Witchcraft Definition–noun | 1. | the art or practices of a witch; sorcery; magic. | | 2. | magical influence; witchery. | |
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the exercise or invocation of alleged supernatural powers to control people or events, practices typically involving sorcery or magic. Although defined differently in disparate historical and ...
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Academics tend to dismiss contemporary witchcraft (known as "Wicca"), at the heart of the modern Neo-Pagan movement, as a silly fad or an incompetent technology, but some now understand it as an ...
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Some pharmacological cults do not rise much above the level of witchcraft, with ceremonies expressing the participants' insecurities, anxieties, and hostilities. This is particularly true of cults ...
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The same dichotomy between sorcery and witchcraft exists (sometimes more ambiguously) in the beliefs of many African and indigenous peoples throughout the world. Again, witches are typically seen as ...
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Aidan A. Kelly, A History of Modern Witchcraft, 1939-1964 (1991); and T.M. Luhrmann, Persuasions of the Witch's Craft: Ritual Magic in Contemporary England (1989, reissued 1994), provide thoughtful ...
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Lucy Mair, Witchcraft (1969), is a useful general introduction with emphasis on African examples. Witchcraft and cannibalism are discussed in W. Arens, The Man-Eating Myth: Anthropology & ...
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Robin Briggs, Witches & Neighbors: The Social and Cultural Context of European Witchcraft (1996, reissued 1998), is perhaps the best book on the subject; and Alan C. Kors and Edward Peters (eds.), ...
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a male witch. See witchcraft.Wicca
a predominantly Western movement whose followers practice witchcraft and nature worship and who see it as a religion based on pre-Christian traditions of northern and western Europe. It spread ...
Skelton, Robin
British-born Canadian poet, scholar, and witch who published scores of books, founded the creative writing department at the University of Victoria, B.C., cofounded the Malahat Review literary ...
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Sowetan - Found Nov. 5, 2008
Pupils saw red when principal Nokuthula Gloria Madlala was reinstated after they had accused her of practising witchcraft.
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Akwa Ibom Witchcraft Riddle
AllAfrica.com - Found Nov. 3, 2008
... being allegedly identified as or confessing to having witchcraft. Though witchcraft is not new in Nigeria, child-witchcraft, it appears, is...
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Group calls for witchcraft pardons
UPI - Found Oct. 31, 2008
... to be issued for the thousands of women and men executed for witchcraft in Britain prior to the 1735 Witchcraft Act, The Daily Telegraph...
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Group calls for witchcraft pardons
Macro World Investor - Found Oct. 31, 2008
Leaders of a British campaign said they plan to present the justice secretary with a petition calling for those executed for witchcraft to be
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Tanzania: Witchcraft Beliefs Shock TFF President
AllAfrica.com - Found Oct. 31, 2008
The Citizen (Dar es Salaam) The Tanzania Football Federation (TFF) President, Leodegar Tenga, said he was shocked by witchcraft beliefs exhibited in
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Angola: MPs Comfort Children Accused of Witchcraft
AllAfrica.com - Found Oct. 31, 2008
Thursday Kuzola Orphanage in Luanda with the main objective of providing comfort to the 22 children interned there accused of witchcraft.
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Akwa Ibom Witchcraft Riddle
Calibre Macro World - Found Nov. 3, 2008
... being allegedly identified as or confessing to having witchcraft. Though witchcraft is not new in Nigeria, child-witchcraft, it appears, is...
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MEC speaks out on crime
Sowetan - Found 4 hours ago
Crime in Mpumalanga revolves mostly around firearms, mob justice, liquor outlets, the use of drugs, witchcraft, taxi violence, organised crime and
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Jihad Against Free Speech
AINA - Found 1 hour ago
... and the fact that the European Union requested Iran to drop the death penalty in its penal code for the crimes of apostasy, heresy, and ...
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Book review | "The Widows of Eastwick": A bewitching update on three ...
Seattle Times - Found 3 hours ago
Nearly everything is moderated for the widows: their sexuality, physical health and mobility, and their witchcraft.
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