Journal article
Getting it wrong: the problems with reinventing the past
- Abstract:
- This article is an examination of recent best-selling fictions and television adaptations which portray the history of witchcraft, often using outmoded historical theses, and often falsifying the known life histories of actual convicted witches. This article argues that these fictions, marked by problematically eugenicist ideas of magic, and in one case by a very uncomfortable appropriation of the Holocaust, are ultimately unhelpful to Pagans because they falsify history and deny the real needs of the contemporary Pagan communities.
- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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(Preview, Accepted manuscript, pdf, 502.3KB, Terms of use)
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- Publisher copy:
- 10.1558/pome.39116
Authors
- Publisher:
- Equinox Publishing
- Journal:
- Pomegranate: the International Journal of Pagan studies More from this journal
- Volume:
- 21
- Issue:
- 2
- Publication date:
- 2020-08-03
- Acceptance date:
- 2019-09-22
- DOI:
- EISSN:
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1743-1735
- ISSN:
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1528-0268
- Language:
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English
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- Pubs id:
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pubs:1061113
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uuid:54d9b723-4437-4709-b5af-3b064aaa8a52
- Local pid:
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pubs:1061113
- Source identifiers:
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1061113
- Deposit date:
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2019-10-07
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- Copyright holder:
- Purkiss
- Copyright date:
- 2020
- Rights statement:
- © Author(s) 2020
- Notes:
- This is the accepted manuscript version of the article. The final version is available online from Equinox Publishing at: https://doi.org/10.1558/pome.39116
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