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On 25 August 1538 there was much discussion about witches and sorceresses who poisoned chicken eggs in the nests, or poisoned milk and butter. Doctor Luther said: "One should show no mercy to these [women]; I would burn them myself, for we read in the Law that the priests were the ones to begin the stoning of criminals." [13]
The Burning Times is the second film in the National Film Board of Canada's Women and Spirituality series, following Goddess Remembered (1989) and preceding Full Circle (1993). The opening and closing theme music, composed by Loreena McKennitt , was released as the track titled "Tango to Evora" on her 1991 album The Visit .
Night of the Eagle (U.S. title: Burn, Witch, Burn; also known as Conjure Wife [4]) is a 1962 British horror film directed by Sidney Hayers and starring Peter Wyngarde and Janet Blair. [4] Its plot follows an esteemed sociology professor who discovers that his professional achievements and successes are the result of his wife practicing witchcraft .
With the Catholic Church, there's always this sense that if you're silent, you're complicit." Cillian Murphy confers with director Tim Mielants on the set of "Small Things Like These."
[a] Of the 53 movies the Legion had placed on its condemned list by 1943, only Howard Hughes' The Outlaw was the product of a major U.S. studio and it would not receive a wide release until 1946. [ citation needed ] After The Moon is Blue (1953) and Baby Doll (1956) received C ratings, it was a decade before two more major Hollywood movies ...
For the most part, Blake says evil movie witches — the kind who use spells to cast evil curses on people — really don't exist. But she adds that doing magic spells of any kind requires ...
A witch hunt, or a witch purge, is a search for people who have been labeled witches or a search for evidence of witchcraft. Practicing evil spells or incantations was proscribed and punishable in early human civilizations in the Middle East. In medieval Europe, witch-hunts often arose in connection to charges of heresy from Christianity.
The bull recognized the existence of witches: Many persons of both sexes, unmindful of their own salvation and straying from the Catholic Faith, have abandoned themselves to devils, incubi and succubi, and by their incantations, spells, conjurations, and other accursed charms and crafts, enormities and horrid offences, have slain infants yet in the mother's womb, as also the offspring of ...