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Erika (17789 KP) created a video about track Hysteria by Muse in Absolution by Muse in Music
Jun 12, 2019 (Updated Jun 13, 2019)
A list of books about witch hunts and other episodes of persecution, both fiction and history.
The Witches: Salem, 1692
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A historical account of how a group of adolescent girls caused a community in Salem to become...
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Andy K (10823 KP) created a video about Forgetting Sarah Marshall (2008) in Movies
Jan 8, 2018 (Updated Jan 8, 2018)
Michael Packner (32 KP) rated Hysteria by Def Leppard in Music
Jun 15, 2019
Everything. There is not one bad song on the album. This is a no skip album. (1 more)
Higlights include Women, Hysteria, and Love Bites.
Possibly one of the greatest albums ever created, Hysteria starts strong and finishes strong. When the first song hits, you know immediately you are about to go on a special trip. My favorite track is indeed the first track, "Women", but "Love Bites" and "Hysteria" come really close. There is not a single bad track to be found and the album is awarded the legendary No Skip status. Absolute perfection.
Suswatibasu (1702 KP) rated Belief: The Possession of Janet Moses (2015) in Movies
Oct 25, 2017 (Updated Oct 25, 2017)
How mass hysteria and inverted cultural beliefs become fatal
Once more, Netflix has showcased another harrowing documentary, this time set in New Zealand.
In the heart of Maori culture, lies the belief of Makatu, a curse or demon, that can allegedly be 'exorcised'. A poor young mother, Janet Moses, who either had mental health issues or was seemingly depressed, was confronted by her large family attempting to help her. Unfortunately their misguided deeply held beliefs included holding her down and plying water into her for days on end in a bid to rid her of a demon. And while they believed they they were assisting her, she eventually died after five days.
And of course a court case ensued about culpability. A truly terrible instance of dogmatic beliefs, cabin fever, and hysteria.
In the heart of Maori culture, lies the belief of Makatu, a curse or demon, that can allegedly be 'exorcised'. A poor young mother, Janet Moses, who either had mental health issues or was seemingly depressed, was confronted by her large family attempting to help her. Unfortunately their misguided deeply held beliefs included holding her down and plying water into her for days on end in a bid to rid her of a demon. And while they believed they they were assisting her, she eventually died after five days.
And of course a court case ensued about culpability. A truly terrible instance of dogmatic beliefs, cabin fever, and hysteria.
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David McK (3485 KP) rated 2012 (2009) in Movies
Apr 6, 2021
2009.
That's now 12 years ago, and 3 years before the setting of this big-budget disaster movie.
2012 is also when the Aztec calendar 'ended', leading to lots of conspiracy theories and some hysteria around the time that the world would end.
Which is what this movie is about: cue lots of earthquakes, volcanoes, tsunamis and the obligatory family-reconnecting that is de rigeur for this type of movie!
That's now 12 years ago, and 3 years before the setting of this big-budget disaster movie.
2012 is also when the Aztec calendar 'ended', leading to lots of conspiracy theories and some hysteria around the time that the world would end.
Which is what this movie is about: cue lots of earthquakes, volcanoes, tsunamis and the obligatory family-reconnecting that is de rigeur for this type of movie!
Suswatibasu (1702 KP) rated The Crucible in Books
Oct 10, 2017 (Updated Oct 11, 2017)
Exceptional drama exploring paranoia and hysteria
I remember having to study this book in drama during my school days, which made me become fascinated with the Salem Witch trials and its parallel politics. It is a dramatised and partially fictionalised story of the trials that took place in the Massachusetts Bay Colony during 1692/93.
The play explores paranoia, the power of superstition and mass hysteria. It shows the dangers of using a scapegoat to fix problems in society. Classed as one of the great American plays along with the likes of Long Day’s Journey Into Night, Miller wrote the play as an allegory for McCarthyism, when the US government ostracised people for being communists.
Many prominent people became victims of the Red Scare, Arthur Miller was one of many people who came to the attention of the House Un-American Activities Committee. In his play The Crucible Miller drew comparisons with the Red Scare and the witch trials of 1692 in Salem, Massachusetts.
Truly an awe-inspiring and essential read.
The play explores paranoia, the power of superstition and mass hysteria. It shows the dangers of using a scapegoat to fix problems in society. Classed as one of the great American plays along with the likes of Long Day’s Journey Into Night, Miller wrote the play as an allegory for McCarthyism, when the US government ostracised people for being communists.
Many prominent people became victims of the Red Scare, Arthur Miller was one of many people who came to the attention of the House Un-American Activities Committee. In his play The Crucible Miller drew comparisons with the Red Scare and the witch trials of 1692 in Salem, Massachusetts.
Truly an awe-inspiring and essential read.
Eilidh G Clark (177 KP) rated The Female Malady: Women, Madness and English Culture 1830-1980 in Books
Jul 2, 2019
Interesting text book
This is a heavy but interesting read. I have actually studied it to death for an essay on hysteria. If any ladies have a secret desire that they might have liked to have lived in the Victorian period, this book might change your mind. Women were treated disgracefully. I think had I been around in the late Victorian period I would have been institutionalised and certifiably mad. Overall, good read for it's purpose but not for relaxation.
