Thomas Waters
Biographic Data
| ID | 3765930 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Thomas Waters |
| GIVEN NAMES | Thomas |
| FAMILY NAME | Waters |
| SIGNATURE | WATERS T |
| AFFILIATIONS | Southern Illinois University Edwardsville |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6643-7449 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 11 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1960 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Irish Cursing and the Art of Magic, 1750-2018
Fairies, leprechauns, banshees, witches, holy wells and rural remedies. Historic Ireland is famous for its superstitions, magic and 'alternative beliefs'. Yet we should not ignore what was once the most widespread Irish magic of all: cursing. A righteous occult attack, a dark prayer for terrible pains to blight evildoers, cursing was unnervingly common from ancient times until the mid-twentieth century. This article explores its neglected modern …
Cursed Britain
This book unveils the enduring power of witchcraft, curses, and black magic in modern times. Few topics are so secretive or controversial. Yet, whether in the 1800s or the early 2000s, when disasters struck or personal misfortunes mounted, many Britons found themselves believing in things they had previously dismissed — dark supernatural forces. The book explores the lives of cursed or bewitched people, along with the witches and witch-busters wh…
Cursed Britain
Magic and the British Middle Classes, 1750–1900
This essay explores the attitudes of the British middle classes towards witchcraft, ghosts, and other so-called superstitions from the mid-eighteenth to the late nineteenth centuries. Conventional historiographical wisdom maintains that belief in magic among middle-class Britons declined gradually between the early modern and modern eras. Grounded in the study of newspapers, antiquarianism, public lectures, and literary fiction, this essay propos…
Maleficent Witchcraft in Britain since 1900
Journal Article Maleficent Witchcraft in Britain since 1900 Get access Thomas Waters Thomas Waters Beeston, Nottinghamshire Thomas Waters is an independent researcher based in Beeston, Nottinghamshire. He has taught at the universities of Derby, Leeds, Oxford, and Hertfordshire. He is currently writing a book about the history of witchcraft in modern Britain. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar History Worksho…
They seem to have all died out’
Journal Article 'They seem to have all died out': witches and witchcraft in Lark Rise to Candleford and the English countryside, c.1830–1930 Get access Thomas Waters Thomas Waters St. Catherine's College, University of Oxford Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Historical Research, Volume 87, Issue 235, February 2014, Pages 134–153, https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-2281.12023 Published: 16 January 2014
Wais Performance of Forensic versus Civilly Committed Mental Retardates
The WAIS performance of 34 forensic and 22 civilly committed mental retardates, hospitalized in the same psychiatric facility, was assessed. Forensic retardates, in contrast to their civilly committed counterparts, scored significantly higher on the Similarities subtest and showed a somewhat consistent higher performance from other WAIS scores suggesting a trend which might reflect “street wisdom” or intellectual assets of “survival value.”
The Black Middle Class
Student Leadership, Mathematics Aptitude and College Major
This report describes a significant difference found between a small group of college student leaders and one of college student non-leaders in both mathematics aptitude and college major. From consideration of rhe personality and aptitude correlaces of student leaders versus student non-leaders cited by Waters ( 1 9 6 9 ) , and Carson and Parker ( 1 9 6 6 ) , and student major concentration differences by Pohl and Pervin ( 1 9 6 8 ) , it was hyp…
The Validity of the Junior Eysenck Personality Inventory Lie Scale
Intensive Longitudinal Investigation of Anxiety in Hospitalized Juvenile Patients
This study involved detailed appraisal of the anxiety level of 12 juvenile patients in a hospital residential treatment program over a two-year period. Superficially viewed, these children could be described as juvenile delinquents. Each had a history of difficulty with the law: the boys had engaged in theft, arson, assault and murder; the girls were involved mainly in sexual promiscuity and were transferred from a state training school as incorr…
Magic and the British Middle Classes, 1750–1900
This essay explores the attitudes of the British middle classes towards witchcraft, ghosts, and other so-called superstitions from the mid-eighteenth to the late nineteenth centuries. Conventional historiographical wisdom maintains that belief in magic among middle-class Britons declined gradually between the early modern and modern eras. Grounded in the study of newspapers, antiquarianism, public lectures, and literary fiction, this essay propos…
Maleficent Witchcraft in Britain since 1900
Journal Article Maleficent Witchcraft in Britain since 1900 Get access Thomas Waters Thomas Waters Beeston, Nottinghamshire Thomas Waters is an independent researcher based in Beeston, Nottinghamshire. He has taught at the universities of Derby, Leeds, Oxford, and Hertfordshire. He is currently writing a book about the history of witchcraft in modern Britain. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar History Worksho…
Intensive Longitudinal Investigation of Anxiety in Hospitalized Juvenile Patients
This study involved detailed appraisal of the anxiety level of 12 juvenile patients in a hospital residential treatment program over a two-year period. Superficially viewed, these children could be described as juvenile delinquents. Each had a history of difficulty with the law: the boys had engaged in theft, arson, assault and murder; the girls were involved mainly in sexual promiscuity and were transferred from a state training school as incorr…
The Validity of the Junior Eysenck Personality Inventory Lie Scale
Student Leadership, Mathematics Aptitude and College Major
This report describes a significant difference found between a small group of college student leaders and one of college student non-leaders in both mathematics aptitude and college major. From consideration of rhe personality and aptitude correlaces of student leaders versus student non-leaders cited by Waters ( 1 9 6 9 ) , and Carson and Parker ( 1 9 6 6 ) , and student major concentration differences by Pohl and Pervin ( 1 9 6 8 ) , it was hyp…
The Black Middle Class
Wais Performance of Forensic versus Civilly Committed Mental Retardates
The WAIS performance of 34 forensic and 22 civilly committed mental retardates, hospitalized in the same psychiatric facility, was assessed. Forensic retardates, in contrast to their civilly committed counterparts, scored significantly higher on the Similarities subtest and showed a somewhat consistent higher performance from other WAIS scores suggesting a trend which might reflect “street wisdom” or intellectual assets of “survival value.”
They seem to have all died out’
Journal Article 'They seem to have all died out': witches and witchcraft in Lark Rise to Candleford and the English countryside, c.1830–1930 Get access Thomas Waters Thomas Waters St. Catherine's College, University of Oxford Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Historical Research, Volume 87, Issue 235, February 2014, Pages 134–153, https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-2281.12023 Published: 16 January 2014
Magic and the British Middle Classes, 1750–1900
This essay explores the attitudes of the British middle classes towards witchcraft, ghosts, and other so-called superstitions from the mid-eighteenth to the late nineteenth centuries. Conventional historiographical wisdom maintains that belief in magic among middle-class Britons declined gradually between the early modern and modern eras. Grounded in the study of newspapers, antiquarianism, public lectures, and literary fiction, this essay propos…
Maleficent Witchcraft in Britain since 1900
Journal Article Maleficent Witchcraft in Britain since 1900 Get access Thomas Waters Thomas Waters Beeston, Nottinghamshire Thomas Waters is an independent researcher based in Beeston, Nottinghamshire. He has taught at the universities of Derby, Leeds, Oxford, and Hertfordshire. He is currently writing a book about the history of witchcraft in modern Britain. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar History Worksho…
Cursed Britain
This book unveils the enduring power of witchcraft, curses, and black magic in modern times. Few topics are so secretive or controversial. Yet, whether in the 1800s or the early 2000s, when disasters struck or personal misfortunes mounted, many Britons found themselves believing in things they had previously dismissed — dark supernatural forces. The book explores the lives of cursed or bewitched people, along with the witches and witch-busters wh…
Cursed Britain
Irish Cursing and the Art of Magic, 1750-2018
Fairies, leprechauns, banshees, witches, holy wells and rural remedies. Historic Ireland is famous for its superstitions, magic and 'alternative beliefs'. Yet we should not ignore what was once the most widespread Irish magic of all: cursing. A righteous occult attack, a dark prayer for terrible pains to blight evildoers, cursing was unnervingly common from ancient times until the mid-twentieth century. This article explores its neglected modern …
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