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Sorcery and Sorcerers in the Old French Epic
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Powerful Magic: Sorcery, Magic, Witchcraft and the Spanish Inquisition as Catalysts for Women's Power
… paper investigates women's use of witchcraft and sorcery as a means of obtaining power and purpose in predominantly patriarchal Spain. By relying on Spanish Inquisition records scholars have been able to discover how women challenged gender definitions. Using these records I argue that women in …
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The Wishgrant
… Feature Screenplay</p> <p>It’s the 1930s, and sorcery is illegal. But an iron-willed foundry worker must risk it all to save his father—and his only chance lies with a witty sorcerer with a curse to break and a living skeleton with her own secrets.</p>
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The treatment of the epileptic insane by the administration of borax, belladonna, bromide of camphor, and bromide of potassium
… the shape which separated it from Witchcraft and Sorcery, civil writings incidentally spoke of it, or gave it a name which in its meaning described the affection.
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Towards a Missiological Model for Worldview Transformation among Adherents to African Traditional Religion in Yorubaland
… pre-Christian practices such as divination and sorcery are reported, especially during periods of personal crises. This study sought to understand the influence of the traditional worldview on the practices of divination and sorcery and to develop a model that would move the Yoruba Adventists …
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Thou Shall Not Suffer a Witch to Live: A History of Witchcraft in Scotland During the Reigns of James VI and Charles I, 1563-1649
… the art they practiced was called witchcraft, sorcery, magic or science. | Page 88 missing in original.
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The Question of Genre Classification in the Drama Series “Ubizo: The Calling (2007)”
… some African spiritual practices are likened to sorcery due to the obsession with madness and ghosts. I used Indigenous Knowledge Systems together with genre analysis to arrive at my findings which were important in shedding light to the fact that some genres become less effective when they have …
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An exploration of the cultural context and consequences of perceptions of illness and health-seeking behaviour of the Baloch
… or supernatural causes: spirit possession, sorcery or evil eye. In contemporary Balochistan, despite the availability of the basic health care system in the majority of Baloch settlements, for all practical purposes, Baloch use their traditional medical practices alongside biomedicine. These …
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"Halal" Intimacy: Love, Marriage and Polygamy in Contemporary Malaysia
… in divorce, or covertly confronted through sorcery. In Malay polygamy, more therefore means less.
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Mujeres de mal vivir: Gender, religion, and the politics of power in colonial Guatemala, 1650-1750
… The examination of women's practices of healing, sorcery, sexual witchcraft and popular devotional acts revealed opportunities for women's partial cultural and symbolic autonomy in everyday life in Santiago de Guatemala. Women reinforced their power through public displays and informal social ties …
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Ambiguity in the workplace: some aspects of the negotiation and structuration of asymmetrical relations
… the consultancy process on a model of primitive sorcery as cultural adjustment; cultural ownership of criteria for organizational membership is examined through formal and informal induction processes; the capacity of humour to function as a non-real framework for resistance to organizational …
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Milton and the Zohar
… the 'evil eye'; Adramelec and Balaam; the sorcery of Balak (the demonic bird). Chapter Five continues with an investigation of the left-hand path or sitra-ahra focusing on: hell as a locality; hell as a psychological reality within the individual; hell as the 'shadow' within the …
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Past visions, present lives: sociality and locality in a Torres Strait community
… thought to be associated with head-taking and sorcery. The image of the sorcerer is itself contentious, appearing partly as a moral Other, and partly as a source of local power. Such dynamics of difference appear as integral to contemporary social life on Warraber. Differing Christian …
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'May God Cure You': Contemporary Egyptian Therapeutic Landscapes Between Qur'anic Healing And Psychiatry
… therapy of jinn exorcism and counter-sorcery that is rooted in centuries-old Islamic practices of healing, all the while developing them into new configurations. During the same period, heated public debates stirred by the emergence of Qur'anic healing have occurred, debates in which …
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Wanbel: Conflict, Reconciliation and Personhood among the Sam People, Madang Province
… lack of wanbel causes barren gardens, sickness, sorcery, and death; conversely, being wanbel brings about bountiful gardens, healthy families, and access to “development.” In the vernacular, this state of good and harmonious relations is articulated in four ways: pari beli (“good insides”), pari …
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A novel: Bloodlines and exegesis: In the blood: mothering and othering
… peace with her past. But the island simmers with sorcery, religious fervour and belligerent ex-pats, and when violence spills into her own backyard, Beth reaches a defining moment and chooses where she really belongs: with her family. Interwoven with Beth’s narrative is the story of her parents’ …
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Khmer Ways of Seeing, Migration and Divinatory Improvisation in Phnom Penh
… present oneself as a desirable person. Magic and sorcery can be used as “weapons” by people whose position is vulnerable and threatened by unknown actors or forces. The ethnography sheds light on the improvisation of divinatory authority within a context of uncertainty about the past and present, …
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