witchcraft
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A Medievalist’s Guide To Magic And Alchemy In A Discovery Of Witches
For a medievalist like myself, it doesn’t get much better than Deborah Harkness’s A Discovery of Witches. Both the internationally bestselling trilogy and the newly adapted TV show have many of the conventions of a kickass fantasy story. There’s a 1,500-year-old vampire, a powerful witch who can literally make it rain, and their prophesied love…
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Freeform’s Alternate-History Military Drama (With Witches) Sounds Totally Nuts
Freeform — the US network formerly known as ABC Family, but now with licence to be more racy than anything with the word “Family” in it — is developing a new drama that sounds completely nuts. Maybe in a good way? It involves witches, warfare and an alternate-history timeline — and its exec producers include…
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The Witch Review: Scary As Hell, Because It Feels So Damn Real
If you’ve heard anything about The Witch, it’s probably people saying that writer-director Robert Eggers’ feature debut is “the scariest movie of the year”. And The Witch is indeed full of horrors. But the scariest things in this movie don’t actually originate in the supernatural.