Witchcraft
Witchcraft (or witchery) is the practice of magical skills, spells, and abilities. Witchcraft is a broad term that varies culturally and societally, and thus can be difficult to define with precision. Historically, the most common meaning is the use of supernatural means to cause harm to the innocent; this remains the meaning in most traditional cultures worldwide, notably the Indigenous cultures of Asia, Latin America, Africa, the African diaspora, and Indigenous Nations in the Americas.In the Philippines, as in many of these cultures, witches are viewed as those opposed to the sacred Indigenous religions. In contrast, anthropologists writing about healers …
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MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 15 October 2024 English
Through detailed analyses of nineteenth-century spirit photography, horror films, ghost-hunting reality television, and the viral internet phenomenon “Slender Man,” Poetics of the Paranormal shows how the figure of the ghost …
angels, demons, psychic visions, telekinesis, witchcraft, zombies, fairies, vam- pires, and other entities …
MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 17 September 2024 English
At the height of its popularity in the late nineteenth century, absinthe reigned in the bars, cafés, and restaurants of France and its colonial empire. Yet by the time it …
“sorceress” rather than “green fairy,” as its “witchcraft is bringing illness, ruin and dishonour to thousands …
MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 18 June 2024 English
The word "pharmacopoeia" has come to have many meanings, although it is commonly understood to be a book describing approved compositions and standards for drugs. In 1813 the Royal College …
Francis Clune explored the relationship between witchcraft, the shaman, and what he described as ‘active’ …
IFA: International Federation on Ageing · 23 May 2024 English
The pursuit and advancement of the principle of intergenerational solidarity would ensure that the rights of people of all ages are protected and promoted at all times to secure a …
including killing older women on false accusations of witchcraft in parts of Africa. e. The SDG 17 commitment … including killing older women on false accusations of witchcraft in parts of Africa and Asia. 2. Include the voice …
MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 14 May 2024 English
Mary MacLeod was a rarity: a female bard in seventeenth-century Scotland. A chronicle of travel through the Scottish Hebrides, More Richly in Earth explores MacLeod’s life and legacy, preserved within …
Witness XVII Abetted by Cosmic Forces: Witchcraft XVIII Lying Men/Things … was “usually re- served for those accused of witchcraft.” 13. Opinions about Mary’s worth as …
DDN: Dundurn Press · 13 February 2024 English
His wife died before their second son turned one. How can he keep her memory alive when there’s so much he wants to forget?There was a time before his wife …
prime each of the letters. I was fascinat- ed by witchcraft but had absolutely no working knowledge of it …
CHRC: Canadian Human Rights Commission · 16 August 2023 English
It is enshrined in both international and domestic law, including in: the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms; the Universal Declaration of Human Rights; the International Covenant of Civil and …
was framed as being superstitious or a form of witchcraft. They were depicted as inferior beings to justify …
DDN: Dundurn Press · 6 June 2023 English
Embodiment coach Tara Teng helps us untangle ourselves from centuries of body-based oppression built into our societal systems. When we embrace our relationship with our bodies, we can take back …
munity and two hundred people were accused of witchcraft, result- ing in the death of a number of people …
DDN: Dundurn Press · 9 May 2023 English
A world-famous wine writer’s quest to clear her name after an onslaught of sexist online attacks and find love after the sudden crumbling of her twenty-year marriage. Natalie MacLean’s experience …
Ann Hibbins, who encourages her to practise “witchcraft” — learning about healing herbs. Hibbins is …
CBA: Canadian Bar Association · 5 May 2023 English
Fifty percent of women in prison are Indigenous.3 This level of mass incarceration of Indigenous people in prison follows on the heels of over 100 years of residential “schools” (which …
told that to practice Indigenous culture was witchcraft and that Christianity and the Catholic faith …
