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The Dogs of Ninkilim, part two: Babylonian rituals to counter field pests [PDF]
, 2010 This article presents editions of all the extant Babylonian incantations against field pests. The sources date to the first millennium BC and many have not been published before.
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Sustainable Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Displacing people to make way for development projects is contentious. Empirical research demonstrates that neither human rights guidelines nor multilateral lenders' standards guarantee positive, sustainable outcomes for displaced people. With multiple new displacing projects proposed globally, including for renewable energy, we propose a new ...
Eddie Smyth +2 more
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Johannes Trithemius and Witches: Between Religion and Superstition
ReligionsThis contribution reconstructs the reflection on witches of Johannes Trithemius (1462–1516), a German Benedictine who took up the pen on several occasions to declare against the spread of witchcraft and the need to solve this problem.
Giulia Lovison
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Sustainable Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Sustainable development transforms production systems, requiring integrated environmental, social, and economic strategies. Energy systems are key agro‐industrial supply chains in developing countries. Brazil's soybean supply chain impacts Gross Domestic Product, mainly through exports.
Aline Veronese da Silva +3 more
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Sirens Chanting in Auvergne-Velay: A Story of Exegetical Pilgrimage on the "Via Podiensis"
Ad Limina, 2013 Migrating from Greek mythology to scripture and ecclesiastical writing, sirens are best known for the perils they put on the road of Odysseus, and conversely, on that of the crucified Christ and on that of the pilgrim, two significations that Odysseus ...
Avital Heyman
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The Possession of Thomas Darling: Adumbrations of a Jungian Psychohistory [PDF]
, 2009 Applying Jungian psychology to this microhistorical instance, I try to understand the potential, psychological significance of Darling?s possession experience. Using the frontispiece ? ?The Witch of Endor? ?
Lu, K
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The Control–Entropy Paradox: Modeling the Thermodynamic Limits of Environmental Governance
Systems Research and Behavioral Science, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Environmental governance often seeks to reduce disorder, yet the energetic and material costs of control are overlooked. This article presents the Control–Entropy Paradox, developing a formal systems model and a conceptual extension of governance theory.
Sibongiseni B. Hlabisa
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Algunas notas sobre el exorcismo en el occidente latino en la Antigüedad Tardía
Antigüedad y Cristianismo, 1991 The purpose of this article is the presentation of information about Exorcism in I he western world during the late antiquity, from the point of view historical - antropological, and based on the ancient clasical authors, especially on the hagiographies.
Manuel López Campuzano +1 more
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Media in Action: From Exorcism to Mesmerism
communication +1, 2015 In the Bavaria of 1775, the popular exorcist practices performed by the catholic priest Johann Joseph Gassner were discredited and superseded by the enlightened, ‘scientific’ system of Franz Anton Mesmers “Animal Magnetism”.
Stephan Gregory
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, 1999 Excerpt: A ritual for delivering persons from satanic or demonic domination. It somewhat parallels deprogramming, popularized in the 1970s to free individuals from cult influences.
Bufford, Rodger K.
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