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There is a little-known tradition of witch lore in Newfoundland culture. Those believed to have the power to influence the fortunes of others are not mythological characters but neighbours, relations, or even friends. Drawing from her own interviews and a wealth of material from the Memorial University Folklore and Language Archive, Barbara Rieti explores the range and depth of Newfoundland witch tradition, looking at why certain people acquired reputations as witches, and why others considered themselves bewitched. The tales that emerge - despite their seemingly fantastic elements of spells and black heart books, hags, and healing charms - concern everyday affairs and reveal the intense social interdependence central to outport life. Frequently featuring women, they provide fascinating new perspectives on female coping strategies in a volatile economy. By addressing the perennial human issues at the heart of witchcraft - construction of enmity and intertwined fate - these narrative accounts also illuminate older witch beliefs revealed in witchcraft trial documents. Making Witches shows that in storytelling communities with a rich legacy of witch lore, witch tradition has endured well into the twentieth century.

Witchcraft --- Witches --- Incantations --- Sorcellerie --- Sorcières --- History. --- Histoire. --- Sorcieres

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"Sorcières ! Tremblez, elles sont de retour...Les sorcières sont parmi nous. Pas une manifestation féministe sans un rappel à cette figure historique peuplant depuis des siècles nos imaginations. «Nous sommes les petites filles des sorcières que vous n'avez pas pu brûler » clament-elles déjà en 1968. Cinquante ans plus tard, comment expliquer la résurgence actuelle de la figure de la sorcière ? On les a poursuivies, on les a torturées et, pour des dizaines de milliers, on les a brûlées. On leur a reproché de pactiser avec le diable, de participer à des orgies ou encore de dévorer des enfants .Ces sorcières fascinent autant qu’elles ont effrayé nos rêves enfantins. Cet ouvrage collectif vise à établir un dialogue entre les sorcières d’hier et d’aujourd’hui. Grâce à l’art, aux archives, au cinéma, à la danse, à la chanson, à la BD, à la performance et à un brin de magie, Witches questionne la figure de la sorcière, en dessine la cartographie de son imaginaire, de sa représentation à travers les siècles et éprouve sa résonance actuelle." Source : site de l'éditeur

Witches in art --- Women in art --- Gender identity in art --- Feminism --- Witches --- Sex discrimination against women --- Male domination (Social structure) --- Women --- Sorcières dans l'art --- Femmes dans l'art --- Identité sexuelle dans l'art --- Féminisme --- Sorcières --- Discrimination à l'égard des femmes --- Domination masculine (Structure sociale) --- Femmes --- Violence against --- History --- Social conditions --- Violence envers --- Histoire --- Conditions sociales --- Witchcraft --- Demonomania

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The figure of the witch is familiar from the work of early modern German, Dutch, and Flemish artists, but much less so in the work of their Italian counterparts. Art and Witchcraft in Early Modern Italy seeks to explore the ways in which representations of witchcraft emerged from and coincided with the main cultural currents and artistic climate of an epoch chiefly celebrated for its humanistic and rational approaches. Through an in depth examination of a panoply of arresting paintings, engravings, and drawings -- variously portraying a hag-ridden colossal phallus, a horror-stricken necromancer dodging the devil's scrabbling claws, and a nocturnal procession presided over by an infanticidal crone -- Guy Tal offers new ways of reading witchcraft images through and beyond conventional iconography. Artists such as Parmigianino, Alessandro Allori, Leonello Spada, and Angelo Caroselli effected visual commentaries on demonological notions that engaged their audience in a tantalizing experience of interpretation.

History of art and design styles: c 1400 to c 1600. --- History of art and design styles: c 1600 to c 1800. --- ART / History / Renaissance. --- ART / History / Baroque & Rococo. --- HISTORY / Renaissance. --- Paintings and painting. --- History of art. --- History, Art History, and Archaeology --- Art and Material Culture --- ART & MAT --- Early Modern Studies --- EARLY MOD --- Medieval Studies --- MEDIEVAL --- witch, magic, demonology, imagination, early modern art --- Witches in art. --- Sorcières --- Witchcraft in art. --- Sorcellerie --- Art --- Witchcraft --- Art, Italian. --- Art. --- Folklore. --- Dans l'art. --- History. --- Histoire. --- Italy. --- Esoteric sciences --- Iconography --- magic [occult science] --- witchcraft --- anno 1500-1599 --- anno 1600-1699 --- Italy --- Art, Italian --- Sorcellerie dans l'art. --- Art italien --- HIS