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Witches In Film And Television

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Insert Surname1 Witches in Film and Television Institutional Affiliation Date 27th October 2018 Does the modern depiction of witches as heroic in films and television shows affect the number of teenagers practicing witchcraft? Thesis Statement Witches have been described as women who are known to practice evil magic. The idea of witches and witchcraft has been thought to be mythical, but it is in reality true. The only problem is that witches have been extremely misrepresented and depicted in ridiculous and unrealistic ways. Throughout history, different cultures have had witches with the definitions of witches being people who could do extraordinary things. Witches in different cultures were not always considered bad since some of them had abilities that included the mastery of herbs which were used to cure or have certain effects on people (Berger and Helen 115). In the Western culture, the idea of witches and witchcraft was mostly popularized by a German clergyman namely Malleus who called for the prosecution and killing of witches as early as 1487. He popularized the idea that witches were bad and they were responsible for most of the bad things happening to people. This led to many witch hunts and massacres of women and a few men accused of witchcraft which shaped the characteristics of witches being evil and ugly. Over the years this depiction had been adopted by early films and television shows, but changes have occurred in the Insert Surname2 modern portrayal of wit ...
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