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Levack rejects past monocausal explanations of the witch-hunt for being “singularly unconvincing, if not demonstrably false,” and instead argues for a multicausal approach “which sees the emergence of new ideas about witches and a series of fundamental changes in the criminal law as the necessary preconditions of the witch-hunt, and both religious change and social tension as its more immediate causes.” In the book Levack navigates the reader through the strange world of devil’s pacts and witch’s teats and trials by ordeal in an attempt to explain how an abstract fear of witches manifested itself in European imagination and legal institutions. Compare Hamilton’s interview on Mister Roger’s Neighborhood with The Witch-Hunt in Early Modern Europe (1987) by historian Brian Levack, which seeks to explain the rise and decline of witch-hunts throughout across the Western world, and why the hunts reached their apex in the late-sixteenth and early-seventeenth centuries. I could keep talking about this interview, but this is a book review. Photo of Margaret Hamilton and Fred Rogers from the set of Mister Roger’s Neighborhood (source: The Fred Rogers Company, found in The Pittsburgh Gazette, ).
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Yet when I first saw the interview, I could feel cognitive dissonance as my brain tried to process that Margaret Hamilton, the kind woman talking to the cardigan-clad modern saint, was the Wicked Witch of the West. Now it’s time for a confession: I was one of those children who was “quite scared” by the Wicked Witch of the West, whose green skin, whacky cackle, and hordes of flying monkeys haunted my dreams. Rogers, I am a little unhappy because lots of children are quite scared by and that makes me feel a little sad.” Rogers then asks Hamilton to speak on public reception of the iconic character, Hamilton says: “Sometimes, Mr. Rogers asks Hamilton to share her opinion about the Wicked Witch, and Hamilton responds “sometimes we think she’s just mean and a very bad person, but actually you have to think about her point of view: that it wasn’t as happy a time as she wanted it to be because she never got what she wanted.” Mr.
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Rogers on screen, instead of her iconic green skin and black hat, she wears a pink dress, a pearl necklace, and a warm smile. On May 14, 1975, Fred Rogers invited actress Margaret Hamilton, famed for her portrayal of The Wicked Witch of the West in The Wizard of Oz (1939), to appear on his public television program, Mister Roger’s Neighborhood.