Bewitched And Bedeviled

Author : K. Uszkalo
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137498226
Total Pages : 263 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bewitched and Bedeviled written by K. Uszkalo and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-01-18 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Narratives of possession have survived in early English medical and philosophical treatises. Using ideas derived from cognitive science, this study moves through the stages of possession and exorcism to describe how the social, religious, and medical were internalized to create the varied manifestations of demon possession in early modern England.

Author : K. Uszkalo
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9781349702527
Total Pages : 263 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bewitched and Bedeviled written by K. Uszkalo and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 2014-01-14 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Narratives of possession have survived in early English medical and philosophical treatises. Using ideas derived from cognitive science, this study moves through the stages of possession and exorcism to describe how the social, religious, and medical were internalized to create the varied manifestations of demon possession in early modern England.

Author : Samuel Marx
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 287 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rodgers & Hart written by Samuel Marx and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Kirsten C. Uszkalo
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 0271090987
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Being Bewitched written by Kirsten C. Uszkalo and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2017-02-22 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1622, thirteen-year-old Elizabeth Jennings fell strangely ill. After doctors’ treatments proved useless, her family began to suspect the child had been bewitched, a suspicion that was confirmed when Elizabeth accused their neighbor Margaret Russell of witchcraft. In the events that followed, witchcraft hysteria intertwines with family rivalries, property disputes, and a web of supernatural beliefs. Starting from a manuscript account of the bewitchment, Kirsten Uszkalo sets the story of Elizabeth Jennings against both the specific circumstances of the powerful Jennings family and the broader history of witchcraft in early modern England. Fitting together the intricate pieces of this complex puzzle, Uszkalo reveals a story that encompasses the iron grip of superstition, the struggle among professionalizing medical specialties, and London’s lawless and unstoppable sprawl. In the picture that emerges, we see the young Elizabeth, pinned like a live butterfly at the dark center of a web of greed and corruption, sickness and lunacy.

Author : J. D. Winters
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781974478699
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bewitched, Bedeviled, and Bewildered written by J. D. Winters and published by . This book was released on 2017-08-16 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A magical legacy going back generations? Who needs it!"I'd rather have some paid up bills," Sybil says. "Or maybe a pony," agrees teenager Lucy. Mimi seems to be the only one of the three sisters who appreciates what they've had left to them by their grandmother, a widely-known and once-powerful witch. Now if she could just get the others on board with saving the world-or at least their little corner of it. She's got a black cat familiar on her side-and maybe some interest from handsome newsman Max Ransom. Other than that, she's on her own. Maybe what she ought to find is a good ancient how-to book on world saving. She's going to need it.

Author : M. E. Reilly-McGreen
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1614230633
Total Pages : 141 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Witches, Wenches & Wild Women of Rhode Island written by M. E. Reilly-McGreen and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2013-05-28 with total page 141 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover the most fearsome and fascinating women to ever live in the Ocean State in this collection of wild historical profiles. In Witches, Wenches & Wild Women of Rhode Island, local historian M.E. Reilly-McGreen reveals true tales of women who caused scandals in their day. It’s a compendium of rebellious deeds, outlandish gossip, and superstition run amok. Mercy Brown was a nineteen-year-old consumption victim thought to be a vampire. Locals were so afraid of Mercy that her body was exhumed to perform a ritual banishment of the undead. Goody Seager was accused of infesting her neighbor’s cheese with maggots by using witchcraft. According to legend, Tall “Dutch” Kattern was an opium-eating fortuneteller whose curse set a ship aflame after its crew cast her ashore. Along with these tales, you’ll read of revolutionaries, like Julia Ward Howe, who invented Mother’s Day; and religious reformers like Anne Hutchinson, said to be the inspiration for Hawthorne's heroine in The Scarlet Letter; and many others.

Author : Patricia Selbert
Publisher : Publishing by the Seas
ISBN 13 : 0983338132
Total Pages : 213 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The House of Six Doors written by Patricia Selbert and published by Publishing by the Seas. This book was released on 2011-02-22 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 1st Runner Up-Eric Hoffer Award-General Fiction 2011 1st Runner Up-San Francisco Book Festival-Teenage Category 2011 Mama takes thirteen-year-old Serena and her sister to the US in search of fortune, leaving behind their multicultural family, stability, and the colors of the Caribbean. After driving from Miami to Hollywood, their money and luck run out and a 1963 Ford Galaxie becomes their first American home. Guided by the memory of her native Cura ao and the words of her wise grandmother, Serena confronts unimagined challenges and grows up quickly. What gifts will this new country bring, and at what price? "Intimate, at times lyrical, charged with pain and wonder, laughter and perennial hope, The House of Six Doors is terrific storytelling." Olga Rojer, Associate Professor, American University, Washington DC "An honest tale of love, acceptance, and American dreams." --El Mundo If you feel as though the circumstances of your life are against you and you wonder whether this will ever change, this is a story that will fill you with hope. --David Robert Ord, author, "Lessons in Loving, A Journey into the Heart" The book is about affairs of the heart, clashing cultures, courage and how we each deal differently with love and pain. ...there is a Hemingwayesque type of reportage to it it 's satisfying. --Michael Bowker, author, Winning the Battle Within

Author : Hugh Pendexter
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Red Road written by Hugh Pendexter and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Edward Chancellor
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0452281806
Total Pages : 401 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Devil Take the Hindmost written by Edward Chancellor and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2000-06-01 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A lively, original, and challenging history of stock market speculation from the 17th century to present day. Is your investment in that new Internet stock a sign of stock market savvy or an act of peculiarly American speculative folly? How has the psychology of investing changed—and not changed—over the last five hundred years? In Devil Take the Hindmost, Edward Chancellor traces the origins of the speculative spirit back to ancient Rome and chronicles its revival in the modern world: from the tulip scandal of 1630s Holland, to “stockjobbing” in London's Exchange Alley, to the infamous South Sea Bubble of 1720, which prompted Sir Isaac Newton to comment, “I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies, but not the madness of people.” Here are brokers underwriting risks that included highway robbery and the “assurance of female chastity”; credit notes and lottery tickets circulating as money; wise and unwise investors from Alexander Pope and Benjamin Disraeli to Ivan Boesky and Hillary Rodham Clinton. From the Gilded Age to the Roaring Twenties, from the nineteenth century railway mania to the crash of 1929, from junk bonds and the Japanese bubble economy to the day-traders of the Information Era, Devil Take the Hindmost tells a fascinating story of human dreams and folly through the ages.

Author : Claudia M. Schmidt
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 9780271046976
Total Pages : 492 pages
Book Rating : 4.7X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book David Hume written by Claudia M. Schmidt and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2010-11-01 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his seminal Philosophy of David Hume (1941), Norman Kemp Smith called for a study of Hume &"in all his manifold activities: as philosopher, as political theorist, as economist, as historian, and as man of letters,&" indicating that &"Hume's philosophy, as the attitude of mind that found for itself these various forms of expression, will then have been presented, adequately and in due perspective, for the first time.&" Claudia Schmidt seeks to address this long-standing need in Hume scholarship. Against the charges that Hume holds no consistent philosophical position, offers no constructive account of rationality, and sees no positive relation between philosophy and other areas of inquiry, Schmidt argues for the overall coherence of Hume's thought as a study of &"reason in history.&" She develops this interpretation by tracing Hume's constructive account of human cognition and its historical dimension as a unifying theme across the full range of his writings. Hume, she shows, provides a positive account of the ways in which our concepts, beliefs, emotions, and standards of judgment in different areas of inquiry are shaped by experience, both in the personal history of the individual and in the life of a community. This book is valuable at many levels: for students, as an introduction to Hume's writings and issues in their interpretation; for Hume specialists, as a unified and intriguing interpretation of his thought; for philosophers generally, as a synthesis of recent developments in Hume scholarship; and for scholars in other disciplines, as a guide to Hume's contributions to their own fields.