages, witches, supernatural creatures, and a cult of religious fanatics using a pyramid; and thought it would be funny to mix in our materialistic pop-culture world of rock & roll, sushi (I think thats what it was), and flashy sports cars.
After eliminating Rosemary (here played by Patty Duke) a coven of witches, again led by Minnie & Roman Castevets, preps Satan's son for world domination.
Basic summary: Ipswitch used to be a community of witches and escaped the Salem witch hunts by forming a covenant of secrecy.
As the maniac come out of the house crying saying "There Mean Witches".
After their battle, the witches realize that a camera caught everything!
However, they are filmed and exposed live in the television news as witches.
Leo goes down to Phoebe, and tells her that the Charmed Ones have been exposed as witches.
After seeing MIDNIGHT OFFERINGS I am still convinced that the first decent movie about (teenage) witches yet has to be made.
The only film I more or less enjoyed (about teenage witches) was LITTLE WITCHES (1996), and even that one wasn't very good.
The landlady reminded me of witches that of seen in other movies.
Whether she is sleepwalking or mesmerized by the witches of the title is never explained.
There are other things, including a chained wild man in a cave who is never explained, an attempt to sacrifice the writer in some way (will they kill her or brainwash her into joining them?), the witches themselves, a bunch of brunette women in white robes who don't show up until the last 15 minutes of the film and whose practices and beliefs are never explained.
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