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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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Images of the witch in nineteenth-century culture [PDF]
, 2012 This thesis examines the witch imagery used during the nineteenth century in children’s literature, realist and gothic fiction, poetry and art, and by practitioners and critics of mesmerism, spiritualism and alternative spirituality.
Elsley, Susan J.
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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. +1 more
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witch-team/witchmodel: v5.2.0-rd
, 2023 The WITCH integrated assessment ...
Laurent Drouet
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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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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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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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SÖYLENCE İLE GERÇEKLİK ARASINDA: 19. YÜZYIL OSMANLI MİZAH BASININDA KARAFERYE CADILARI
Akademik İncelemeler Dergisi, 2020 Osmanlı Devleti’nde ölümden sonra hayata dönen varlıklara ilişkin temel tanımlama “cadı” kavramıdır. Ancak konu hakkında yapılan çalışmalar genellikle “cadı” kavramını “vampir” kavramı ile açıklama eğilimindedir. Bu eğilimin temel sebebi ise 19. yüzyılın
Gökhan Demirkol
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