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Bloodsucking Witchcraft
Author | : Hugo G. Nutini |
Publsiher | : University of Arizona Press |
Total Pages | : 501 |
Release | : 1993-04 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9780816511976 |
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In the rural areas of south-central Mexico, there are believed to be witches who transform themselves into animals in order to suck the blood from the necks of sleeping infants. This book analyzes beliefs held by the great majority of the population of rural Tlaxcala a generation ago and chronicles its drastic transformation since then. "The most comprehensive statement on this centrally important ethnographic phenomenon in the last forty years. It bears ready comparison with the two great classics, Evans-Pritchard's Witchcraft Among the Azande and Clyde Kluckhohn's Navaho Witchcraft."ÑHenry H. Selby
Bloodsucking Witchcraft
Author | : Hugo G. Nutini |
Publsiher | : University of Arizona Press |
Total Pages | : 512 |
Release | : 1993-04 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0816511977 |
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In the rural areas of south-central Mexico, there are believed to be witches who transform themselves into animals in order to suck the blood from the necks of sleeping infants. This book analyzes beliefs held by the great majority of the population of rural Tlaxcala a generation ago and chronicles its drastic transformation since then. "The most comprehensive statement on this centrally important ethnographic phenomenon in the last forty years. It bears ready comparison with the two great classics, Evans-Pritchard's Witchcraft Among the Azande and Clyde Kluckhohn's Navaho Witchcraft."ÑHenry H. Selby
Woodcutters and Witchcraft
Author | : Mark W. Risjord |
Publsiher | : SUNY Press |
Total Pages | : 224 |
Release | : 2000-03-09 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0791445119 |
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Uncovers the methodological principles that govern interpretive change.
The Oxford Handbook of Witchcraft in Early Modern Europe and Colonial America
Author | : Brian P. Levack |
Publsiher | : OUP Oxford |
Total Pages | : 646 |
Release | : 2013-03-28 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780191648830 |
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The essays in this Handbook, written by leading scholars working in the rapidly developing field of witchcraft studies, explore the historical literature regarding witch beliefs and witch trials in Europe and colonial America between the early fifteenth and early eighteenth centuries. During these years witches were thought to be evil people who used magical power to inflict physical harm or misfortune on their neighbours. Witches were also believed to have made pacts with the devil and sometimes to have worshipped him at nocturnal assemblies known as sabbaths. These beliefs provided the basis for defining witchcraft as a secular and ecclesiastical crime and prosecuting tens of thousands of women and men for this offence. The trials resulted in as many as fifty thousand executions. These essays study the rise and fall of witchcraft prosecutions in the various kingdoms and territories of Europe and in English, Spanish, and Portuguese colonies in the Americas. They also relate these prosecutions to the Catholic and Protestant reformations, the introduction of new forms of criminal procedure, medical and scientific thought, the process of state-building, profound social and economic change, early modern patterns of gender relations, and the wave of demonic possessions that occurred in Europe at the same time. The essays survey the current state of knowledge in the field, explore the academic controversies that have arisen regarding witch beliefs and witch trials, propose new ways of studying the subject, and identify areas for future research.
In the Vortex of Violence
Author | : Gema Kloppe-Santamaría |
Publsiher | : University of California Press |
Total Pages | : 229 |
Release | : 2020-08-18 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780520344020 |
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In the Vortex of Violence examines the uncharted history of lynching in post-revolutionary Mexico. Based on a collection of previously untapped sources, the book examines why lynching became a persistent practice during a period otherwise characterized by political stability and decreasing levels of violence. It explores how state formation processes, as well as religion, perceptions of crime, and mythical beliefs, contributed to shaping people’s understanding of lynching as a legitimate form of justice. Extending the history of lynching beyond the United States, this book offers key insights into the cultural, historical, and political reasons behind the violent phenomenon and its continued practice in Latin America today.
Unwanted Pregnancies and Public Policy
Author | : Héctor Correa |
Publsiher | : Nova Publishers |
Total Pages | : 262 |
Release | : 1994 |
Genre | : Health & Fitness |
ISBN | : 1560721367 |
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Unwanted Pregnancies & Public Policy An International Perspective
The Witch
Author | : Ronald Hutton |
Publsiher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 385 |
Release | : 2017-01-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780300229042 |
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This book sets the notorious European witch trials in the widest and deepest possible perspective and traces the major historiographical developments of witchcraft
Vampire History and Lore
Author | : Stuart A. Kallen |
Publsiher | : Capstone |
Total Pages | : 80 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : Vampires |
ISBN | : 9781601522092 |
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Throughout history vampires have been viewed as hideously repellant, strikingly attractive, dangerously evil, and piteously gloomy. This title explores vampire beliefs from the blood sucking beasts of ancient times to the immortal teen heartthrobs of the twenty-first century.