The Witch

<p>Horror fans rejoice, because this week we're talking about The Witch! Join us to learn more about what you had to do to get expelled from Puritan communities, ritual uses of baby blood, apples, the Song of Songs, and more! </p> <p>Content warning: Infanticide</p> <p>Sources:</p> <p>Film Background:</p> <p>Stephen Saito, "Persistence of Vision: Inside the Making of the Witch, a Horror Classic for the Ages," MovieMaker, available at https://www.moviemaker.com/persistence-of-vision-the-witch-robert-eggers/<br /> Kevin Fallon, "The Witch: The Making of the Year's Scariest Movie," Daily Beast, available at https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-witch-the-making-of-the-years-scariest-movie<br /> Simon Abrams, "The Witch," Rogerebert.com, available at <a href= "https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/the-witch-2016">https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/the-witch-2016</a></p> <p>Song of Songs:<br /> NIV Study Bible<br /> William Phipps, "The Plight of the Song of Songs," Journal of the American Academy of Religion 42, 1 (1974)<br /> Belden C. Lane, "Two Schools of Desire: Nature and Marriage in Seventeenth-Century Puritanism," Church History 69, 2 (2000)<br /> Julie Sievers, "Refiguring the Song of Songs: John Cotton's 1655 Sermon and the Antinomian Controversy," New England Quarterly 76, 1 (2003)</p> <p>Expulsion from Puritan Communities:<br /> Transcript of the Trial of Anne Hutchinson, 1637: http://bcs.bedfordstmartins.com/WebPub/history/mckayunderstanding1e/0312668872/Primary_Documents/US_History/Transcript%20of%20the%20Trial%20of%20Anne%20Hutchinson.pdf<br /> Nan Goodman, "Banishment, Jurisdiction, and Identity in Seventeenth-Century New England: The Case of Roger Williams," Early American Studies 7, 1 (2009)<br /> Ben Barker-Benfield, "Anne Hutchinson and the Puritan Attitude Toward Women," Feminist Studies 1, 2 (1972)<br /> James F. Cooper Jr. "Anne Hutchinson and the 'Lay Rebellion' Against Clergy," New England Quarterly 61, 3 (1988)<br /> Richard J. Ross, "The Career of Puritan Jurisprudence," Law and History Review 2