The Moorland Witch. A Dramatic Cantata

"You Cannot Use My Broom! I'm the Witch, You're the Prince": Collaboration in a Virtual Dramatic Game

In this paper we discuss how collaboration issues are addressed in the context of Teatrix, a virtual environment aiming at providing the children with the means for collaboratively creating a story on a virtual stage. The children create stories using a set of pre-defined scenes and dramatis personae characters that have specific roles in the play, which they control to a certain extent). Each ...

Salem Witch Trials: The Fungus Theory Witch or Psychedelic Trip?

During the winter of 1692 eight girls came down with a mysterious and terrifying illness in the colonial town of Salem, Massachusetts. They vomited, screamed incomprehensibly, claimed to see things that weren’t there, felt the crawling and pricking of invisible needles against their skin, and convulsed and contorted into impossible positions. Physicians were called to examine the girls, but the...

Are you a good witch or a bad witch?

The Salem Witch Project

The received view is that the grammar of meaning claims is descriptive. It is our purpose in what follows to deny this consensus.. . . We offer, instead, a radically normative position on meaning claims. That is, we do not content ourselves with the relatively common view that part of the pattern characterized in ascribing meanings is the structure of socially accepted norms of a society. Rathe...

The African Witch

The African Witch, by MICHAEL GELFAND, Edinburgh and London, E. & S. Livingstone, 1967, pp. xvi, 227, illus., 30s. Od. Dr. Gelfand, Professor of Medicine in the University College of Rhodesia, is a prolific writer. This, his latest book, is awelcome addition to the literature of traditional magic, medicine and witchcraft of Africa, and it is recommended. I see it as a companion to Dr. Gelfand's...