Course description for "Writing About Witches," offered to freshmen at Cornell University:

[Writing About Witches] will focus on the politics of witchcraft; we will consider why it is that writing about witches almost always springs from the fear, hatred, or persecution of a type of individual or group, and why writing about witchcraft is also writing about power: supernatural power, divine power, the power of the Church, the power of the mind.

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