Spooky drawings, photographs and posters will adorn a Cornell library this Halloween as part of a witches exhibit that explores how cultural characterizations of witches throughout history reveal insights about society’s perception of women. The World Bewitch’d will feature the first-ever book on witchcraft, numerous transcripts from the European witch trials, the first drawing of flying witches and many other manuscripts from Andrew Dickson White’s personal library collection. The exhibit will open at 4 p.m. on Halloween in Kroch Library and will remain open until Aug. 31. Howe said that witchcraft is “fun to think about” because it is “eerie and creepy and a little bit scary”. “Because witches are so powerful and threatening, sometimes they are put in the real world to see what the comical outcomes are.

Source: Daily Sun October 18, 2017 03:33 UTC