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Witch-hunting and witch belief in the Gàidhealtachd [PDF]
, 2008 In 1727, an old woman from Loth in Sutherland was brought before a blazing fire in Dornoch. The woman, traditionally known as Janet Home, warmed herself, thinking the fire had been lit to take the chill from her bones and not, as was actually intended, to burn her to death. Or so the story goes.
Henderson, L.
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The Witching Body: Ontology and Physicality of the Witch
Open Philosophy, 2022 These considerations illuminate an ontology of the witch by first disclosing how “witch,” as a linguistic gesture, carries a world of meaning, ethics, and a culture of being originating in the body. Witches and witchcraft speak to a communal situatedness
Devereux Katherine R.
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Psychological health in marginalised women living in witches’ camps in Ghana [PDF]
Scientific ReportsAnxiety and depression are prevalent mental health issues, particularly affecting older women in vulnerable circumstances. In Ghana, older women accused of witchcraft endure severe mental health challenges due to stigmatisation and isolation.
Yakubu H. Yakubu +4 more
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Witches on Facebook: Mediatization of Neo-Paganism
Social Media and Society, 2020 This article investigates the mediatization of neo-Paganism by analyzing how Estonian witches use Facebook groups and Messenger and how Facebook’s affordances shape the neo-Paganism practiced in those spaces. This is a small-scale exploratory study based
Berit Renser, Katrin Tiidenberg
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Conjuring legitimacy: Shakespeare’s Macbeth as contemporary English politics [PDF]
Filozofija i Društvo, 2020 The text provides a political reading of Shakespeare’s Macbeth, claiming that the play is responding to the curious connection between witchcraft and state power in the preceding century, as well as contemporary political events.
Đorđević Edvard
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Déploiements artistiques : objet-livre et écoféminisme
Itinéraires, 2022 Based on a corpus emanating from French artists, consisting of the book Le guide pratique du féminisme divinatoire and the documentary accompanying its 2011 version, Sorcières, mes sœurs by French artist Camille Ducellier, as well as the “precious works”
Émeline Chauvet
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Witches in Fairy Tales and their Use in Therapy. Interview with Gréta Vaskor
Martor, 2023 Fairy tales (and other narratives) are used as therapeutic tools in therapy. Stories about witches and magic, including spells, mobilize the emotions and the mind of the patient and help them providing patterns and suggesting solutions. This interview is
Gréta Vaskor , Tünde Komáromi
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Reimagining Witches in Contemporary Hindi Cinema: A Study of “Bulbbul” and “Roohi”
IAFOR Journal of Arts & Humanities, 2022 Witch-hunting, an age-old practice in India, survives in a myriad of avatars in rural and urban areas. These avatars of witch-hunting have often been trapped in the binary of Indian modernity and Indian traditions, with the latter often embracing ...
Riya Mukherjee, Suraj Gunwant
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Masallardaki “Cadı” Prototipinin Türk Televizyon Dizilerine Yansıması: Yasak Elma Dizisi Örneği
Communicata, 2023 Masallar, sözlü anlatı türünün en eski örneklerinden birini oluşturur. Nesilden nesile aktarılan masallar, günümüze kadar gelerek önemini ve değerini korumayı başarmışlardır.
Nazlı Şentürk, Gülsemin Mısırlı
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Etudes Epistémè, 2020 Over a hundred years have elapsed since Clarence Andrews first wrote that Richard Brome’s “reworking [in The Late Lancashire Witches] has made a worse play out of a very poor one”.
Athéna Efstathiou-Lavabre
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