Controversy Over Witches And Wicked Bodies

A new trade fair called Witches and Wretched Bodies is due to go on fetch at the British Museum this September - and it has incited an burning shiny finish from one reader of my blog. Mary Josefina Cade departed her shiny finish on my post about the British Museum's Viking Bare, saying: "Not too winning about the British Museum's new trade fair. Witchcraft is 'evil'?: http://www.britishmuseum.org/whats on/exhibitions/witches and wicked bodies.aspx"I had to go and seize a firm at the link for my part, the same as this was the crest I had heard about this trade fair in London. The manner of Witchcraft and Wretched Bodies on the British Museum Website says:"This trade fair strength check the picture of witches and witchcraft in art from the Rebirth to the end of the 19th century. It strength position prints and drawings by artists by D"urer, Goya, Delacroix, Burne-Jones and Dante Gabriel Rossetti, next to genre Greek vessels and Rebirth maiolica."Witchcraft concerns the practice of evil. Hard work to understand and interpret most likely dripping venom happenings - as well distribute duty for them and move up confessions as well as threatening acts of agony - seize had a place in sorority seeing that genre antiquity and Biblical get older. Men, women and children seize all been accused of sorcery. The magus, or expedient practitioner of natural numinous or occult 'sciences', has universally been male, but the bulk of introduce somebody to an area accused and punished for witchcraft, additional seeing that the Restructuring, seize been women. They are improbable as wicked hags with devil-worshipping followers. They unkind an inversion of a regular sorority and the natural world."I thanked Mary for pointing out that this trade fair is coming to the British Museum, but I would trusty agreed wording in the the manner that says "Witchcraft concerns the practice of evil" might be intended foul to modern witches. Perhaps that manner intensity seize been cut into phrased as: "In history, witchcraft was seen to nervousness the practice of evil."In the role of do you think? Do operate a shiny finish below.I as well don't know if this trade fair is the exceptionally as the one as well called Witches and Wretched Bodies that was on in Scotland manipulate go out with, which I missed. If so, I'm cheery it has come to London - and I'll trusty be visiting the trade fair to seize a firm for for my part."The picture shows Agostino Veneziano (fl. 1509-1536), The Witches' Disobey (The Lion's share). Drawing, c. 1520. and has been artificial from the image on the British Museum Website hand-me-down to motivation the trade fair."19/8/14 UPDATE: Examination complaints, the British Museum has jejune from its website the line: "Witchcraft concerns the practice of evil".For full present yourself of the trade fair, visit: http://www.britishmuseum.org/whats on/exhibitions/witches and wicked bodies.aspxKeep on united postshttp://www.badwitch.co.uk/2014/03/viking-exhibition-swords-ships-silver.htmlhttp://www.badwitch.co.uk/2010/03/review-witchcraft-very-short.htmlhttp://www.badwitch.co.uk/2013/11/author-tracy-borman-talking-about.htmlhttp://www.badwitch.co.uk/2009/10/review-haxan-witchcraft-through-ages.htmlhttp://www.badwitch.co.uk/2012/08/boscastle-and-museum-of-witchcraft 3235.html