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The Deceptive Nature of Magic and Witchcraft: A Cultural Practice and Its Menace on Zimbabwean Society [PDF]
E-Journal of Religious and Theological StudiesThis study critically examines the deceptive nature of magic and witchcraft as cultural practices in Zimbabwe and highlights its negative impact on society. Based on social conflict theory, the research explores how the belief in witchcraft fosters fear,
Dylan Yanano Mangani , Temba Rugwiji
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Pentecostal Conceptions of Evil Forces: An Exposition on Warfare Prayer and Imprecation in Modern Nigeria [PDF]
E-Journal of Religious and Theological StudiesThis study critically examines the deceptive nature of magic and witchcraft as cultural practices in Zimbabwe and highlights its negative impact on society. Based on social conflict theory, the research explores how the belief in witchcraft fosters fear,
Jemimah Ogechi Ekechi
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The Anthropology of Magic and Sorcery in Tunisian society: An Ethnographic study
Journal of Umm Al-Qura University for Social Sciences, 2023 This research is concerned with the study of the phenomenon of witchcraft and sorcery in Arab societies through a field study in Tunisian society, which included a sample of workers in the field of witchcraft and witchcraft.
Said Abdelli
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Curses or Threats? Debating the Power of Witches’ Words in 17th-Century Scottish Courtrooms
NJES: Nordic Journal of English studies, 2017 17th-century Scottish court records present a perspective on witchcraft language that is unavailable in Early Modern English trials, namely that of defence lawyers.
Magdalena Leitner
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Witchcraft and Scepticism in England: A Comparison of Key Texts by Reginald Scot, John Webster and Francis Hutchinson [PDF]
, 2021 The aim of this thesis is to examine the writing on witchcraft of three important authors from the Early Modern period: Reginald Scot, John Webster and Francis Hutchinson, who all wrote about witchcraft in different centuries ie from the late 16th ...
Niall Johnson
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Behavioral Sciences &the Law, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This is a retrospective case study of an antisemitic lone actor terrorist who completed the deadliest attack against the Jewish community in American history. The analysis through the lens of the Terrorist Radicalization Assessment Protocol (TRAP‐18) finds that 72% of the warning indicators were present, including four proximal warning ...
Molly Amman, Julia Kupper, J. Reid Meloy
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, 2020 This is an accepted manuscript of an article published by the Museum of Magic & Witchcraft in The Enquiring Eye, on 30/04/2020 The accepted version of the publication may differ from the final published version.On a visit to the Museum of Witchcraft and
Fenton, Louise
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International Journal of Gynecology &Obstetrics, EarlyView.Abstract The term femicide, widely used in reference to the “killing of a woman because she is a woman,” has been questioned on the ground that it implies unequal dignity of men and women victims of gender related death. This position called for an analysis of the terminology used to describe and define the various forms of killing of women and men. We
Giuseppe Benagiano +3 more
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Males, masculine honor and witch hunting in seventeenth-century Germany
, 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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