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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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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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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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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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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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Cahiers d’Études Italiennes, 2012 Through the analysis of Bernardino da Siena’s preachers in italian vulgar (Florence 1424–1425 and Siena 1425–1427), the present paper aims at piecing together the various stereotypes of the witch at the dawn of the big European persecutions.
Émilie Zanone
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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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Dataplane Specialization for High-performance OpenFlow Software Switching [PDF]
, 2016 OpenFlow is an amazingly expressive dataplane program- ming language, but this expressiveness comes at a severe performance price as switches must do excessive packet clas- sification in the fast path.
Bansal M. +9 more
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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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