TROUBLE OF THE WITCHES

It is in the young and old, flirty witches, and good-looking vampires--these are just some of the supernatural characters that have suddenly entered a place in an unwanted way - the book, movie, and video-game businesses. What is the appeal?

google.com, pub-7820813838927254, DIRECT, f08c47fec0942fa0 "Belief in ghosts has flew beautifully increased in at least the last 20 years, from one in ten Americans to one in three," writes  - the study of how people act towards each other, professor Claude Fischer. "Young Americans are about twice as likely as old Americans to say they have talked to people (who can speak to the dead), believe in ghosts, and believe in haunted houses."

As expected, stories about evil spirits living in humans are making a scary comeback. "The reborn success of evil possession in popular culture owes something to the zombie, werewolf and vampire sudden rush of the past ten years," writes Michael Calia in The Wall Street Journal.


One report states that "anywhere from 25 percent to 50 percent of people worldwide believe in ghosts, and ghosts feature boldly and clearly in the books of most cultures." And a survey done in the United States by (the study of how people act towards each other) professors Christopher Bader and Carson Mencken "showed/told about that a walking very unsteadily (or huge) 70 to 80 percent of Americans strongly believe in at least one type of related to events without scientific proof activity.