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Le jeu de la parodie dans Woman and Nature: The Roaring Inside Her de Susan Griffin
Itinéraires, 2022 In this paper, I will study an excerpt from Woman and Nature (1978) by Susan Griffin reprinted in the 2016 collection Reclaim to show how the author condemns patriarchal and ecocidal discourse while implementing an ecofeminist practice of language.
Marion Coste
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The Sanctuaries for Witch-hunt Victims in Northern Ghana
Modern Africa, 2018 Witch-hunts in Ghana’s Northern Region occur mainly among neighbours and members of the extended family. Triggers for accusations are disease, death and accidents. With many exceptions, the accused are postmenopausal women.
Felix Riedel
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Itinéraires, 2023 Penned as an essay, this paper tackles the emergence of the “sœurcière” archetype –in French a portmanteau word merging the notion of sisterhood with that of witches—as part of an interdisciplinary creative research project carried out in situ in the ...
Bénédicte Meillon
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The survival of witchcraft prosecutions and witch belief in South West Scotland [PDF]
, 2006 During the era of the Scottish witch-hunts, Dumfries and Galloway was one of the last regions to initiate witch prosecutions, but it was also one of the most reluctant to completely surrender all belief in witches until a comparatively late date.
Andrew Agnew A +4 more
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Males, masculine honor and witch hunting in seventeenth-century Germany [PDF]
, 2004 This article aims to contribute to the emerging cultural study of early modern witchcraft by examining one particular prosecution from the Bishopric of Bamberg—a territory in Germany that experienced very intensive witch persecutions between 1625 and ...
Walinski-Kiehl, R.
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Las guantadas y el orden moral en la Nueva España. Primera parte del siglo XVIII
Nuevo mundo - Mundos Nuevos, 2006 This text analyses three inquisitorial cases which deal with women accused of witchcraft in New Spain in the first half of the XVIIIth century. Many kinds of violence – physical, psychological and institutional – are identified.
Lourdes Somohano Martínez
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Hybrid worlds of imagination: A comparative analysis of demonological narratives among rural communities in Croatia and Serbia [PDF]
Glasnik Etnografskog Instituta SANUThe co-authored text by Luka Šešo and Danilo Trbojević represents a unique comparative analysis of ethnographic material, relating to the form, role, and status of demonological traditions in rural communities of Croatia and Serbia. The research
Šešo Luka, Trbojević Danilo
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Believed belief: science/religion versus Sukuma magic [PDF]
, 2008 status ...
Stroeken, Koenraad
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Evil and Superstition in Sub-Saharan Africa: Religious Infanticide and Filicide [PDF]
, 2015 A distinct category of women has been identified in different parts of Sub-Saharan Africa, those who commit extreme forms of violence and murder against their children in order to fulfil their religious obligations or to protect themselves from perceived
Agazue, Chima Damian, Gavin, Helen
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Cahiers d’Études Germaniques, 2021 Based on the figure of the witch, this essay approaches the work of two artists from different avant-garde generations, which eludes simple categorizations: Ré Soupault (1901-1996), Bauhaus student, photographer, fashion designer, and translator of ...
Agathe Mareuge
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