Nel 1968 un gruppo di giovani rockers americani, capitanato da Vincent Furnier, si trovava nella necessità di modificare il nome della band, che all’epoca era “Nazz”.
Mentre discutevano su quale adottare, Furnier rivelò ai compagni che durante una seduta spiritica aveva scoperto di essere la reincarnazione di una strega, Alice Cooper, bruciata sul rogo nel Seicento nella città di Salem.
Salem è un nome che compare spesso nella letteratura per via di una serie di fatti inspiegabili che nel 1692 coinvolse molti esponenti di questa piccola e litigiosa comunità di puritani del Massachusetts.
Tutto cominciò quando due bambine cominciarono a dire di sentire suoni che nessuno udiva, a gridare senza motivo, ad arrampicarsi sui mobili e a contorcere il loro corpo in modo innaturale. Quando gli adulti della comunità cominciarono ad indagare, esse parlarono di inquietanti visioni e di strani incontri notturni a cui partecipava un misterioso man who came from Boston.
face of these inexplicable events, the small community of Puritans became convinced that these phenomena were caused by the presence of the devil and that the events were interpreted as true witchcraft.
is a community of Protestants there was the Inquisition. It was, however, created a special court that he began to arrest, interrogate and prosecute. The widespread use of torture as an instrument of interrogation led various confessions that breathed into play many other people. Within months, the charges swept in the countries surrounding, leading to the death penalty for 19 people, while 150 were arrested and 200 others were accused of witchcraft. The situation
appeared severe enough to lead some Protestant ministers to lobby the government to intervene, because the phenomenon, despite the condemnation, he seemed unstoppable.
The special court was suppressed by the governor and replaced by another court that does not accept the views of young people as evidence for the prosecution. Of the 50 people still in prison, almost all were innocent. Only three were convicted, but the governor suspended the sentence. Only then will the mysterious epidemic of witchcraft ended.
Some scholars believe there would be a scientific explanation of the phenomenon, which was amplified by the system of interrogation, by the denunciations of the courts concerned and superstition.
The cause of this collective hallucination would be sought first in the hysteria caused by fear of the continuing attacks of the Indians. The other would be the result of ergot, a form of poisoning caused by a parasite of grasses, especially rye, which gives the plant infected with the name of "ergot". The alkaloids of the poisonous mushroom, also known in LSD, causing acute poisoning in the central nervous system that can lead to death, but also the effects of powerful hallucinations.
Vincent Furnier did not just give the name of the band Alice Cooper in honor of the witch of Salem, but kept it as their own stage name taken in 1975 when his solo career. The first band
Alice Coper and only later gave birth to the "shock rock", introducing elements macabre and dark, and determining the success of that imaginary horror became a trademark for many heavy metal musicians. Marilyn Manson, for example, a boy was selling in secret tapes of Alice Cooper in the Catholic school he attended and was therefore suspended.
Alice Cooper's career continues today, although the peak of its success is considered a single trade of 1989 included in its 18th album, "Trash".
Even this song, which speaks of the poisonous attraction for a femme fatale, as always aroused controversy. In this case it was the original video to be censored and the sequences were shot indicted again, this time with a vest covering the nakedness of the model Rana Kennedy.
Alice Cooper, Poison. Mentre discutevano su quale adottare, Furnier rivelò ai compagni che durante una seduta spiritica aveva scoperto di essere la reincarnazione di una strega, Alice Cooper, bruciata sul rogo nel Seicento nella città di Salem.
Salem è un nome che compare spesso nella letteratura per via di una serie di fatti inspiegabili che nel 1692 coinvolse molti esponenti di questa piccola e litigiosa comunità di puritani del Massachusetts.
Tutto cominciò quando due bambine cominciarono a dire di sentire suoni che nessuno udiva, a gridare senza motivo, ad arrampicarsi sui mobili e a contorcere il loro corpo in modo innaturale. Quando gli adulti della comunità cominciarono ad indagare, esse parlarono di inquietanti visioni e di strani incontri notturni a cui partecipava un misterioso man who came from Boston.
face of these inexplicable events, the small community of Puritans became convinced that these phenomena were caused by the presence of the devil and that the events were interpreted as true witchcraft.
is a community of Protestants there was the Inquisition. It was, however, created a special court that he began to arrest, interrogate and prosecute. The widespread use of torture as an instrument of interrogation led various confessions that breathed into play many other people. Within months, the charges swept in the countries surrounding, leading to the death penalty for 19 people, while 150 were arrested and 200 others were accused of witchcraft. The situation
appeared severe enough to lead some Protestant ministers to lobby the government to intervene, because the phenomenon, despite the condemnation, he seemed unstoppable.
The special court was suppressed by the governor and replaced by another court that does not accept the views of young people as evidence for the prosecution. Of the 50 people still in prison, almost all were innocent. Only three were convicted, but the governor suspended the sentence. Only then will the mysterious epidemic of witchcraft ended.
Some scholars believe there would be a scientific explanation of the phenomenon, which was amplified by the system of interrogation, by the denunciations of the courts concerned and superstition.
The cause of this collective hallucination would be sought first in the hysteria caused by fear of the continuing attacks of the Indians. The other would be the result of ergot, a form of poisoning caused by a parasite of grasses, especially rye, which gives the plant infected with the name of "ergot". The alkaloids of the poisonous mushroom, also known in LSD, causing acute poisoning in the central nervous system that can lead to death, but also the effects of powerful hallucinations.
Vincent Furnier did not just give the name of the band Alice Cooper in honor of the witch of Salem, but kept it as their own stage name taken in 1975 when his solo career. The first band
Alice Coper and only later gave birth to the "shock rock", introducing elements macabre and dark, and determining the success of that imaginary horror became a trademark for many heavy metal musicians. Marilyn Manson, for example, a boy was selling in secret tapes of Alice Cooper in the Catholic school he attended and was therefore suspended.
Alice Cooper's career continues today, although the peak of its success is considered a single trade of 1989 included in its 18th album, "Trash".
Even this song, which speaks of the poisonous attraction for a femme fatale, as always aroused controversy. In this case it was the original video to be censored and the sequences were shot indicted again, this time with a vest covering the nakedness of the model Rana Kennedy.
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