To clarify what's out there to be investigated, Southall begins the handbook in earnest by defining the terms, since ghosts, spirits and poltergeists are not interchangeable and represent quite different phenomena.Ghosts and apparitions are a kind a recording on the environment - a residual energy that can come from a person, animal or even an inanimate object. We can experience these lingering energies by sight, sound, smell and touch. Spirits are what people most often think of as "ghosts." A spirit is the "actual sentient presence, or soul, of an individual or individuals who have remained in the material world after his or her physical body has died." Southall continues by describing different types of spirits and the reasons they may have stayed behind.…
According to an article on wcax.com, “more Vermonters died from opiate overdoses last year [2011] than murders and traffic fatalities combined.” Some opiates have medically valid uses, while others are recreational drugs of abuse. All are physically addictive, and it has become evident that many people have begun to abuse them. Pharmaceutical drugs have taken over the minds of many Vermonters.…
They are the supernatural elements that seem to exist within the realm of the natural; my poor fellow the subject of such an occurrence was distraught, confused and anxious it is his death that has kept me awake at night thinking of…
“She did not hear the story as many women have heard the same, with a paralyzed inability to accept its significance. She wept at once, with sudden, wild abandonment, in her sister's arms.” (Chopin)…
The setting of Bram Stoker’s Dracula is in the late nineteenth-century London, where the flourishing of technology is replacing people’s belief of the old superstitious ways. The characters in this novel experience contacts with the supernatural beings that is unable to be proven even by the most advanced technology at the time, which leads them to doubt their own sanity. However, the progression of the novel proves that peace is restored into the characters’ lives after their doubts and confusions about what is reality and who is really mad. Ultimately, the categorization of the sane against the mad is unnecessary since the distinguishing factors shown in the novel are ambiguous. Subsequently, no characters can truly be justified with being labelled as one type over the other.…
For example, during the time period of the 1600’s, the belief in the supernatural was a common and exciting thing. “Elizabethan era citizens believed that certain actions would invite good or bad luck, just as other actions could ward off bad luck.” This belief in the supernatural gave the play Macbeth much more credibility in the fact that it was relatable to the time period. Along with flattering King James by adding in scenes related to him, including supernatural efforts gave Shakespeare an even better reputation. King James “was England's greatest witch hunter who was responsible for the deaths of more British witches than any other monarch in the history of England” (bukiska.com) Adding the supernatural elements made Macbeth even more watchable than it would have been without them.…
The French Diet, French Women Don’t Get Fat, and Mastering the Art of French Eating are all titles found in American bookstores. It seems our society has an obsession with the French and the way they eat. It is also how author Mary Maxfield begins her article “Food as a Thought”.…
The supernatural is frightening to some people, but to others a way of life. It just depends on the way people look at the supernatural. Some people may see it as the world afterlife or life after death. To the people that see it as evil might think of it as a way of controlling someone. Like the famous play by William Shakespeare, Macbeth, the protagonist Macbeth encounters three witches after fighting the thane of Hardwell. There the three witches’ plant a seed of madness inside Macbeth’s head by telling him the future and he commits unspeakable crimes to make their predictions come true. Macbeth suffers for his crimes but was but was it his own fault or was the witches mischief and meddling to blame.…
The Project Gutenberg EBook of A History of Witchcraft in England from 1558 to 1718, by Wallace Notestein This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org Title: A History of Witchcraft in England from 1558 to 1718 Author: Wallace Notestein Release Date: March 5, 2010 [EBook #31511] Language: English Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK WITCHCRAFT *** Produced by Suzanne Lybarger, Brian Janes, Meredith Bach, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net PRIZE ESSAYS OF THE AMERICAN HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION…
Uncanny encounters with visions and hallucinations blur the presumed constraints of time and space. The ‘phantasms’ or sensory impressions incited by diurnal experiences which are unrealized in normal consciousness, gets holistically unveiled through conjuration of dreams. Referring to one of the foremost exponents of ‘weird’ literature Howard Phillips Lovecraft, definite emotions of pain and pleasure were associated to phenomena whose cause and effect could be discerned by men but those beyond his power of comprehension were marvellously interpreted as supernatural ploys thus, sowing the seeds of awe among a race possessing limited experience. The process of dreaming aided in constructing the notion of an unreal or spiritual world towards which man’s natural response was fear and hence, man’s hereditary essence became saturated with superstitions. Though the territory of the unknown has diminished in the present times, a physiological fixation in our nervous tissues makes the inherent associations, clinging around objects and processes once mysterious (but now explainable), become operative even when the conscious mind has been purged of all wonder. The appearance of the three Weird sisters at the inception of Shakespeare’s timeless play, Macbeth, excites a sense of awe coupled with a subtle dread due to contact with unknown spheres and forces and their re-appearance in the third scene after the King’s order establishes the influence of ‘supernatural soliciting’.…
The supernatural reflected the atmosphere and the beliefs of Scotland and much of Europe in the sixteenth century. Macbeth is a story that is completely engulfed with supernatural elements. It is more a supernatural story than it is drama. Madness, mayhem and horror are all words that best describe this play. Three hideous witches, a floating dagger and apparitions are all supernatural elements that the reader finds in Macbeth. Most importantly, these elements are major causes of Macbeths path of ambition, murder madness and his ultimate downfall. As the story progresses we see the supernatural events change location starting from the witches cavern to Macbeths castle. All this shows that Macbeth is highly dependent and seduced by the supernatural.…
If one were to mention the concept of witchcraft, certain notions would instantaneously come to mind. For some, witchcraft stirs ideas of grotesque old crones draped in ill-fitting garments riding a broom across the heavens; oftentimes, these figures are represented with a common black cat to serve as their familiar. Likewise, others may think of witchcraft in terms of Hollywood blockbuster films such as The Wizard of Oz or perhaps even The Witches of Eastwick. As fanciful and alluring as these interpretations of witchcraft may be, they are at best a poor parody for the historical realities of the fear inspired by witches and the cruelties that this fear unleashed, particularly in Colonial British America during the 17th and 18th centuries.…
Supernatural can be change to another word ‘Paranormal’, on the one hand many people think there is no known explanation for it –yet, and others they use “supernatural” the way some people speak of “there is the God!”, until somebody finds a scientific evidence to prove it. The world of the Supernatural is the area of the paranormal, UFOs, spirits, near death experiences, witchcraft, the god of religions and superstition.…
animal 's but in this play - a cat, and a toad are used - who are actually evil…
(Porter 2002). Even through the Middle Ages demonic possession and witchcraft were thought to be…