Dissertations / Theses: 'Witch'

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Gagnon, Heather Elizabeth. "Scandalous Beginnings: Witch Trials to Witch City." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 1997. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/36535.

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On June 10, 1692, Bridget Bishop was hung as a witch in the community of Salem Village of the Massachusetts colony. Bishop was the first of twenty that died, all of whom professed their innocence. By the end of the madness, more than two hundred persons stood accused of witchcraft. They attempted to prove their innocence or they falsely admitted guilt in order to save their own lives. Citizens did not discuss the episode for many years after the trials were ended. The whole episode was an embarrassing blemish on the history of the state, and there was little atonement for the unjust hangings of those who had proclaimed their innocence. Three hundred years later, Salem, Massachusetts is very different. The image of the witch on a broomstick has been commercialized, and the city has become known as the "Witch City." The city makes over $25 million a year in tourism and is one of the largest tourist attractions in all of New England. This change raises some very important questions, such as how did this change occur? Why did it occur? Is Salem unique? How did perceptions change over time, and why? This thesis attempts to answer these questions by examining a variety of sources. This thesis strives to explain how a tiny New England town that experienced the tragic phenomenon of the witch trials and hangings, evolved into the present-day Witch City.
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Souza, Felipe Antônio de. "Don't mess with a witch." reponame:Repositório Institucional da UFSC, 2016. https://repositorio.ufsc.br/xmlui/handle/123456789/167700.

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Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Centro de Comunicação e Expressão, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Inglês: Estudos Linguísticos e Literários, Florianópolis, 2016.
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Abstract : Considering the increasing media interest and the creation of trends in relation to the theme of witches, the present study aims at analyzing representations of witches in recent media. For that, the research analyses an episode from the hit TV series American Horror Story: Coven (2013), the video game Bayonetta (2009) and fashion advertisements from the alternative clothing brand Kill Star. Grounded on a critical discourse analysis perspective, the study investigates the context of situation, forms of nomination of social actors (van Leeuwen, 2008), power relations in discourse with the aim of transitivity system (Halliday, 1985), and power relations in visuals, with the support of the grammar of visual design (Kress and van Leeuwen, 2006) as well as gender and issues of subcultures. Results suggest that the new image of the witch sets a break from ancient representations and no longer carries social stigmatization; on the contrary, it implies power and free will, since the power of witches does not rely only on magical skills. However, the use of discursive frameworks also demonstrate that these representations, despite being constructed as powerful and independent, still perpetuate some gendered notions in discourse.

Considerando o crescente interesse da mídia e a criação de várias tendências com relação ao tema de bruxas, o presente estudo visa analisar representações de bruxas na mídia recentemente. Para isso, a pesquisa analisa um episódio da nomeada série de TV American Horror Story: Coven (2013), o jogo Bayonetta (2009) e anúncios de moda da marca de roupas alternativa Kill Star. Fundamentado na perspectiva da análise crítica do discurso, o estudo investiga o contexto da situação, formas de nomeações de atores sociais (van Leeuwen, 2008), relações de poder no discurso com o uso do sistema de transitividade de Halliday (1985), relações de poder nas imagens, com o suporte da gramática visual bem como questões de gênero e subculturas. Os resultados sugerem que a nova imagem da bruxa representa uma quebra comparando com representações antigas e não mais carrega estigmatização social; ao contrário, implica poder e vontade própria, uma vez que os poderes das bruxas não se limitam mais apenas à habilidades mágicas. No entanto, o uso de estruturas discursivas também demonstram que apesar de tais representações serem construídas como poderosas e independentes, ainda perpetuam noções engendradas no discurso.

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Pakiam, Barbro. "Dining with Margaret Drabble's The Witch of Exmoor." Thesis, Linköpings universitet, Institutionen för språk och kultur, 1999. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-88789.

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This essay aims to demonstrate that Margaret Drabble, inspired by her literary knowledge of Shakespeare and Woolf, has constructed her novel The Witch of Exmoor on the two famous literary meals in Timon of Athens and To the Lighthouse. Parallels will be illuminated in the light of intertextuality, along with the symbolic significance of the meal, where this image is linked to Drabble's conception of social and individual order/disorder, but also used as an opening out to a higher realm. The first chapter will deal with the dinner scene in To the Lighthouse, and its relevance for the intertextual meal in The Witch of Exmoor. Structural influences from Woolf will also be discussed. In the second chapter the feast in Timon of Athens will be treated in the same way. Finally the third chapter will delve a little deeper into the meaning of Drabble's symbolism, focusing on a passage entitled Envoi in one version of The Witch of Exmoor. Questions to be asked are: What does the author wish to illustrate with her symbols? In which sense does the use of intertextual meals enhance the symbol/metaphor? Is the message meant to be clear to the reader? If not, what's to be won by obscurity?

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Young, Penelope M. "Witch images in Australian children's literature." University of Southern Queensland, Faculty of Education, 2001. http://eprints.usq.edu.au/archive/00001527/.

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In this dissertation it is argued that the European witch trials that took place between 1450 and 1700 have resulted in a legacy of stereotypical themes in Australian children's literature. Those accused of witchcraft were almost always women who were old, without protection, and physically ugly. They were accused of consorting with the devil, making harmful spells, flying through the night on a magic staff and exhibiting malevolent intent towards others. An analysis of this period forms the contextual framework for identifying themes that appear in contemporary Australian children's literature. A survey of twenty-three books, identified as stories about witches, was conducted to ascertain whether the stereotypical witch from the European witch-hunts continues to be characterised in Australian children's literature. The findings suggest that the witch figure in Australian children's literature mirrors the historical evidence from the European witch trials, but has evolved into a more powerful and proactive character than that identified in the historical literature. The characterisation of the witch in the books for older readers is powerful and evil, compared to the witch as a trivial and diminished figure in the books for younger readers. Gender is also a major influence in the characterisation of the witch, with all readers exposed to themes that may influence their expectations regarding the behaviour and role of women. The representation of the witch in the books reinforces the misogyny of the witchcraft era, and weaves patterns of meaning in the texts that construct undesirable female images. Readers of all ages can link these images to the social world beyond the text.

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Holmqvist, Kalle. "Nordingrå, maj 1675 : en ångermanländsk socken i centrum för trolldomsprocesserna." Thesis, Gotland University, Department of History, 2010. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hgo:diva-343.

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In May 1675, the local court in the northern Swedish parish of Nordingrå, which had approximately 1,000 inhabitants, held a preliminary investigation on 113 persons accused of witch-craft and superstition. For the majority of the 113, the main accusation was to have travelled to Blåkulla, a place where witches according to Swedish folklore participated in satanic festivities and rites led by the Devil himself. The preliminary investigation was held at the request of The Royal Witch-craft Commission. Nordingrå belonged to the province of Ångermanland, one of the Swedish provinces with the highest number of witch trials in the 1670s. The trials in Nordingrå have, more or less never been examined before, mainly due to the fact that no sentences or penalties were ever imposed.

The purpose of this paper is to examine social relations and social conflicts in Nordingrå with the records from the witch trial 1675 as the primary source. The theoretical background for the paper is Emmanuel Le Roy Laduries study of the Occitan village of Montaillou along with Hannah Arendts theory on the banality of evil.

One of the paper´s main conclusion is that the relations of power can be traced in the trials, but that they, on the other hand, become less significant the further the trials go. One reasonable interpretation of this fact is that the trials in Nordingrå reflects the tendence of juridical centralization in the 17th century.

The social conflicts in the parish are more obvious in the accusations of superstitions than in the accusations of travels to Blåkulla. For example the conclusion can be drawn that at least a number of inhabitants in Nordingrå had a religion on their own, which did not always match the orthodoxy of the Protestant church. At the same time the accusations of superstition do not play a particularly important role in the trials. The main impression of the trials is, on the contrary, that they do not follow a given pattern regarding who can be put on trial, except for the fact that most of the trialed were women. Against the accused, a number of at least 173 witnesses appeared, most of them children and young people under the age of 24. The witnesses in general did not only tell the court which crimes the accused witches had committed, but also which crimes they had committed themselves.

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Konyar, Grace Elizabeth. "Empowering Popularity: The Fuel Behind a Witch-Hunt." Ohio University Honors Tutorial College / OhioLINK, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ouhonors1490710757496863.

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Bardell, Kirsteen Macpherson. "Death by 'divelishe demonstracion' : witchcraft beliefs, gender and popular religion in the early modern Midlands and north of England." Thesis, Nottingham Trent University, 1999. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.314233.

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Durrant, Jonathan Bryan. "Witchcraft, gender and society in the early modern Prince-Bishopric of EichstaÌˆtt." Thesis, Royal Holloway, University of London, 2002. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.269755.

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Elsley, Susan Jennifer. "Images of the witch in nineteenth-century culture." Thesis, University of Chester, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10034/253452.

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This thesis examines the witch imagery used during the nineteenth century in children’s literature, realist and gothic fiction, poetry and art, and by practitioners and critics of mesmerism, spiritualism and alternative spirituality. The thesis is based on close readings of nineteenth-century texts and detailed analysis of artwork, but also takes a long view of nineteenth-century witch imagery in relation to that of preceding and succeeding periods. I explore the means by which the image of the witch was introduced as an overt or covert figure into the work of nineteenth-century writers and artists during a period when the majority of literate people no longer believed in the existence of witchcraft; and I investigate the relationship between the metaphorical witch and the areas of social dissonance which she is used to symbolise. I demonstrate that the diversity of nineteenth-century witch imagery is very wide, but that there is a tendency for positive images to increase as the century progresses. Thereby the limited iconography of malevolent witches and powerless victims of witch-hunts, promulgated by seventeenth-century witch-hunters and eighteenth-century rationalist philosophers respectively, were joined by wise-women, fairy godmothers, sorceresses, and mythical immortals, all of whom were defined, directly or indirectly, as witches. Nonetheless I also reveal that every image of the witch I examine has a dark shadow, despite or because of the empathy between witch and creator which is evident in many of the works I have studied. In the Introduction I acknowledge the validity of theories put forward by historians regarding the influence of societal changes on the decline of witchcraft belief, but I argue that those changes also created the need for metaphorical witchery to address the anxieties created by those changes. I contend that the complexity of social change occurring during and prior to the nineteenth century resulted in an increase in the diversification of witch imagery. I argue that the use of diverse images in various cultural forms was facilitated by the growth of liberal individualism which allowed each writer or artist to articulate specific concerns through discrete images of the witch which were no longer coloured solely by the dictates of superstition or rationalism. I look at the peculiar ability of the witch as a symbolic outcast from society to view that society from an external perspective and to use the voice of the exile to say the unsayable. I also use definitions garnered from a wide spectrum of sources from cultural history to folklore and neo-paganism to justify my broad definition of the word ‘witch’. In Chapter One I explore children’s literature, on the assumption that images absorbed during childhood would influence both the conscious and unconscious witch imagery produced by the adult imagination. I find the templates for familiar imagery in collections of folklore and, primarily, in translations of ‘traditional’ fairy tales sanitised for the nursery by collectors such as Perrault and the Brothers Grimm. I then examine fantasies created for Victorian children by authors such as Mary de Morgan, William Makepeace Thackeray, George MacDonald and Charles Kingsley, where the image of witch and fairy godmother is conflated in fiction which elevates the didactic fairy tale to a level which in some cases is imbued with a neo-platonic religiosity, thereby transforming the witch into a powerful portal to the divine. In contrast the canonical novelists whose work I examine in Chapter Two generally project witch imagery obliquely onto foolish, misguided, doomed or defiant women whose witchery is both allusionary and illusionary. I begin with the work of Sir Walter Scott whose bad or sad witches touch his novels with the supernatural while he denies their magic. Scott’s witch imagery, like that of Perrault and Grimm, is reflected in the witches who represent women’s exclusion from autonomy, education and/or the literary establishment in the works of Charlotte and Emily Brontë, Elizabeth Gaskell and George Eliot. Traditional fairy-tale imagery is particularly evident in Charles Dickens’ use of the witch to represent negative aspects in the development of society or the individual. In contrast Scott’s impulse to distance himself from the pre-urban world represented by his witches contrasts with Thomas Hardy’s mourning of the female earth spirits of Wessex, thereby linking fluctuating and evolving images of nature with images of the nineteenth-century witch. In Chapter Three I explore poetry and art through Romantic verse, Tennyson’s Camelot, Rossetti and Burne-Jones’ Pre-Raphaelite classicism, Rosamund Marriot Watson and Mary Coleridge’s shape-shifting, mirrored women, and Yeats’ Celtic Twilight: in doing so I find representations of the witch as the destructive seductress, the muse, the dark ‘other’ of the suppressed poet, the symbol of spellbinding amoral nature, and the embodiment of the Celtic soul. In the final chapter witch imagery is attached to actual practitioners of so-called ‘New Witchcraft’, yet they also become part of a story which seeks to equate neo/quasi science with the supernatural. I demonstrate a gender realignment of occult power as the submissive mesmerist’s tool evolves into the powerful mother/priestess. I note the interconnectedness of fiction and fact via the novels of authors such as Wilkie Collins and Edward Bulwer-Lytton; and identify the role of the campaigning godmother figure as a precursor of the radical feminist Wiccan. I believe that my thesis offers a uniquely comprehensive view of the use of metaphorical witch imagery in the nineteenth century.

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Batsch, M. N. T. "Freud : memory and the metapsychological witch." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 2015. http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/1468437/.

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In this study, I explore the connections between Freud’s metapsychology and the practice of psychoanalysis. Until his very last papers, Freud continued to assert that the specificity of the genuine psychoanalytic cure was the research of infantile memory. In 1937 he wrote: “What we are in search of is a picture of the patient’s forgotten years that shall be alike trustworthy and in all essential respects complete” (Freud, 1937b, p.258). In order to perceive how this picture of a patient’s forgotten years is to be found not in the discovery of an archive-memory but through the construction of an infantile mode of thinking, it is necessary to go back to a theory of memory that Freud elaborated during the first twenty years of his metapsychological work. Reminiscences are not faithful representations of the past but the outcome of a conflict between conscious and unconscious ideas. In the same way, memory is not an apparatus that registers the past but a system that inscribes contingent scenes of existence within a psychical destiny. Freud researched this psychical destiny through the description of an unconscious mode of thinking and through the invention of a new form of writing: a metapsychological writing. I propose to read the construction of a metapsychology as a grid on which one can write unconscious ideas. My focus throughout this work is to understand the functioning of the metapsychological grid and to answer the question of what it reveals in the clinical encounter. I discovered that the answer to this question could be located in Freud’s clinical paper A Child is Being Beaten (1919) and it involved the construction of a masochistic phantasy. A Child is Being Beaten stands, therefore, outside the timescale of this thesis, as an icon that captures the discursive argument of the whole.

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Weber, Katherine Mary. "Are You a Good Witch or a Bad Witch? The Importance of Object Relations in Modern Assessment." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2019. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1538686/.

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The Social Cognition and Object Relations Scale—Global (SCORS-G) is a relatively new scoring system for the Thematic Apperception Test (TAT) that provides information about an individual's functioning in a variety of domains, including intrapsychic and interpersonal. Participants in this archival study had been administered a variety of measures as part of a routine clinical assessment, including the TAT, Rorschach, Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory-2, and the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale. Selected TAT stories were rescored using current SCORS-G scoring criteria. This dissertation evaluated the factor structure of the SCORS-G in an outpatient sample with a principal component analysis (PCA), finding support for a two-component solution. The SCORS-G was then compared to well-established measures of personality functioning, social cognition, and object relations using correlational analyses, with mixed results. Lastly, support was found for using the SCORS-G as a tool for discriminating individuals with a history of violent or problematic relationships from those without such a history. Implications for card selection based on card pull and the impact of bland protocols were explored.

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Paule, Maxwell Teitel. "Canidia: A Literary Analysis of Horace's Witch." The Ohio State University, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1343685076.

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Huck, Jennifer E. "Poisoned Poppies: Popular Images of the Witch in the United States." Connect to this document online, 2005. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=miami1114021857.

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Thesis (M.A.)--Miami University, Dept. of History, 2005.
Title from first page of PDF document. Document formatted into pages; contains [7], 53 p. : ill. Includes bibliographical references (p. 49-53).

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Matthews, Michelle M. "MAGICIAN OR WITCH?: CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE'S DOCTOR FAUSTUS." Connect to this title online, 2006. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=bgsu1143482826.

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Clauser, Mark Douglas. "Lucan's Erictho and the Roman witch tradition /." The Ohio State University, 1993. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1487847761305957.

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Clauser, Mark D. "Lucan's Erictho and the Roman witch tradition." Connect to resource, 1993. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view.cgi?acc%5Fnum=osu1260198436.

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Hyman, Ryan. "The Hartford area witch-hunts : 1647-1683 /." View abstract, 2000. http://library.ctstateu.edu/ccsu%5Ftheses/1590.html.

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Thesis (M.A.)--Central Connecticut State University, 2000.
Thesis advisor: Katherine Hermes. " ... in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in History." Includes bibliographical references (leaves 80-89).

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Wilson, Eric. "The text and context of the Malleus Maleficarum (1487)." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 1991. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/251500.

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Brandenburg, Rachel Lynn. "Ceremonials: A Reclamation of the Witch Through Devised Ritual Theatre." Miami University / OhioLINK, 2019. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1556854180665756.

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Rabe, Jessica. "The behaviour, growth, and survival of witch flounder and yellowtail flounder larvae in relation to prey availability (Glyptocephalus cynoglossus, Pleuronectes ferrugineus)." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1999. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp03/MQ47471.pdf.

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Girard, Timothy J. "Premature witch hunt? The Amerasia case in context." Thesis, University of Ottawa (Canada), 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/26912.

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The Amerasia case concerned the theft of classified U.S. federal government documents by government officials and left-wing critics of U.S. foreign policy. The case did not result in serious criminal penalties and the failure of the prosecution has never been adequately explained. There is some superficial validity to the contention that the case was legally weak to begin with, but it is important to situate the Amerasia case in the context of the debate over the direction of U.S. foreign policy in the transition from World War II to the Cold War. Although conclusions on the subject at this point must remain tentative, there is persuasive evidence that the Truman administration ensured that the U.S. Justice Department did not prosecute the case vigorously because a committed prosecution of the Amerasia case had the potential to compromise or undermine U.S. foreign policy in the early months of the Truman presidency.

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Van, Zyl Smit E. "Contemporary witch : dramatic treatments of the Medea myth." Thesis, Stellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch, 1987. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/1440.

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Igwe, Leo [Verfasser], and Ulrich [Akademischer Betreuer] Berner. "The Witch is not a Witch : the Dynamics and Contestations of Witchcraft Accusations in Northern Ghana / Leo Igwe ; Betreuer: Ulrich Berner." Bayreuth : Universität Bayreuth, 2017. http://d-nb.info/1140784293/34.

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Bureau, Mathieu. "Modélisation hydro-géochimique du bassin supérieur de la Moselle." Thesis, Vandoeuvre-les-Nancy, INPL, 2010. http://www.theses.fr/2010INPL012N/document.

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Ce travail explore la possibilité de passer d'un couple de modèles développés pour de petits bassin versant, à un modèle capable de simuler un bassin de plus grande superficie (« upscaling »). Il étudie en parallèle l'adaptation du couple de modèles ASPECTS / WiTCh à deux petits bassins versants à la géologie contrastée et le comportement hydrochimique du bassin supérieur de la Moselle. Le premier volet de ce travail est l'étude du couple de modèle ASPECTS / WiTCh et des adaptations à y faire pour pouvoir l'utiliser sur des sites contrastés des Vosges. Le premier site est situé sur les grès, le deuxième sur la partie granitique du massif. Le modèle s'est révélé capable de reproduire les débits journaliers ainsi que les concentrations moyennes observées dans les ruisseaux sur les deux sites, sauf pour quelques éléments sur granite. On a pu montrer que les variations saisonnières d'acidité de la rivière étaient très dépendantes du cycle de l'azote dans le modèle. Le second volet est l'étude des variations saisonnières de la composition chimique et isotopique de l'eau de la Moselle à un pas de temps de 2 semaines. Les valeurs enregistrées le long de la rivière confirment qu'il s'agit d'un mélange entre deux pôles chimiques et montrent que ses variations saisonnières sont principalement liées au débit. On pourrait modéliser le bassin par un modèle à deux couches, l'une profonde correspondant à l'étiage, l'autre superficielle correspondant aux crues. Les analyses isotopiques permettent de préciser les contributions relatives de ces deux couches lors de la fonte des neiges, mais nécessiteraient des mesures très précises de l'eau de pluie pour être utilisées lors des crues
This work investigates the possibility of using a pair of numerical models scaled for small watersheds to model greater scale basins (upscaling). It deals with two complementary approaches: the adaptation of the ASPECTS / WiTCh model pair to two small watersheds displaying contrasted geology and the study of the global behavior of the upper Moselle river basin. The first part of this project is the study of the ASPECTS / WiTCh model pair behavior and the adaptations it needs to produce satisfying results for two contrasted watershed in the Vosges mountains. The first site is located on the sandstones part of the mountain while the other one is on the granitic part. The model proved capable of predicting the daily water flows as well as the average annual concentrations measured in the streams on both sites but for a few elements on the granitic one. Seasonal variation in stream water acidity has been shown to be heavily contingent on the nitrogen cycle model. The second part of this project studies seasonal variations in the chemical and isotopic composition in the Moselle river on a two-week basis. Samples collected along the river confirm that the water composition is the product of two chemical poles mixing in and indicate that seasonal variations are mainly due to changes in the water flow. The basin could be represented by a two-layer model, the lower one for the low water periods, the upper one for the floods. Isotopic analysis let us characterize the relative contribution of these two layers during snow-melt but more precise rainwater data are needed for these samples to be used with flood analysis

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Sparks, Amy M. "The white witch : Emily Dickinson and colonial American witchcraft /." View online, 1990. http://repository.eiu.edu/theses/docs/32211998880715.pdf.

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Price, David Wayne. "Cotton Mather's cosmology and the 1692 Salem witch trials." Thesis, London Metropolitan University, 2001. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.369396.

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Roux, Catharina. "Obedient daughter, silenced witch: the hysteric in Freudian psychoanalysis." Thesis, Rhodes University, 1989. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1004637.

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This study explores the theoretical consequences of Freud's renunciation of the seduction theory. The dissertation defends the thesis that the seduction theory was shaped as much by Freud's adherence to the nomonological model as by the empirical evidence of child sexual abuse. A renunciation of the seduction theory was inevitable, not because the accounts of the daughters were lies, but because the methodology was inappropriate. The nomonological model obscured the emotional structure of the nuclear family in which the structure itself, through which sexuality emerged, directed the girl's entrance into womanhood and caused the woman's dis-ease. Freud's methodology forced him to isolate an event as cause of an illness and to attribute the event to an agent. The universal perversity of the Victorian father thus became the central theme around which an explanation of a female disease was built. When this theme became theoretically untenable, Freud renounced the seduction theory and, still using the nomonological model, built up the construct of the Oedipus complex in which the father was vindicated. In order to exonerate the father, the transactions through which the child's libido developed were represented as originating in inherent tendencies. As a result, the hierarchical nature of the interaction between parent and child was distorted, and this led to the formulation of the distinction between real events and fantasies as a basic premise on which the difference between the pleasure principle and the reality principle rests. This formulation gave rise to the sharp duality between fantasy and reality which eventually compelled him to separate psychic reality and social reality. The theoretical structure built on this duality could not but fuse hysteria, masochism and "normal" femininity into an explanation of the female state, and obscure the essential social relations between men and women which were structured in terms of dominance and submission. The thesis traces the journey from the perverted father as cause of a female disease, hysteria, to the theoretical conjunction of masochism and hysteria. It comes to the conclusion that Freud's model is unable to explain the self-mutilation of the hysteric; nor is it capable of explaining the hysteric's refusal to participate in the circuit of symbolic exchanges which constituted Victorian society. The study further attempts to understand hysteria in terms of the complex interlacing of fact and fantasy and tries to show that fantasy was rooted in the facts of Victorian culture.

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Berk, Anita. "Female bodies as text : disobedient representations of the witch." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/13895.

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Bibliography: leaf 40.
This paper is an exploration and explication of the ideas and theories that served to fire the journey of my thesis production, Hex, from conception through to performance. As a Masters student in Theatre-making with a leaning towards performance, my particular area of focus is the physical: female bodies as text. To delineate this further, I concentrate on disobedient representations of the witch: what are these; what do they mean and effect in our world and within women themselves? Since as Theatre-maker I variously switched mode from director (in the initial conceptual stages) to designer, writer and actor within the process, this written explication will similarly switch perspective as I weave through the issues at hand in the creation of Hex. I begin the paper with an introduction to the figure of the witch. A selection of examples of stage and screen portrayals of witches is given. I then describe the salient features of the witch's journey as represented from past to present, in order to shed light on the choice of witch characters which eventually formed the collage of Hex. This is followed by an exploration of the goddess I witch dichotomy, with specific reference to the presence or absence of her physical form as theatrically manifested in Hex. I delineate, define and exemplify the concepts of obedience and disobedience in witch representations. This leads to an in-depth look at the physiognomic I gestural language of the witch's body in performance, noting in particular its relation to a male gaze. The third and final section of the paper centres on the marginalisation of various witch figures. This serves to explicate the presence and meaning of certain key figures that appeared in various forms in Hex, such as the absent crone-wise-woman, and the happy childless mother. I conclude with a statement of my personal position in relation to the topic that inspired the explorative journey of Hex. The purpose of Hex was to imaginatively crack open the realm of the witch for the audience. For it is out of such pinholes that truth has a tendency to loom out, in her infinite number of gorgeous and appalling forms that, together, dance the jig of Life.

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Blacklock, Naomi. "Conjuring alterity: Refiguring the witch and the female scream in contemporary art." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2019. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/132362/1/Naomi_Blacklock_Thesis.pdf.

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This practice-led research project addresses the political and creative significance of the witch archetype as an emancipatory symbol for alterity in contemporary art. Framed within an intersectional feminist methodology, it explores cultural mythologies, personal histories, political activism, gender and sexual rebellion. Using embodied performance it explores the significance of disruptive feminist voices and reimagines intersectional identities in contemporary art practice through the figure of the 'witch' as Other.

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LIU, XINJIE. "Moral Values in The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe." Thesis, Högskolan Kristianstad, 2010. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hkr:diva-7740.

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Li, Xiaobin. "Christian Messages in The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe." Thesis, Högskolan Kristianstad, 2010. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hkr:diva-7766.

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Gadway, Nicole C. "The view from Rampion's Tower the story of a witch /." Diss., Online access via UMI:, 2005.

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Adegbie, Peter. "The prophet, the pirate and the witch : a narrative poem." Thesis, University of Newcastle Upon Tyne, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10443/1180.

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This thesis comprises a narrative poem and a commentary that traces its inspiration. The struggle for the control of the Niger Delta has fascinated historians, anthropologists, journalists and Nigerian writers, poets and memoirists; The Prophet, The Pirate and The Witch is a unique narrative contribution to this intriguing subject at a time when the region has become an ongoing trouble spot and flashpoint of conflict between Christian, Islamic and African traditional cultures. The protagonist of the narrative, Isaiah Kosoko, becomes a prophet to escape the clutches of Falila Soares, the witch who loves him. Isaiah‘s best friend Segida Okokobioko marries Falila on the rebound but is forced to become a pirate/freedom fighter – fighting the state and oil conglomerates for causing pollution and unfair distribution of resources from oil wells. In the midst of the love triangle, land and people suffer. The critical commentary provides a context for the inspiration, crafting and interpretation of the poem. It explores my debt to the Bible, situating my narrative in relation to the similarly inspired poetic works of Christopher Okigbo of Nigeria and the Ghanaian-born Caribbean Kwame Dawes. It also examines Nigerian poets across four generations and demonstrates my indebtedness to the political and social agitation that has been a major aspect of their work. I am particularly interested in the tradition of poetic prophecy, exploring the figure of the poet–prophet as a commentator on, and an instrument of, social–economic–political–cultural change. The metaphors that might position some Nigerian poets as possible prophets, others as pirates and yet others as witches, have been sketched. The prophetic agitation for change as an intrinsic part of African orality and its influence on modern African writers has inspired this creative work, which uses a written mode to express an oral form, in a prose–poetic amalgam typical of biblical narratives.

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Stuever-Williford, Marley Katherine. "Hex Appeal: The Body of the Witch in Popular Culture." Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2021. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1610295587336417.

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DeLong, Anne M. "Medea and Medusa the archetype of the witch in literature /." Instructions for remote access. Click here to access this electronic resource. Access available to Kutztown University faculty, staff, and students only, 2001. http://www.kutztown.edu/library/services/remote_access.asp.

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Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 45-06, page: 2822. Typescript. Abstract precedes thesis as preliminary leaf. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 121-126).

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Easley, Patricia Thompson. "A Gobber Tooth, A Hairy Lip, A Squint Eye: Concepts of the Witch and the Body in Early Modern Europe." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2000. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc2646/.

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This thesis discusses early modern European perceptions of body and soul in association with the increasing stringency of civilized behaviour and state formation in an effort to provide motivation for the increased severity of the witch hunts of that time. Both secondary and primary sources have been used, in particular the contemporary demonologies by such authors as Bodin, and Kramer and Sprenger. The thesis is divided into five chapters, including an Introduction and Conclusion. The body of the thesis focuses on religious, scientific, and secular beliefs (Ch. 2), appearance and characteristics of witches (Ch. 3), and the activities and behaviours/actions of witches, (Ch. 4). This study concentrates on the similarities found across Europe, and, as the majority of witches persecuted were female, my thesis emphasizes women as victims of the witch hunts.

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Porterfield, Melissa Rynn. "Warning, Familiarity and Ridicule: Tracing the Theatrical Representation of the Witch in Early Modern England." Connect to this document online, 2005. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=miami1114108678.

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Shufelt, Catherine Armetta. ""Something wicked this way comes" constructing the witch in contemporary American popular culture /." Bowling Green, Ohio : Bowling Green State University, 2007. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=bgsu1194289705.

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Hughes, Paula. "The 1649-50 Scottish witch-hunt : with particular reference to the synod of Lothian and Tweeddale." Thesis, University of Strathclyde, 2008. http://oleg.lib.strath.ac.uk:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=21948.

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Between April 1649 and July 1650, over 500 people were accused of witchcraft in Scotland. This period represented one of the five "peaks" in witch-hunting in early modern Scotland identified by Christina Larner in her landmark work on the Scottish witch-hunts, Enemies of God (1983). To this date there has been no in depth study of the 1649-50 Scottish witch-hunt. This thesis offers an examination of the 1649-50 witch-hunt, considering the response of the central authorities to the outbreak of witch-hunting in the localities and the efforts to organise and control the witch-hunt. It also considers the actions of the local presbyteries and kirk sessions in the Synod of Lothian and Tweeddale in responding to community pressure for action on suspected witches. A unique approach has been adopted in considering the nature of Covenanting government and how it shaped the central response to the witch-hunt and the attempts to control the witch-hunt "from above". This thesis combines an examination of the volatile political situation in 1649-50 with an analysis of the complex social nature of witchcraft accusations. This thesis brings together the social and political history of the period in the context of explaining the 1649-50 witch-hunt, with particular regard to the synod of Lothian and Tweeddale.

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Viti, Francesca. "Phage display libraries for the isolation of antibodies witch target angiogenesis /." Zürich, 1999. http://e-collection.ethbib.ethz.ch/show?type=diss&nr=13488.

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Wyporska, Wanda. "Motive and motif : representations of the witch in early modern Poland." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2007. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.496667.

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Green, David Andrew. "The season of the witch : pagan magic in psycho-social context." Thesis, University of the West of England, Bristol, 2006. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.429688.

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Woodward, Marian. "Ditch the Witch: Julia Gillard and gender in Australian public discourse." Thesis, Department of Gender and Cultural Studies, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/9554.

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This thesis explores the interplay of gender, media, politics and women’s political representation in Australia. I examine how the Australian media has tended to reinforce rather than challenge dominant cultural aspects of Australian politics. Specifically, I analyse the ways in which Australian media has reflected women’s marginalisation in parliament. As Australia’s first female head of state, Julia Gillard’s term as Prime Minister provides a unique opportunity to analyse explicit and implicit ways in which gender has been used by media commentators in their assessment of her achievements. Analysis of the media’s treatment of Julia Gillard is used throughout the thesis, as her time in office exposed underlying conflicts surrounding gender and sexism in Australian media and public discourse. Media response to Gillard’s so-called Misogyny Speech is used as a particular case study. The thesis draws on a range of scholarship and commentary, including the works of Erving Goffman, Walter Lippmann, Pierre Bourdieu, Robin Lakoff, Anne Summers, Julia Baird, Pippa Norris and Marian Sawer, to construct a framework through which to examine the period of Gillard’s prime ministership. The last two writers (Norris and Sawer), inter alia, discuss the significance of women’s representation in parliament. In particular, the analysis highlights the significance of Anne Summers’ contribution to Australian feminism and draws on her Newcastle Speech (August 2012). I argue that Summers’ ideas and writing have been influential in shaping public discourse on Julia Gillard. I place the widely varied media responses to Gillard’s Misogyny Speech into a historical and comparative context to demonstrate the conflict within Australian society around issues of gender, feminism and female participation in public life.

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Waldron, David. "The sign of the witch : neo-paganism and the romantic episteme." Thesis, The Author [Mt. Helen, Vic.] :, 2002. http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/62410.

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"The central premise of this dissertation is that the process by which representations of witchcraft are formed within the neo-Pagan movement are indicative of the broader interrelationship of Romantic and Enlightenment themes in Western culture."
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Breuer, Heidi Jo. "Crafting the witch: Gendering magic in medieval and early modern England." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/280400.

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This project documents and analyzes the gendered transformation of magical figures occurring in Arthurian romance in England from the twelfth to the sixteenth centuries. In the earlier texts, magic is predominantly a masculine pursuit, garnering its user prestige and power, but in the later texts, magic becomes a primarily feminine activity, one that marks its user as wicked and heretical. The prophet becomes the wicked witch. This dissertation explores both the literary and the social motivations for this transformation. Chapter Two surveys representations of magic in the texts of four authors within the Arthurian canon: Geoffrey of Monmouth, Chretien de Troyes, Marie de France, and Layamon. These writers gender magic similarly (representing prophecy and certain forms of transformative magic as masculine and healing as feminine) and use gendered figures to mitigate the threat of masculine power posed by the feudal patriarchy present in England and France in the twelfth century. Chapter Three explores representations of two magical characters who appear in a group of fourteenth- and fifteenth-century romances associated with Gawain: the churlish knight and the loathly lady. The authors of these romances privilege gender conventions radically different from those in earlier models and conjure a figure neglected by the earlier writers, the wicked witch. In particular, representations of the witch as a wicked step-mother reflect the anxiety created by expanding space for women (especially mothers) in previously exclusively male arenas of English society. In Chapter Four, I follow the romance tradition into early modern England, studying the work of Malory, Spenser, and Shakespeare. For these authors, the wicked witch (alternately represented as temptress or crone) is connected specifically to maternity; the severe anxiety about maternity in these texts is representative of widespread concern about mothers and motherhood in sixteenth-century England. Chapter Five traces the legislative policy governing prosecution of witches in England and offers suggestions about the relationship between legal climates and literary representations of magic. Though prosecution of witchcraft is now extremely rare in the U.S., filmmakers still rely on medieval and Renaissance models to inform their representations of witches. Once she arrived, the witch never left.

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Hunt, Cole. "The Great European Witch Hunt in Elizabethan England and Jacobean Scotland." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/297652.

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The Great European Witch Hunt swept across Europe from the fifteenth through seventeenth centuries, but the nature of these witch hunts differed from country to country. These differences can be attributed to the fulfillment, or lack thereof, of the preconditions to the Great European Witch Hunt: the adoption of the inquisitorial judicial procedure, the use of torture, the movement of witchcraft trials to secular and local courts, a belief in maleficium facilitated by a pact with Satan, a belief that witches met in large groups to perform anti-human rituals at the sabbat and the belief in the witch’s ability to fly to such Satanic meetings. These preconditions were largely fulfilled on the Continent, while they were only partially fulfilled in England and in Scotland, and more-so in Scotland than in England. The result is that the Great European Witch Hunt took a much more extreme form on the European Continent than it did in England or Scotland, and it was more severe in Scotland than in England.

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Andersson, Lorraine. "Which witch is which? A feminist analysis of Terry Pratchett's Discworld witches." Thesis, Halmstad University, School of Humanities (HUM), 2006. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hh:diva-543.

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Terry Pratchett, writer of humorous, satirical fantasy, is very popular in Britain. His Discworld series, which encompasses over 30 novels, has witches as protagonists in one of the major sub-series, currently covering eight novels. His first “witch” novel, Equal Rites, in which he pits organised, misogynist wizards against disorganised witches, led him to being accused of feminist writing. This work investigates this claim by first outlining the development of the historical witch stereotype or discourse and how that relates to the modern, feminist views of witches. Then Pratchett’s treatment of his major witch characters is examined and analysed in terms of feminist and poststructuralist literary theory. It appears that, while giving the impression of supporting feminism and the feminist views of witches,

Pratchett’s witches actually reinforce the patriarchal view of women.

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Johnston, Hannah E. "New generation witches : the teenage witch as cultural icon and lived identity." Thesis, Anglia Ruskin University, 2004. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.413620.

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Barriere, Alexandre. "Mirth and matter understanding and staging of The Witch o f Edmonton." Master's thesis, Akademie múzických umění v Praze.Divadelní fakulta. Knihovna, 2012. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-155928.

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This thesis is based on the author?s experience of directing J. Ford, Th. Dekker, and W. Rowley?s play The Witch of Edmonton (1621) in Divadlo DISK in February 2012 as a final performance in his Directing Master Studies at the Theatre Faculty. What is at stake in reviving such a little-known play of the Jacobean era, and performing it in Czech Republic? Can a text written as a reaction to a precise event (a real witch trial) and built as a quasi-documentary depiction of the society of the time, within the aesthetic codes of the time, be relevant material for a lively performance today? This thesis argues that yes, and that The Witch of Edmonton can actually be the starting point of what can be ?political theatre? in a form not only belonging to a long tradition of committed entertainment (the play?s prologue promising us ?mirth and matter?), but especially relevant to today?s audiences and artistic stakes. The first part of the thesis is a detailed contextual analysis of the play, the historical period in which it was written, the conditions of performance of the time, the material it is based on and the way it was dramaturgically built as ?political?. The second part focuses on the author?s analytical attempts to extract the text from its historical context, in particular through comparative history and history of ideas and using the concepts of Brecht?s epic theatre, depicting also how this research served as a preparation for the concept of his performance, a concept that is then explicated in detail. The third and last part is a short account and reflection about the rehearsal process and its outcome from the director?s point of view, making a final statement on the achieved practical work.

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Macdonald, Stuart. "Threats to a godly society, the witch-hunt in Fife, Scotland, 1560-1710." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1998. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/tape17/PQDD_0009/NQ33310.pdf.

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