Getting It Wrong: The Problems with Reinventing the Past
This article is an examination of recent best-selling fictions and television adaptations which portray the history of witchcraft, often using outmoded historical theses, and often falsifying the known life histories of actual convicted witches. This article argues that these fictions, marked by pro...
| Outros títulos: | Special Issue: Paganism, art, and fashion |
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| Tipo de documento: | Recurso Electrónico Artigo |
| Idioma: | Inglês |
| Verificar disponibilidade: | HBZ Gateway |
| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
| Publicado em: |
[2019]
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| Em: |
The pomegranate
Ano: 2019, Volume: 21, Número: 2, Páginas: 256-277 |
| (Cadeias de) Palavra- chave padrão: | B
Bruxaria
/ Magia
/ História
/ Neopaganismo
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| Classificações IxTheo: | AG Vida religiosa AZ Nova religião T História |
| Outras palavras-chave: | B
Reinvention
B Television B Witches B Antisemitism B Contemporary Pagans |
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| Resumo: | This article is an examination of recent best-selling fictions and television adaptations which portray the history of witchcraft, often using outmoded historical theses, and often falsifying the known life histories of actual convicted witches. This article argues that these fictions, marked by problematically eugenicist ideas of magic, and in one case by a very uncomfortable appropriation of the Holocaust, are ultimately unhelpful to Pagans because they falsify history and deny the real needs of the contemporary Pagan communities. |
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| ISSN: | 1743-1735 |
| Obras secundárias: | Enthalten in: The pomegranate
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1558/pome.39116 |
