ABSTRACT
Emotions are fundamental to the creation and maintenance of communities. They are employed to establish the various feeling rules, cultural scripts, norms and practices that define communities, to identify the individuals and groups to be considered its natural members and to designate those to be excluded. Through the performance of emotions members of a community demonstrate their membership and identity, and the regulation of such performances helps ensure communities remain unified. This link between emotions and community has been integral to studies of emotions over the last several decades, and can be fruitfully applied to the visual imagery of witchcraft that emerged within European societies from the mid-fifteenth century.
