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Book Synopsis Mrs. Wakeman vs. the Antichrist by : Robert Damon Schneck
Download or read book Mrs. Wakeman vs. the Antichrist written by Robert Damon Schneck and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2014-10-02 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: American history is more than just what you read in your high school textbooks. There's a wild and weird side to America's past, filled with strange creatures, bizarre happenings, and fantastical figures. Researcher and writer Robert Damon Schneck has spent more than a decade devoted to sleuthing out these forgotten weird, grotesque, and mysterious gems of American history, like: • The man who preached good health through blood-drinking. • The California family driven insane by Ouija board séances, and the national panic that they ignited • The West Virginia town named after its resident poltergeist, who was obsessed with cutting everything into crescent shapes. • The Antichrist-obsessed cult leader whose disciples became brutal murderers, all in the name of saving her (and the world). You’ll also learn about homemade guillotines, magical ape-men on Mt. St. Helens, the psychic who smuggled a crystal ball into the White House, and the origins of those baffling modern bogeys, evil clowns driving vans. These historically researched, scrupulously verified, and always shockingly true tales in this collection come from an America that lies beyond the skyscrapers, cornfields, and suburban strip malls where we make our homes—a place where monsters guard buried treasures, schoolgirls develop stigmata, and we never run out of strange things.
Book Synopsis The Witches of Wakeman by : Betsy Haynes
Download or read book The Witches of Wakeman written by Betsy Haynes and published by Skylark. This book was released on 1990 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beth Barry gives the audition of her life when she tries out for Wakeman Junior High's Halloween variety show, and she is devastated when Laura McCall, the snooty leader of the Fantastic Foursome is chosen to play the beautiful witch while Beth is cast as the warty old hag.
Book Synopsis Witch-Hunting in Seventeenth-Century New England by : David D. Hall
Download or read book Witch-Hunting in Seventeenth-Century New England written by David D. Hall and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2005-02-04 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This superb documentary collection illuminates the history of witchcraft and witch-hunting in seventeenth-century New England. The cases examined begin in 1638, extend to the Salem outbreak in 1692, and document for the first time the extensive Stamford-Fairfield, Connecticut, witch-hunt of 1692–1693. Here one encounters witch-hunts through the eyes of those who participated in them: the accusers, the victims, the judges. The original texts tell in vivid detail a multi-dimensional story that conveys not only the process of witch-hunting but also the complexity of culture and society in early America. The documents capture deep-rooted attitudes and expectations and reveal the tensions, anger, envy, and misfortune that underlay communal life and family relationships within New England’s small towns and villages. Primary sources include court depositions as well as excerpts from the diaries and letters of contemporaries. They cover trials for witchcraft, reports of diabolical possessions, suits of defamation, and reports of preternatural events. Each section is preceded by headnotes that describe the case and its background and refer the reader to important secondary interpretations. In his incisive introduction, David D. Hall addresses a wide range of important issues: witchcraft lore, antagonistic social relationships, the vulnerability of women, religious ideologies, popular and learned understandings of witchcraft and the devil, and the role of the legal system. This volume is an extraordinarily significant resource for the study of gender, village politics, religion, and popular culture in seventeenth-century New England.
Book Synopsis The Stephen H. Wakeman Collection of Books of Nineteenth Century American Writers by : Stephen H. Wakeman
Download or read book The Stephen H. Wakeman Collection of Books of Nineteenth Century American Writers written by Stephen H. Wakeman and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Wakeman's Handbook of Irish Antiquities by : William Frederick Wakeman
Download or read book Wakeman's Handbook of Irish Antiquities written by William Frederick Wakeman and published by Dublin : Hodges, Figgis. This book was released on 1903 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis From Pumpkin Time to Valentines by : Susan Ohanian
Download or read book From Pumpkin Time to Valentines written by Susan Ohanian and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 1994-08-15 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Keep students happily focused on learning during two of the most exciting holidays of the year for the elementary classroom-Halloween and Valentine's Day. Poems and excerpts are used as launching points for such projects as writing spooky tongue twisters or designing animal valentine cartoons. Reproducible language arts strategies teach word play, interviewing, letter writing, research skills, problem solving, and metaphorical language while encouraging divergent thinking. Grades 1-5.
Download or read book The Scapegoat written by Betsy Haynes and published by Skylark. This book was released on 1991 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Christie has never received a poor grade in her life--until she moves to London and winds up in Miss Finney's science class. Now Christie is getting Ds on her assignments and she can't figure out why. She decides the annual science competition is her only chance to prove herself to Miss Finney, but will her project be judged fairly as long as she's Miss Finney's scapegoat?
Book Synopsis Before Salem by : Richard S. Ross III
Download or read book Before Salem written by Richard S. Ross III and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2017-05-22 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Decades before the Salem Witch trials, 11 people were hanged as witches in the Connecticut River Valley. The advent of witch hunting in New England was directly influenced by the English Civil War and the witch trials in England led by Matthew Hopkins, who pioneered "techniques" for examining witches. This history examines the outbreak of witch hysteria in the Valley, focusing on accusations of demonic possession, apotropaic magic and the role of the clergy. Although the hysteria was eventually quelled by a progressive magistrate unwilling to try witches, accounts of the trials later influenced contemporary writers during the Salem witch hunts. The source of the document "Grounds for Examination of a Witch" is identified.
Book Synopsis The Witchcraft Delusion in Colonial Connecticut (1647-1697) by : John M. Taylor
Download or read book The Witchcraft Delusion in Colonial Connecticut (1647-1697) written by John M. Taylor and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2019-11-20 with total page 137 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Witchcraft Delusion in Colonial Connecticut (1647-1697) is a historical account by John M. Taylor that delves into the events surrounding the infamous witch trials that took place in Connecticut in the late 17th century. Through meticulous research and analysis, the book provides a detailed and comprehensive overview of the social, cultural, and political factors that contributed to the witch-hunting hysteria.
Book Synopsis The Witchcraft Delusion in Colonial Connecticut, 1647-1697 by : John Metcalf Taylor
Download or read book The Witchcraft Delusion in Colonial Connecticut, 1647-1697 written by John Metcalf Taylor and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A Complete Collection of State-trials, and Proceedings for High-treason, and Other Crimes and Misdemeanours: 1696-1709 by :
Download or read book A Complete Collection of State-trials, and Proceedings for High-treason, and Other Crimes and Misdemeanours: 1696-1709 written by and published by . This book was released on 1730 with total page 874 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Stephen H. Wakeman Collection of Books of Nineteenth Century American Writers, the Property of Mrs. Alice L. Wakeman by : Stephen H. Wakeman
Download or read book The Stephen H. Wakeman Collection of Books of Nineteenth Century American Writers, the Property of Mrs. Alice L. Wakeman written by Stephen H. Wakeman and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A Complete Collection Of State-Trials And Proceedings For High-Treason And Other Crimes and Misdemeanours by :
Download or read book A Complete Collection Of State-Trials And Proceedings For High-Treason And Other Crimes and Misdemeanours written by and published by . This book was released on 1730 with total page 872 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Season of the Witch by : Peter Bebergal
Download or read book Season of the Witch written by Peter Bebergal and published by TarcherPerigee. This book was released on 2015-10-13 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "From the hoodoo-inspired sounds of Elvis Presley to the Eastern odysseys of George Harrison, from the dark dalliances of Led Zeppelin to the Masonic imagery of today's hip-hop scene, the occult has long breathed life into rock and hip-hop--and, indeed, esoteric and supernatural traditions are a key ingredient behind the emergence and development of rock and roll ... [and in this book] writer and critic Peter Bebergal illuminates this web of influences"--Amazon.com.
Book Synopsis The Unhappy Medium by : Earl Wesley Fornell
Download or read book The Unhappy Medium written by Earl Wesley Fornell and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2014-11-06 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Here, Mr. Split-Foot, do as I do!” exclaimed the child, and the spirits obeyed her command. Thus, in 1848, thirteen-year-old Margaret Fox inaugurated the age of spiritualism. Those early spirit manifestations in a humble New York farmhouse were “but the beginning of a grand seance which for the next half century was to see persons returned from the dead walking upon the earth, mingling freely with mortal Americans. Ceremonies were performed which united in wedlock the living and the dead; ghostly schoolboys returned from the land of the spirits to revisit their old schoolhouses, upsetting the dignity of earthly classrooms . . . Drivers of owl horsecars . . . were intrigued by beautiful female spirits who rode their cars at night and promptly vanished if approached for a fare.” The colorful career of Margaret Fox, the most famous medium of the era and the “fountainhead” of the cult of spiritualism, attracted the attention of the most prominent public figures of the day. For P. T. Barnum, this phenomenon was another novelty to present to the American public. Horace Greeley took a personal interest in Margaret and her sister; he gave the movement extensive publicity. Lincoln often invited Margaret Fox and other mediums to the White House for seances, during which attempts were made to invoke the spirit of the Lincolns’ dead son. Members of Congress, judges, and intellectuals of the day were well acquainted with her and with the spiritualist movement. The course of this spirit invasion and the many and varied means by which men communicated with dwellers of the other world are the subjects of this volume. With Margaret Fox the spirits spoke by rapping on floor and furniture. With others they communicated by writing on slates, by touching with ghostly hands, by moving furniture (one medium was so popular that his furniture followed him about like a pack of dogs). Some spirits spoke directly through the mouths of entranced mediums. And some were so bold—or so talented—that they were able to materialize in the flesh before properly receptive groups of people—and happy indeed was the devotee who received a warm embrace from a lovely young spirit lady or a handsome ghostly gentleman during such a materialization. The spirits who thus displayed their interest in this mortal world soon came to have a considerable influence over whole segments of the American population. For some, spiritualism was a comforting means of maintaining contact with loved ones now departed. For others it was a religion, a blessed aid on the road to salvation. For still others it provided practical assistance with more earthly problems. Many found in it intriguing puzzles for scientific investigation. And for the whole country it provided a constant source of excitement, interest, and entertainment. Written in spritely prose and permeated with a grave humor, this account of nineteenth-century spiritualism will be equally satisfying to the casual reader interested in a good story, and to the scholar seeking serious social history.
Book Synopsis Wicked New Haven by : Michael J. Bielawa
Download or read book Wicked New Haven written by Michael J. Bielawa and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2013-07-02 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since its founding in 1638, the bustling Connecticut metropolis of New Haven has been plagued by all manner of sin and scandal. Stories of grave robbers and madmen in lighthouses are only a sliver of the Elm City's darker side. Author and historian Michael J. Bielawa chronicles the city's historic tales of pirates, mysteries and unusual deaths. Learn about Yale hauntings and Town and Gown riots, the Red Pirate William Delaney and the mysterious labor activist Frank Sokolowsky, whose strange murder in 1920 may have been at the hands of a jealous wife or part of a political plot. Discover the overzealous Wakemanites whose Christmas Eve exorcism led to the brutal murder of a man they believed possessed. Join Bielawa if you dare to peer into the shadowy corners of New Haven's wicked history.
Book Synopsis Reminiscences of John Greenleaf Whittier's Life at Oak Knoll, Danvers, Mass by : Abby Johnson Woodman
Download or read book Reminiscences of John Greenleaf Whittier's Life at Oak Knoll, Danvers, Mass written by Abby Johnson Woodman and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
