Abuse

female power and

, 11

of power

, 3–4

torture as

, 126–130

women, power and

, 4–11

Acquiring monstrosity

, 43–44

Adolescent witch

, 61–62

American Horror Story: Coven (AHS: Coven)

, 64–65, 100

and anxiety of embodiment

, 65–69

American Horror Story: Coven [television show]

, 61–62

Anglicization

, 18

Anglo-Canadian invasion, devil as

, 21–23

Anxiety of embodiment

, 65–69

Anxiety-ridden misogynistic myths

, 70

Apollonian childhood theories

, 32

Archie’s Madhouse [comic series]

, 69

Assaults

, 109

Authoritarianism

, 136–137

Babine [film]

, 15

Baptism

, 71–72

Behavioural Science Programme

, 129–130

Beowulf [poem]

, 47–48, 99

female monstrosity in

, 50–51

femme fatale in

, 51–58

Modthryth

, 49

Optional depth

, 48–49

Braveheart

, 5

Browser history, checking

, 113

Bureaucracy

, 127

Burgerz

, 89–90, 95, 101

Bye Bye Birdie [film]

, 61

Capgras delusion

, 31

Capgras syndrome

, 31, 44

Catholic Church

, 18, 21–22

Celebrity status

, 3

Changeling

, 32

children

, 32–35

female adult

, 36–38

murder of Bridget Cleary

, 38–41

myths

, 33–34

twentieth and twenty-first century faeries in fantasy texts

, 41–42

Chasse-galerie: La légende [film]

, 15

Child welfare and systemic failures

, 151

Childness’

, 32

Chilling Adventures of Sabrina, The [comic series]

, 61–62, 64–65, 69, 72, 100

Cis-women

, 100

Coercive control

, 2, 109, 111–112

Community values

, 147–148

Computer monitoring software

, 113

Conflict Tactics Scale (CTS)

, 105–106

Conte

, 18

‘Conte populaire’

, 21

Contemporary teenage witch

, 61–62, 64

Control

, 1–2, 110

Coping with motherhood

, 150–151

Corporeal Feminism

, 61–62

Counterintelligence Field Activity (CIFA)

, 129–130

Coverture

, 126–127

Crime Survey of England and Wales (CSEW)

, 107

Criminal justice system

, 141

Crucible, The

, 69

Damnation

, 16–17

Dangerous women

, 146–147

Danish Girl, The [film]

, 82

Dead Until Dark

, 41–42

Death Tourism

, 5–6

Defence Counterintelligence and Human Intelligence Center (DCHC)

, 129–130

Devil as Anglo-Canadian invasion

, 21–23

‘Devil at Dance’ stories

, 20–21

Dictators

, 2–3

Digital coercive control

, 105, 109

female-perpetrated intimate partner abuse/homicide

, 107–110

intimate partner abuse/homicide and digital media

, 110–114

intimate partner homicide and offline media

, 119–121

IPA

, 105–106

Irvin’s story

, 114

murder

, 114–116

toxic trio’

, 116–119

Digital criminology

, 105, 110–111

Digital media

, 110–114

Digital voyeurism

, 113

Dionysian childhood theories

, 32

Disempowered men

, 146–147

Domestic abuse

, 3–4

Domestic homicide

, 153

Domestic violence

, 5, 108

Economic hardship

, 107–108

Efficacy of torture

, 125–126

Email tampering

, 113

English language

, 21–22

Ésimésac [film]

, 15

Expert power

, 2

Facebook

, 109, 111

Fae Chronicles, The

, 42

‘Faerie’

, 36

‘Fairy’

, 36

Family homicide

, 139

bad mothers and maternal monsters

, 142–144

child welfare and systemic failures

, 151

coping with motherhood

, 150–151

disempowered men and dangerous women

, 146–147

good blokes and honourable fathers

, 144–146

media and community values

, 147–148

motherhood, medical discourses, and mythmaking

, 148–150

women and violence

, 140–142

Family

, 3–4

Female adult changelings

, 36–38

Female militancy

, 50–51

Female monster

, 49

Female monstrosity in Beowulf

, 50–51

Female power and abuse

, 11

Female sexuality

, 99

Female victimhood

, 4–5

Female-perpetrated intimate partner abuse/homicide

, 107–110

Femininity

, 1–2

Feminist silences

, 141–142

Feminist theory

, 47–48

Femme fatale

, 49–50, 99

in Beowulf

, 51–58

Fiction, women and torture in

, 134–135

Filicide

, 139

reporting and media framing of

, 148

Filles du roi

, 18–19

Film, women and torture in

, 134–135

Financial hardship

, 107–108

Firelord

, 37

Fourth-wave feminism

, 61–62, 64

Fourth-wave teen witch

, 62

French and Raven model

, 3

French language

, 21–22

French-Canadian women, history of

, 18–20

Genocide

, 153

Geotag

, 113

Global positioning system (GPS)

, 111–112

Good transsexual

, 82

Guinevere

, 37

Gyn/Ecology

, 63–64

Habitants

, 18

Hands-on perpetrators

, 130–132

Harry Potter series

, 134–135

Hearty

, 80–81, 83–84, 88, 90, 95

High Kings, The

, 37

Homicide. See also Family homicide

, 105, 110, 114, 153

Honourable fathers, good blokes and

, 144–146

Hormone replacement therapy (H. R. T.)

, 83

Horror

, 48–49

Hyper-feminine trans female ideal

, 82–83

Idealized femininity

, 82

Identity politics

, 80–81

Illusion of power

, 157

Ilsa, She Wolf of the SS [Nazi exploitation film]

, 134

Incel movement

, 79–80

Industrialization

, 18

Satan’s body as symbolic representation of

, 23–26

Informational power

, 2–3

Informed feminism

, 88

Instant messaging and chat rooms

, 113

Interdisciplinarity

, 2

Intimate partner

, 114

homicide

, 119, 121, 139, 153

Intimate partner abuse (IPA)

, 105–106, 108, 110, 114

Intimate partner violence (IPV)

, 108

Intimate terrorism

, 106

Intimidation

, 109

Keystroke logging

, 113

Kik [mobile messaging application]

, 111

Kiss of Shadows, A

, 41–42

‘La fee’

, 36

Le diable

, 20

Leader

, 2–3

Love Magic [fifteenth-century painting]

, 62–63

Male

disempowered

, 146–147

violence

, 139–140

Maleficium

, 62–63

Malleus Maleficarum

, 67–68

Mariticide

, 153

Masculinity

, 1–2, 107–108

Maternal abnegation model

, 47–48

Maternal monsters, bad mothers and

, 142–144

Meaning of Folklore, The

, 16

Media

coverage of criminal trials

, 142–143

framing of women

, 139–140

values

, 147–148

Medical discourses

, 148–150

#MeToo movement

, 64, 100

Menstruation

, 99

Mobile messaging applications

, 111

Mobile phone technology

, 109, 112–113

Modern teenage witch

, 61–62

Modern witch

, 64

Modthryth

, 49

Money Heist [Spanish crime drama]

, 134

Monstrous girl

agency and choice in The Witch

, 72–77

AHS: Coven and anxiety of embodiment

, 65–69

Chilling Adventures of Sabrina

, 69–72

women and witchcraft

, 62–64

‘Monstrous-feminine’

, 15–16, 43–44, 61–62

Moors Murders

, 155

Motherhood

, 148–150

coping with

, 150–151

Multiple identity disorder

, 8–9

Mysticism

, 8–9

Mythmaking

, 148–150

Narcissistic personality

, 4

Neo-Freudianism

, 100–101

Non-coercive strategies

, 125

Non-feminine violence

, 123–124

Offline media

, 119–121

One-sex model

, 65–66

Optional depth

, 48–49

Ordinary women, extraordinary actions

, 135–137

‘Orva la fee’

, 36

Outlander series

, 42

Patriotism

, 136–137

Person–situation interaction

, 136–137

Physical assaults

, 109

Physical violence

, 109

Political power

, 159–160

Post-millennial teen witch

, 61–62

Power

, 1–2

abuse of

, 3–4

blasted heath

, 7–8

deep in Russian forest

, 8–9

female power and abuse

, 11

floating through space on astronomical turtle

, 9–11

illusion in high office, in the high street, and at home

, 157

power of high office and women

, 157–158

power-based abuse

, 3–4

powerless masses

, 159–160

powerless powers

, 158–159

theories of

, 2–3

women, power, and abuse

, 4–11

Powerless

masses

, 159–160

powers

, 158–159

Premenstrual syndrome (PMS)

, 70–71

President of the United States (POTUS)

, 157, 159

Prisoners of war (POWs)

, 126

Psychodynamics

, 100–101

theory

, 4

Psychology of power abuse

, 4

Public perception of female killers

, 153–154

Punk mood

, 79–80

Quebecois cultural identity

, 15–16

Racism

, 90–91, 128, 157

Rectal exam

, 124–125

Referent power

, 2

Reward-based power

, 2

Road to Avalon, The

, 37

Sabrina, the Teenage Witch

, 69

Salvation

, 26–27

Self-defence notion

, 105–106

Sex-trafficking

, 43–44

Sexual assault

, 124–125

Sexual violence

, 5

Short message service texts (SMS)

, 111–112

‘Si’

, 31–32

‘Sidh’

, 31–32

Situational couple violence

, 106

Situationism

, 135

Social networking sites (SNSs)

, 109, 111

Southern Vampire Mysteries, The

, 41–42

Sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS)

, 142–143

Technology-enhanced abuse

, 110–112

Teenage witch

, 68–69

contemporary

, 61–62, 64

modern

, 61–62

Teeth [horror film]

, 65–66

Terroir

, 26

Text messages

, 111–112

Third Magic, The

, 37

Threat

, 48–49

#TimesUp movement

, 64

Torture

, 123–124, 153

abuse of power

, 125–126, 130

and crimes against humanity

, 131–132

efficacy of

, 125–126

in fiction and film

, 134–135

through gendered lens

, 132–134

hands-on perpetrators

, 130–132

memos

, 127–128

modern society

, 126

ordinary women, extraordinary actions

, 135–137

of slaves and foreigners

, 125–126

types

, 124–125

women

, 123

‘Toxic trio’

, 116–119

Trans Rights Activists

, 79–80

Trans-womanhood

, 100–101

Transgender apocalypse

, 79–80

apocalyptic vision claims

, 85–86

Burgerz

, 89–90, 95

foreboding

, 86–87

generational reactions

, 96–97

‘Good transsexual’

, 81–82

Hearty

, 80–81, 83–84, 88, 90, 95

hyper-feminine trans female ideal

, 82–83

informed feminism

, 88

punk mood

, 79

Transgender apocalypse

, 100–101

Transgender figure

, 79–80

Transphobia

, 90–91

True Blood [HBO television phenomenon]

, 41–42

Uxoricide

, 153

Vagina dentata

, 65–67

Vampire Girl

, 42

‘Veil of legitimacy’

, 127

Victimology

, 153

Violence

domestic

, 5, 108

intimate partner violence

, 108

male

, 139–140

physical

, 109

situational couple

, 106

women and

, 140–142

War crimes

, 153

‘War on Terror’

, 124–125

WhatsApp messenger

, 111

‘White womanhood’

, 82

Witch, The [film]

, 61–62, 64–65, 100

agency and choice in

, 72–77

Witch-media

, 6–7

Witchcraft, women and

, 62–64

Witches

, 63–64

Women

, 43, 1–2, 139

abusing power

, 127–128

abusing state power by ordering torture

, 129

in Anglo-Saxon culture

, 50–51

Bone, Kristin

, 44

in Canada

, 43–44

dangerous

, 146–147

hegemonic discourses of

, 107

homicide perpetrators

, 153

media framing of

, 139–140

men’s perceptions of

, 43

ordinary women, extraordinary actions

, 135–137

power, abuse and

, 4–11

power of high office and

, 157–158

priest, devil, and women’s subjectivity

, 26–27

of Quebec

, 20

in Quebecois during nineteenth century

, 17–18

right to privacy

, 111–112

role media coverage in Rwandan and Bosnian–Croatian conflicts

, 132–133

role Quebecois of

, 27

serial killers

, 141–142

in society

, 19–20

and torture in fiction and film

, 134–135

violence

, 105–106, 123–124, 140, 142

and witchcraft

, 62–64

WW2 Axis power female torturers

, 154–155

Zero Dark 30

, 134