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Witching Tree, The (1996 Video)

Producer

Joanna Head

Subject

Anthropology

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 50 min., 1997 sale: £99.00 (+VAT +p&p)

In a country where there is still widespsread belief in witchcraft, to be accused and found guilty of being a witch in South Africa is a crime which carries the death benalty, by burning. After the death of...

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Producing Macbeth. Episode 4: Night’s Black Agents (1958 Television)

aka: Night’s Black Agents

Series

For Schools

Director

Roger Jenkins

Schools television series in nine-parts on Macbeth presented by John Lord. The series examines the murder of Duncan. Various aspects of the structure and characters of the play are discussed with some scenes...

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Nanny accused of witchcraft released (1983)

Genre

News report

Report on the release of Scottish nanny Carole Compton in Italy after being accused of witchcraft. Female reporter not identified.

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Short story (1988)

aka: Casting the runes [Part 1 and 2]

M. R. James classic story has been adapted by Stephen Mulrine who has written fifty hours of radio drama, including serials for both ILR and the BBC. Set at Christmas time in the early 1900’s it tells an...

ILR Sharing Radio Online Audio

Adventures in Cult Cinema: Richard Stanley's Dust Devil (1992)

Date

16 Sep 2013, 09:02

Author

bufvclinda

Post Type

Post

Following on from Ieuan Franklin's excellent blog which discussed such mind-bendingly psychedelic Films on Four as Born of Fire (Jamil Dehlavi, 1987), Shadey (Phillip Saville, 1987) and Silent Scream (David...

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Mary Bateman, the Yorkshire Witch (1988)

Genre

Drama

Dramatisation of the life of Mary Bateman who was an English criminal with self-proclaimed supernatural powers, known as the Yorkshire Witch, who was tried and executed for witchcraft during the early 19th...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Carole Compton trial in Italy (1982)

Genre

Interview; News report

Report on the start of the trial in Livorno, Italy, of Carole Compton, a Scottish nanny accused of arson and witchcraft. Includes interview with Compton’s ex-lawyer, Lawrence Nesbitt. Female reporter not...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Häxan/Witchcraft Through the Ages (2007)

Director

Benjamin Christensen; William Burroughs

Subject

Film studies; History; Psychology; Religious studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 104 minutes), £19.99

A darkly humorous, genre-defying silent ‘documentary’, in which witchcraft through the ages is presented in a series of dramatic vignettes that explore the contention that witches of the middle ages...

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Witchcraft Among the Azande (1982 Video)

aka: Azande, The

Director

André Singer

Subject

Anthropology

Distribution

Sale Hire, VHS (PAL, 52 minutes), £8.00 (hire), £50.00 (sale)

A study of the Azande of the Sudan who today live a life of obscurity, dominated by magic, oracles and spells. Discusses how their beliefs influence their reactions to such events as an illness, a spoiled...

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Life Cycle: A Story of AIDS in Malawi (2003)

Director

Doug Karr; Sierra Bellows

Subject

Social Studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 NTSC, 57 minutes), $219.00 [Institutional rate]

This film explores the themes of sex, witchcraft, poverty, death and religion in relation to AIDS. Shot over eight months and encompassing both the depth and breadth of a culture under siege, LIFE CYCLES...

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