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African Studies, 1996
Abstract This article1 describes witchcraft accusations and witch‐hunting in a lowveld village in the former ‘homeland’ district of Mhala, Gazankulu. Two dominant trends are revealed. Firstly, middle‐aged men and the elderly are the prime targets of witchcraft accusations.
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Abstract This article1 describes witchcraft accusations and witch‐hunting in a lowveld village in the former ‘homeland’ district of Mhala, Gazankulu. Two dominant trends are revealed. Firstly, middle‐aged men and the elderly are the prime targets of witchcraft accusations.
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, 2014 The “Morris Witch” in The Witch of Edmonton
2002Old Carter concludes The Witch of Edmonton on a note of emotional compromise: “So, let’s every man home to Edmonton with heavy hearts, yet as merry as we can, though not as we would” (5.3.166–67).2 Given that he has just lost a daughter, Susan (murdered impulsively by her bigamous husband), Carter’s mixed response is understandable, as is that of his ...
Laura Denker, Laurie Maguire
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Nutrition Reviews, 1970
As a refreshing departure from our usual articles, we welcome the chance to publish these perceptions of an unusual pediatrician. In presenting Dr. Cicely Williams to her Baltimore audience, Dr. Nicholas J. Fortuin said: "Today we introduce to you a distinguished British woman of medicine. Though born in Jamaica, Dr.
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As a refreshing departure from our usual articles, we welcome the chance to publish these perceptions of an unusual pediatrician. In presenting Dr. Cicely Williams to her Baltimore audience, Dr. Nicholas J. Fortuin said: "Today we introduce to you a distinguished British woman of medicine. Though born in Jamaica, Dr.
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New German Critique, 1978
The topic of "witches" has become fashionable, has indeed already acquired a fatal glamour. It has even achieved scholarly legitimacy. The fact that researchers are once again concerned with the historical phenomenon of witch persecution is by no means the origin of the vital interest in the subject today: that would be the vain assumption of ivory ...
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The topic of "witches" has become fashionable, has indeed already acquired a fatal glamour. It has even achieved scholarly legitimacy. The fact that researchers are once again concerned with the historical phenomenon of witch persecution is by no means the origin of the vital interest in the subject today: that would be the vain assumption of ivory ...
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Scientific American, 2017
The article discusses witches and terrorists. It includes information on the impact of torture on the accused witches and terrorists to obtain useful information. It also mentions a book "Cautio Criminalis", waterboarding used on journalist Christopher Hitchens, and torture shown in the television program 24.
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The article discusses witches and terrorists. It includes information on the impact of torture on the accused witches and terrorists to obtain useful information. It also mentions a book "Cautio Criminalis", waterboarding used on journalist Christopher Hitchens, and torture shown in the television program 24.
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Examining the paucity of historical knowledge of Tituba, the only Black woman in the Salem Witch Trial archives from 1692–1693, this chapter proposes a decolonial method of subjunctive reading by examining Maryse Condé's novel, I, Tituba, Black Witch of Salem.
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When we think about the academic institution, where is the witch? Equally, when we think about the witch, where is the academic institution? And why is it that, although cultural representations of witches “coming into” their witching frequently imagine this initiation happening in the classroom, the scholarly study of witches rarely acknowledges a ...
Schaller, Karen, Charnock, Ruth
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Schaller, Karen, Charnock, Ruth
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2008
The idea that witches flew to Sabbaths to worship the Devil through a variety of obscene rites, including perversions of the Christian sacraments, came to play an increasingly prominent role in learned theories of witchcraft over the course of the fifteenth century, and became a crucial element in the early modern witch persecutions.1 It transformed an
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The idea that witches flew to Sabbaths to worship the Devil through a variety of obscene rites, including perversions of the Christian sacraments, came to play an increasingly prominent role in learned theories of witchcraft over the course of the fifteenth century, and became a crucial element in the early modern witch persecutions.1 It transformed an
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