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Witchcraft As a Social Diagnosis
Language: en
Pages: 168
Authors: Roxane Richter
Categories: Political Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-02-07 - Publisher: Lexington Books

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This book examines medical outreach in the condemned witches' village of Gnani in Ghana, focusing on clashes between traditional beliefs, religious tenets, and
Encounters with Witchcraft
Language: en
Pages: 243
Authors: Norman N. Miller
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-04-26 - Publisher: State University of New York Press

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Encounters with Witchcraft is a personal story of a young man's fascination with African witchcraft discovered first in a trek across East Africa and the Congo.
Witchcraft and Demonology in Hungary and Transylvania
Language: en
Pages: 419
Authors: Gábor Klaniczay
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-11-29 - Publisher: Springer

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This book provides a selection of studies on witchcraft and demonology by those involved in an interdisciplinary research group begun in Hungary thirty years ag
Deadly Words
Language: en
Pages: 284
Authors: Jeanne Favret-Saada
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 1980-12-04 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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This 1980 book examines witchcraft beliefs and experiences in the Bocage, a rural area of western France. It also introduced a powerful theoretical attitude tow
In the Devil's Snare
Language: en
Pages: 450
Authors: Mary Beth Norton
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2007-12-18 - Publisher: Vintage

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Award-winning historian Mary Beth Norton reexamines the Salem witch trials in this startlingly original, meticulously researched, and utterly riveting study. In