Which Witch is Which: How The Blair Witch Project Can Be Compared to Maura Murray’s Disappearance

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...

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...

Witch-hunt

Beginning two years ago, the US Dept of Health and Human Services began "special reviews" of all current research grants that involved harm reduction, sex and drugs, and continues its ban on funding of needle exchange. With Bush's second term, the campaign was extended to all US funded international programs that dealt with these issues and populations. And, most recently, the US has again unde...

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...

Are you a good witch or a bad witch?