Posted on 11/01/2017 11:06:04 AM PDT by Behind Liberal Lines
On Halloween evening, dozens gathered in Kroch library for the opening of “The World Bewitch’d,” an exhibition — on display through August 2018 — exploring the history of witchcraft.
The exhibit features a variety of rare manuscripts, photographs and historical movie posters and is known to be the largest witchcraft collection in North America. The exhibit holds over 3,000 objects on superstition and witchcraft in Europe, mostly acquired in the 1880s but spanning multiple centuries of artifacts since the 1400s, according to the Cornell University Library website....
Students like Ellen Haines ’18 attended the event on their own. Hains said her visit to the exhibit “just fit wonderfully with the Halloween spirit.” For others, attending the event was class-related. Emma Stillings ’18 said her history professor for her Salem Witch Trials class recommended that she go.
Both said that they found the misogyny reflected in some of the material to be particularly interesting.
“I feel like I’m just so used to women getting the short end of the stick that it’s like, ‘Oh cool, didn’t believe us then, didn’t believe us now,” Stillings said.
Haines said she really liked a quote displayed on the wall: “More women than men are witches because women are more curious.” She said she found it funny and true.
(Excerpt) Read more at cornellsun.com ...
City of Evil bump.
Witch = Fat, lonely Feminist
And that’s just Hillary.
Witchcraft is tantamount to a religion.
This is a church and state issue.
Where’s the ACLU?
Paid for by mommy and daddy or the rest of us through a Pell Grant.
Describes a former phb-ette perfectly.
BREAKING NEWS
Halloween Accident ReportedIthaca, NY authorities reported an accident involving former presidential candidate Hillary Clinton.
Officials stated that the former Secretary of State was on her way to Cornell University for the opening of “The World Bewitch’d” exhibition when she took a wrong turn and ran into a utility pole.
First responders report that she suffered no serious injury from the encounter, primarily because she was totally inebriated at the time of the accident.
“More women than men are witches because women are more curious.”
If I substituted “delusional” for curious??
Satan's capital of the world ... Ithaca ...
Forgot lesbian. The witch in The Crucible had the girls dancing naked in the woods.
Hillary cleaned out her closets?
That picture represents a huge part of why America is as screwed up as it is these days.
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Right. What would the corollary be if we asked why more men are scientists or inventors than women?
But the premise of witchcraft is that one can summon supernatural forces to do things in the natural world.
Okay, can one of these self-described witches lift a pencil an inch off a table without touching it?
How about: light a candle from 10 feet away?
How about: summon a wild (untrained) bird to land on her hand?
Hmmm... didn't think so.
What no warlocks? This could be a Title IX issue!
Yes, Cornell never disappoints.
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