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Witchcraft and Witchcraft Cleansing in Southern Zimbabwe
Anthropos, 2007 This article investigates the social mechanism of witchcraft in Hwali ward in Zimbabwe. It argues that the discourse of witchcraft is a local idiom and means to explain and control modern changes. The escalating witchcraft and antiwitchcraft practices can be seen as both explanatory and instrumental.
Zachrisson, Per
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African witchcraft in theological perspective
HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2004 This article is a theological contribution aimed at creating an understanding of the phenomenon of witchcraft in South Africa. Witchcraft still causes major social problems in this country.
I.W.C. van Wyk
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Contrary to nature : Inuit conception of witchcraft
Scripta Instituti Donneriani Aboensis, 1987 The present contribution to the phenomenology of witchcraft will depend for its data on the traditional conceptions, rites, and folklore of witchcraft among the Inuit (Eskimo) of Čanada and Greenland.
Daniel Merkur
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, 2019 A chapter on witchcraft in film, one that appears in a book primarily about the history of the phenomenon clearly has a different purpose than the numerous treatments of witchcraft that appear in film studies and popular culture volumes. Thus, this chapter will consider several of the central themes thrown up by numerous depictions of witchcraft in ...
David Nash, Nash, David
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Getting shot of elves: healing, witchcraft and fairies in the Scottish witchcraft trials [PDF]
, 2005 This paper re-examines the evidence of the Scottish witchcraft trials for beliefs associated by scholars with “elf-shot.” Some supposed evidence for elf-shot is dismissed, but other material illuminates the interplay between illness, healing and ...
Hall, A., Hall, Alaric
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Delik Santet Dalam Konstruksi Rancangan Kitab Undang-Undang Hukum Pidana
Al-Adalah, 2020 This study discusses witchcraft (santet) as one of the controversial offenses in the Criminal Code Bill. Socially, witchcraft (santet) is believed to be an act that can harm people, narrate, or even kill people.
Satriadi satriadi
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Biblical principles as an answer to the African people�s questioning of witchcraft
Verbum et Ecclesia, 2012 Witchcraft is still an enormous and serious issue in African culture. The media, including the entertainment component (e.g. African Magic programmes on satellite television), portray witchcraft as an issue that needs to be addressed. Witchcraft has in a
David K. Semenya, Rantoa Letsosa
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Religions, 2023 This article explores intersectionality of identities within Dalit and Adivasi traditions through a review of contemporary research on practices of witchcraft.
Jolanda Brunnekreef
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Children &Society, EarlyView., 2023 Abstract As a primary source for the early ages, picture books guide preschool children's gender perception through stories and illustrations. However, previous studies have criticised an overall gender inequality in children's picture books. Compared to the increasing attention on gender diversity in the UK picture book industry, there has been little
Yi Li, Melissa Terras, Yongning Li
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HIV and AIDS in the context of South African indigenous religious Discourse [PDF]
, 2012 This thesis explores indigenous religious discourse around witchcraft in South Africa and how it relates to the HIV crisis, as well as the social and economic realities the epidemic brings forth.
Pöhler, Laura
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