![]() ![]() ![]() It makes sense: the women of my generation were girls then, and now we have come of age, and are shaping our own narratives, joining other female writers in grappling with perennial questions of power and agency. Things haven’t felt so witchy since the 1990s, when there was a glut of TV programmes such as Sabrina the Teenage Witch and Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and books and films on the subject. Since Trump’s election, which inspired mass spell-casting by thousands of “resistance witches” (the selection of judge Brett Kavanaugh for the supreme court also led to a mass “hex-in”), there has been a slew of novels, poetry collections and anthologies with witchcraft as their theme. In a #MeToo world, where Donald Trump – a fan of the term “witch-hunt” – is US president, it is really no surprise that female writers are examining the role of the witch in new ways. There has been a perennial literary fascination with witches they are, as Marion Gibson, professor of Renaissance and magical literatures at Exeter University says, “a shorthand symbol for persecution and resistance – misogyny and feminism in particular”. Yet these attitudes aren’t merely historical women continue to be persecuted for witchcraft in the world today. Their wisdom and their force must be neutralised through interrogation, torture and execution. ![]() History teaches us that witches are dangerous and must be brought down, punished and silenced. Or, to quote the novelist Madeline Miller, a woman with “more power than men have felt comfortable with”. A witch is a woman who has too much power. ![]()
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![]() ![]() While they occurred throughout much of early modern Europe, there was an enormous spike in witchcraft trials and executions in southwest Germany in the late 16th century. While suspicions and accusations of witchcraft have existed since the ancient world, the persecution of supposed witches skyrocketed in Western Europe during the 16th and 17th centuries. Yet, the history of witchcraft in the Western world has been much less whimsical and family-friendly. ![]() ![]() These witchy figures have served as popular villains in television shows, movies, and video games (enter one of my favorite fictional witches, the always-rhyming Gruntilda.) ![]() As such, this witchy figure shows up most commonly during the Halloween season, adorning various Halloween decorations, mugs, and T-shirts. This image has become a widespread and highly-marketable icon, helping to sell postcards, books, and even adorning the patch worn by the members of the town of Salem’s police department. These are the witches of common children’s literature, and this popular image pervades many of our pop culture representations of a witch. When we think of a stereotypical, pop-culture representation of a witch, we typically conjure up images of old, ugly hags wearing pointed hats, riding on broomsticks, and brewing potions in their black cauldrons. ![]() ![]() The book is followed by the second volume, published in 2004, Persepolis 2: The Story of a Return Each section is made of 7-10 pages on average and it highlights certain important events in Marjane Satrapi’s life. ![]() There are 19 relatively short sections (chapters) in Persepolis 1: The Story of a Childhood. She especially focuses on how the political dynamics in her country (the Islamic Revolution that took place at the beginning of the 1980s in Iran) bringing a huge impact in her and her parents’ lives. In the first volume, The Story of a Childhood, she depicts her childhood and early teen years. In Persepolis graphic novel, Satrapi traces back and represents her previous stages of life. The title of the books is taken from the name of Persian Empire ancient capital, Persepolis. It is the first part of Satrapi’s two volumes graphic memoir. ![]() First published in 2003, Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood is a graphic novel written and illustrated by Iranian comic writer and artist Marjane Satrapi. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The story returns to concepts established at the end of Crisis on Infinite Earths when Alex Luthor, Lois Lane of Earth-Two, Superboy-Prime and Superman of Earth-Two disappeared as the last surviving heroes of the destroyed Multiverse. Its conclusion was followed by the One Year Later event skipping ahead a full year in the timeline, while the missing year was explored in the 52 event. There were four lead-in mini-series' published as part of the Countdown to Infinite Crisis including Day of Vengeance, The OMAC Project, Rann-Thanagar War and Villains United. The story is told through an eponymous seven issue mini-series although tie-ins span the entire DC Universe. Infinite Crisis is a 2005- 2006 crossover event written by Geoff Johns with illustrations by Phil Jimenez, George Perez, Ivan Reis and Jerry Ordway. ![]() ![]() ![]() Simone Gold is a medical doctor and lawyer (yes she holds 2 masters degrees!) who was fired from her hospital after prescribing HCQ In combination with Azithromycin and Zinc “off lablel” to help cure her patients suffering from COVID. But they didn’t do it to their own relatives.” -From I Do Not Consentįantastic overview of the safety and effectiveness of Hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) and the devastating impacts it’s banning by Governments has had on the COVID-19 pandemic.ĭr. These governors made specific decisions that cost thousands of the most vulnerable, most expendable, their lives. ![]() New Jersey’s over seven thousand nursing home deaths account for half of the state’s fatalities since March. Relative to the total nursing home population, Governor Cuomo contributed to a larger percentage of nursing-home deaths-especially when compared to the states without such a policy. And sending post-hospitalization COVID-positive patients back to nursing homes was unnecessary. Was New York Governor Cuomo’s executive order sending COVID-hospitalized patients back to nursing homes to infect other vulnerable nursing home patients ‘following the science’? Of course not. ![]() It let people off the hook for their bad decisions in a crisis. “The bumper-sticker directive to ‘follow the science’ was actually an evasion of responsibility. From treating COVID patients in her local hospital to fighting for the rights of frontline doctors, Dr. Gold's White Paper on Hydroxychloroquine. ![]() ![]() ![]() This Essay is an expansion, in accordance with a preconceived scheme, of two papers, one on “The Witches in Macbeth,” and the other on “The Demonology of Shakspere,” which were read before the New Shakspere Society in the years 18. (LOND.) Barrister−at−Law, Honorary Treasurer of The New Shakspere Society London 1880 TO ROBERT BROWNING, PRESIDENT OF THE NEW SHAKSPERE SOCIETY, THIS VOLUME IS DEDICATED.įOREWORDS. E−text prepared by Imran Ghory, Stan Goodman, Linda Cantoni, and the Online Distributed Proofreading TeamĮLIZABETHAN DEMONOLOGY An Essay in Illustration of the Belief in the Existence of Devils, and the Powers Possessed By Them, as It Was Generally Held during the Period of the Reformation, and the Times Immediately Succeeding with Special Reference to Shakspere and His Works by THOMAS ALFRED SPALDING, LL.B. Table of Contents Elizabethan Demonology.1 Thomas Alfred Spalding.1 FOREWORDS.1 ANALYSIS.2 ELIZABETHAN DEMONOLOGY.4Įlizabethan Demonology Thomas Alfred Spalding This page formatted 2004 Blackmask Online. Elizabethan Demonology Thomas Alfred Spalding ![]() ![]() ![]() It’s reflected in how she entertains, decorates her home, and makes holidays special for her kids-not to mention how she talks, dances, and does her hair (in these pages, you will learn Reese’s fail-proof, only slightly insane hot-roller technique). She takes the South wherever she goes with bluegrass, big holiday parties, and plenty of Dorothea’s fried chicken. ![]() Reese’s southern heritage informs her whole life, and she loves sharing the joys of southern living with practically everyone she meets. Reese Witherspoon’s grandmother Dorothea always said that a combination of beauty and strength made southern women “whiskey in a teacup.” We may be delicate and ornamental on the outside, she said, but inside we’re strong and fiery. Touchstone has a great book for every reader.Īcademy award-winning actress, producer, and entrepreneur Reese Witherspoon invites you into her world, where she infuses the southern style, parties, and traditions she loves with contemporary flair and charm. ![]() ![]() ![]() I like “The Hard Thing About Hard Things” by Ben Horowitz. Here is the list from the first 21 guests. “The Manager’s Path: A Guide for Tech Leaders Navigating Growth and Change” by Camille Fournier was recommended by 2 guests.Īnd interestingly, one guest recommended not reading books.“Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable“ by Patrick Lencioni was recommended by 2 guests.Mickey Mantle and Ron Lichty’s book “Managing the Unmanageable: Rules, Tools, and Insights for Managing Software People and Teams” was recommended by 2 separate guests.“High Output Management” by former Intel president Andy Grove was recommended by 3 separate guests.See newly updated: Most Recommended Books for Engineering Leaders (updated 2022)Ī returns over 1,000,000 results for “management books.” Which are the best ones? Here are the books that the first 21 engineering leaders on recommended in answer to the question, “If you could recommend one book to engineering managers, what would it be and why?”īefore we get to the complete list, the following four books were recommended by more than 1 guest. ![]() ![]() ![]() I was getting my MFA in nonfiction writing at Columbia, taking classes with Hilton Als and Leslie Jamison, and I started to do some writing about my relationship with my body, which led to some of the research that became the foundation of the book. How did you get the idea to turn these observations into a book? How could a body part come in and out of fashion? There seemed to be so many cultural and historical factors at play. But later in my life, my butt started to attract a different, more positive kind of attention. In that time and place, having a big butt was not considered desirable, especially for a white woman, and I felt the kind of mundane shame most of us have about our bodies. ![]() I have a big butt, and when I was growing up in the 1990s in a suburb of Lansing, Michigan, I was teased about it. How did you become interested in this unusual subject? ![]() ![]() ![]() Otah is accused, the long-missing brother with an all-too-obvious motive for murder. ![]() The Galts, an expansive empire, has allied with someone in Machi to bring down the ruling house. But something even worse is occurring in Machi. Tradition dictates that the sons of a dying Khai fall upon each other until only one remains to succeed his father. Now his father-the Khai, or ruler, of Machi-is dying and his eldest brother Biitrah has been assassinated, Otah realizes that he must return to Machi, for reasons not even he understands. Decades later, he has witnessed and been part of world-changing events. Now he has produced an even more powerful sequel, a tragedy as darkly personal and violent as Shakespeare's Macbeth.Īs a boy, Otah Machi was exiled from his family, Machi's ruling house. Daniel Abraham delighted fantasy readers with his brilliant, original, and engaging first novel, A Shadow in Summer. ![]() |