Not every New Guinea community practices sorcery or acknowledges witchcraft. |
|
Some of these women come to the mission claiming that they had been accused of witchcraft. |
|
There was just no way his disappearance could have happened beyond black magic or witchcraft. |
|
He believes absolutely in the objective reality of the supernatural world and of witchcraft and magic. |
|
There has been a resurgence of the practice of African magic and witchcraft in a number of Kenyan communities. |
|
These serials help perpetuate superstitions and blind beliefs in witchcraft and sorcery, in magic and animism. |
|
Like Meridiana, her attitude to nature is mystical, and she practices witchcraft. |
|
The way I practice witchcraft has changed a lot, I'm a lot less pedantic now, I'm a lot more intuitive. |
|
It was regarded as an aid to eye sight and used as a cure against witchcraft and evil spirits. |
|
On this part of the Yorkshire coast in among the amusement arcades and the history, there's still talk of witchcraft and magic. |
|
It was not until 1951 that the first practitioners of modern day witchcraft became known. |
|
I don't know whether you believe in witchcraft, sorcery, black magic, and all that kind of thing. |
|
Brabantio believes Othello to have used magic and witchcraft to summon Desdemona from her home. |
|
The result is witchcraft practised as an occult art, operating primarily through spells and curses. |
|
The misconceptions include black magic, witchcraft, evil eye and being possessed by a spirit. |
|
In the practice of witchcraft, spirits are summoned and called to stay in a circle until needed to fight off bad spirits. |
|
The counter measures aimed at combating witchcraft often involved sympathetic magic that was aimed at hurting the witch physically. |
|
Predictably enough the game follows the same storyline as the movie and tells of Potter's fourth year at the school of witchcraft and wizardry. |
|
Over the years, it has attracted students of all kinds, and I mean all kinds, including those of witchcraft and wizardry. |
|
If there was a school for witchcraft and wizardry, I'd sign up in a heartbeat. |
|
|
Characters might think this is some sort of wizardry or witchcraft but it is actually an optical illusion. |
|
It is a place that is full of spells and curses, where powerful charms work their magic, and everything is witchcraft and wizardry. |
|
Edmund and his wife were the only two people who knew of the family's secret, that they knew the art of witchcraft and wizardry. |
|
Harry is an 11-year-old boy unaware his roots lie in the magical world of witchcraft and wizardry. |
|
Thirdly, English witchcraft beliefs made the suspects very individualistic. |
|
They thought it brought good luck, fertility, and protection from witchcraft, and was an antidote to poison. |
|
Nowhere is the documentation as rich as the records generated by the witchcraft investigations of the seventeenth century. |
|
Medieval witchcraft was not a rebellion against orthodoxy so much as a continuation of heathen impulses. |
|
Wicca, witchcraft, paganism, whatever you want to call it, is more like an attunement with the forces of nature, a response to them. |
|
In general, Hindu practices, and sati in particular, are repeatedly characterized as demonic in a manner similar to European witchcraft. |
|
Joan lifted a siege and went on to offer the hope of freedom for her country before being burned at the stake for alleged witchcraft. |
|
The movie is brimming with witchcraft and wizardry, temptation and all manner of nasty people killing, maiming and thieving. |
|
The growth of scepticism about witchcraft was part and parcel of modern secularism. |
|
The universal colonization called globalization, resembling and partaking of witchcraft, is a topic for another day. |
|
Their lifestyle strictly forbids the use of microtechnology and other such witchcraft. |
|
This tale goes back hundreds of years to a time when cats were associated with witchcraft and evil spirits. |
|
All of the priests I interviewed saw witchcraft as an intrinsic evil of the post-colonial economy. |
|
It was explained that the healer had nothing to do with black magic or witchcraft. |
|
Sorcery, miracle, witchcraft, mysticism, idol-worship, etc. are satanic acts and people accused to be involved in them would be killed. |
|
Medicine and witchcraft, pharmacology and demonology, reason and unreason struck an odd alliance. |
|
|
Another legacy of the nobility to filter down to the streets is a fondness for witchcraft and sorcery. |
|
Used in shamanism, witchcraft, and even poisonous murder, nightshades have a history of both mystical danger and scientific caution. |
|
Although it has been illegal for a long time, obeah, the traditional witchcraft of the Caribbean, still exists. |
|
This edition will thus serve as a valuable point of comparison to the study of witchcraft and renaissance occultism. |
|
It wasn't until 1951 that the last laws remaining on the statute book against witchcraft were repealed. |
|
In August, he was hanged on Gallows Hill, one of 19 people executed for witchcraft. |
|
If only the Bishop were to die through some witchcraft, she would be able to take possession of the rings, the pendants and carcanets. |
|
Pete claims they can put a curse on you similar to the curses or hexes described by voodoo, witchcraft, or a good mummy story. |
|
The cloak of organizational rationality is lifted to reveal sorcery, superstition, and the suspicion of witchcraft. |
|
Together, they amount to a substantial critique of the history and historiography of witchcraft, sexuality and religion in early modern Europe. |
|
To me, that means clinical psychology, not astrology, incantations, witchcraft, or palmistry. |
|
Superstition, witchcraft and the paranormal have always been deeply rooted in Indonesian culture. |
|
The book is full of local flavour and includes stories of ghosts, witchcraft and mermaids, close encounters, poltergeists and alien big cats. |
|
For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness is as iniquity and idolatry. |
|
She was a confirmed Buddhist when I left her but by that time I had gone the way into witchcraft and the occult. |
|
Even at this point there was still a misfit between the diabolical conspiracy theory and the popular conception of witchcraft. |
|
His book will be of great use as an introduction to witchcraft studies for undergraduates and for the general reader. |
|
There is a proliferation of religious discourses centering on spirits, spirit possession, and witchcraft. |
|
This article examines the epistemological certainties and uncertainties of Akan spirit possession and witchcraft knowledge. |
|
Other causes may be the evil eye, witchcraft, possession by an evil spirit, or a curse by a sorcerer or an offended neighbour. |
|
|
The crabbedness of old age or misfortune was evidently looked upon as witchcraft. |
|
In the popular consciousness, however, paganism and witchcraft have come to be associated with black magic, foul deeds, even devil-worship. |
|
No one really knew what the secrets were but most thought the whole family was cursed and were involved with the Devil and witchcraft. |
|
Some belief also existed in different types of witchcraft and magic potions for healing. |
|
In the early Middle Ages popular superstition began to associate witchcraft with demonic possession and the rejection of God. |
|
Newspaper editor Laura Kincaid's investigation of the case and the small town uncovers a history of witchcraft and demonology. |
|
A number of your films contain the theme or subject of psychic phenomena as well as witchcraft and magic or what you might term occult subjects. |
|
Enchanters and enchantresses are people who possess sorcery, witchcraft, and either white or black magic. |
|
During the Middle Ages, Europeans used walnuts to combat fevers, witchcraft, epileptic fits and even to prevent lightning. |
|
If we were seated around a fire and an owl hooted or a bush-baby cried in the dark, witchcraft was blamed and the narration of folk tales was abandoned. |
|
Later, Christensen takes another break from the action to cut to a close-up of a different actress portraying an elderly woman suspected of witchcraft. |
|
Katrina, who was hung for witchcraft, is trapped in a woodland inferno between the two worlds. |
|
The herb could be worn about the person to ward off witchcraft and sorcery and was also hung about doors and windows to keep evil away from the house. |
|
This suggests that the sexual aspect of the narratives was largely a trope for the strong desires that were central to both malefic witchcraft and the Evil Eye. |
|
I think a lot of people who are drawn to witchcraft sometimes will get a tattoo, or mark themselves in some way to denote a rite of passage or an experience. |
|
In the Middle Ages it was regarded as a charm against witchcraft. |
|
Most cases of seventeenth-century witchcraft seemed to occur in villages, not in a busy provincial town with a cultured, educated and wealthy population. |
|
The belief in mental illness, as something other than man's trouble in getting along with his fellow man, is the proper heir to the belief in demonology and witchcraft. |
|
Even seminal fluid has been treated as a love philtre or prophylactic in witchcraft, and administered by Aborigines to dying or enfeebled members of their community. |
|
The foregoing analysis supports the importance of the witch trials in the history of women, and also reasserts the importance of women in the history of witchcraft. |
|
|
A common manifestation of witchcraft attacks are witch familiars such as ghosts, demons, evil spirits and tokoloshes disturbing a house or attacking individuals. |
|
At the same time, demonic possession increased dramatically, probably because demonism in general and witchcraft in particular were preoccupations of the age. |
|
For the first time, J.K. Rowling's novel proceeds in a manner that assumes that the reader is more or less familiar with her magical world of wizards and witchcraft. |
|
Where the author lets readers down is in her too often reductionist effort to have the frontier wars be the explanation of the 1692 witchcraft outbreak. |
|
An accusation of witchcraft is vague enough to serve as a kind of catchall for discontent. |
|
There is no black magic or witchcraft behind this self-help treatment. |
|
The jurors of our sovereign lord and lady present that he hath wickedly and feloniously used certain detestable arts, called witchcraft and sorceries. |
|
Of course those old Bill Maher appearances and the talk of witchcraft helped a bit, too. |
|
The Motu believed in witchcraft and sorcery, but they did not practice it. |
|
Following the outbreak of witchcraft accusations in Salem, Phips appointed Stoughton chief justice of the newly formed court of oyer and terminer. |
|
He seeks to understand the truth behind the stories of good and bad angels, magic, apparitions, vampires, witchcraft, possession by demons, and the dead who come back to life. |
|
Sometimes old women are accused of witchcraft, particularly in rural Ghana. |
|
It was also in this bull that Pope John officially declared witchcraft to be heresy, and thus it could be tried under the Inquisition. |
|
In many cultures, bats are popularly associated with darkness, death, witchcraft and malevolence. |
|
In many cultures, including in Europe, bats are associated with darkness, death, witchcraft, and malevolence. |
|
It has long been associated in popular culture and literature with witchcraft. |
|
Yet at the same time, women were also vulnerable to incrimination and persecution, as belief in witchcraft increased. |
|
Issues of witchcraft mainly remain as speculations based on superstitions within families. |
|
This is said to house a total of around 1,000 people accused of witchcraft. |
|
During early modern Europe, a massive moral panic regarding witchcraft swept across Europe and later the European colonies in North America. |
|
|
The secrecy and humming noises emanating from their experimental parlour led to accusations of witchcraft. |
|
But, reader, I claim responsible government in the Colonies as endowed with witchcraft or wizardcraft on this particular ground. |
|
You might be hunted down and beaten, or accused of witchcraft. |
|
It was a time of cultural change and paranormal is on the rise with Satanism, witchcraft and Bigfoot sightings. |
|
Like half-conjugal bodies joined at the waist, the twin plots together constitute a single, prosthetically unified witchcraft tragedy. |
|
The authors of the study argue that this is one reason why the belief in witchcraft persists. |
|
In Ghana, women are often accused of witchcraft and attacked by neighbours. |
|
It was reported on May 21, 2008 that in Kenya, a mob had burnt to death at least 11 people accused of witchcraft. |
|
In Malawi it is also common practice to accuse children of witchcraft and many children have been abandoned, abused and even killed as a result. |
|
These pastors have been involved in the torturing and even killing of children accused of witchcraft. |
|
Every year, hundreds of people in the Central African Republic are convicted of witchcraft. |
|
Prior to the witch trials, nearly 300 men and women had been suspected of partaking in witchcraft and over 30 of these people were hanged. |
|
Spanish Inquisitors viewed witchcraft as a problem that could be cured simply through confession. |
|
Belief in the supernatural is strong in all parts of India, and lynchings for witchcraft are reported in the press from time to time. |
|
Saudi Arabia continues to use the death penalty for sorcery and witchcraft. |
|
In 2006 Fawza Falih Muhammad Ali was condemned to death for practicing witchcraft. |
|
In April 2009, a Saudi woman Amina Bint Abdulhalim Nassar was arrested and later sentenced to death for practicing witchcraft and sorcery. |
|
The Church did not invent the idea of witchcraft as a potentially harmful force whose practitioners should be put to death. |
|
Historians Keith Thomas and his student Alan Macfarlane study witchcraft by combining historical research with concepts drawn from anthropology. |
|
They argued that English witchcraft, like African witchcraft, was endemic rather than epidemic. |
|
|
Becoming king in 1603, James I Brought to England and Scotland continental explanations of witchcraft. |
|
He thought they threatened his political power so he laid the foundation for witchcraft and occultism policies, especially in Scotland. |
|
Step children and children seen as different for a wide range of reasons are particularly at risk of witchcraft accusations. |
|
A 2006 recommendation to record abuse cases linked to witchcraft centrally has not yet been implemented. |
|
As in most European countries, women in Italy were more likely suspected of witchcraft than men. |
|
In the 16th century, Italy had a high portion of witchcraft trials involving love magic. |
|
Up until 1630, the majority of women accused of witchcraft were prostitutes. |
|
The Chinese concept of chi, a form of energy that often manipulated in witchcraft, is known as bioplasma in Russian practices. |
|
The dominant societal concern those practicing witchcraft was not whether paganism was effective, but whether it could cause harm. |
|
Peasants in Russian and Ukrainian societies often shunned witchcraft, unless they needed help against supernatural forces. |
|
Males were targeted more, because witchcraft was associated with societal deviation. |
|
The escape came as such a surprise that one contemporary chronicler accused the bishop of witchcraft. |
|
One of his most famous pieces, The Confession of Isobel Gowdie, spoke up for a woman executed for witchcraft in 17th Century Scotland. |
|
Cromwell was charged not only with treason but with being a sacramentary, a radical form of heresy associated with witchcraft. |
|
He was more dangerous than the plump satisfied ones, he was so sure of the value of his witchcraft, the holy oils and chrisms and unctions. |
|
Strictly speaking, the belief in demonianism was distinct from that in witchcraft. |
|
Whether it was primarily the result of allegations of conspiracy, adultery, or witchcraft remains a matter of debate among historians. |
|
Several people were convicted of using witchcraft to send storms against James's ship, most notably Agnes Sampson. |
|
Many Wiccans believe in magic, a manipulative force exercised through the practice of witchcraft or sorcery. |
|
This practice seemingly derives from a line in Aradia, Charles Leland's supposed record of Italian witchcraft. |
|
|
The concept of witchcraft and the belief in its existence have existed throughout recorded history. |
|
It is most notably practiced in the Wiccan and modern witchcraft traditions, and no longer practices in secrecy. |
|
Beliefs related to witchcraft and magic in these cultures were at times influenced by the prevailing Western concepts. |
|
There has also existed in popular belief the concept of white witches and white witchcraft, which is strictly benevolent. |
|
Accusations of witchcraft were often combined with other charges of heresy against such groups as the Cathars and Waldensians. |
|
In the modern Western world, witchcraft accusations have often accompanied the satanic ritual abuse moral panic. |
|
Children in some regions of the world, such as parts of Africa, are also vulnerable to violence related to witchcraft accusations. |
|
Other individual practitioners and writers such as Paul Huson also claimed inheritance to surviving traditions of witchcraft. |
|
Interest was intensified, however, by Gerald Gardner's claim in 1954 in Witchcraft Today that a form of witchcraft still existed in England. |
|
The ritual format of contemporary Stregheria is roughly similar to that of other Neopagan witchcraft religions such as Wicca. |
|
Traditional witchcraft is a term used to refer to a variety of contemporary forms of witchcraft. |
|
Some forms of traditional witchcraft are the Feri Tradition, Cochrane's Craft and the Sabbatic craft. |
|
The Feri Tradition is a modern traditional witchcraft practice founded by Victor Henry Anderson and his wife Cora. |
|
In contemporary times luciferian witches exist within traditional witchcraft. |
|
If we could make use of these kinds of witchcraft, our country would rapidly progress in knowledge of every kind. |
|
It is also believed that witchcraft can be transmitted to children by feeding. |
|
The two courts convicted 29 people of the capital felony of witchcraft. |
|
No batteries, motors, muffler bearings or witchcraft involved. |
|
Police found various items, such as tomes and pieces of paper with sorcerous words written on them, as well as talisman and herbs used in witchcraft. |
|
Russell's textbook on witchcraft, the final chapters of which now seem dated, Bailey concludes the book with a recent overview of neopaganism, the Craft, and Wicca. |
|
|
Accusations of witchcraft are sometimes linked to personal disputes, jealousy, and conflicts between neighbors or family over land or inheritance. |
|
In 1662, before reputable witnesses, Gowdie gave a series of confessions to witchcraft that emerged into public awareness only two centuries later. |
|
The law uses capital punishment only in cases of witchcraft and poisoning. |
|
In 1659 ten women were accused of diverse acts of witchcraft by Dumfries Kirk Session although the Kirk Session minutes itself records nine witches. |
|
Probably the most famous depiction of witchcraft in literature is in Shakespeare's 1606 play Macbeth featuring the three witches and their cauldron. |
|
With the help of local tribunals, such as in Venice, the two institutions investigated a woman's religious behaviors when she was accused of witchcraft. |
|
He accredited and repeated stories of apparitions and witchcraft. |
|
A local newspaper informed that more than 50 people were killed in two Highlands provinces of Papua New Guinea in 2008 for allegedly practicing witchcraft. |
|
There have even been child murders associated with witchcraft beliefs. |
|
In 1645, Springfield, Massachusetts, experienced America's first accusations of witchcraft when husband and wife Hugh and Mary Parsons accused each other of witchcraft. |
|
At America's first witch trial, Hugh was found innocent, while Mary was acquitted of witchcraft but sentenced to be hanged for the death of her child. |
|
Toad doctors were also credited with the ability to undo evil witchcraft. |
|
Likewise, alleged witchcraft was not isolated to New England. |
|
Due to negative connotations associated with witchcraft, many Wiccans continue the traditional practice of secrecy, concealing their faith for fear of persecution. |
|
One of the most often repeated myths is that people found guilty of witchcraft were rolled down Slieau Whallian, a hill near St John's, in a barrel. |
|
It posits a theosophical conflict between good and evil, where witchcraft was generally evil and often associated with the Devil and Devil worship. |
|
The story is filled with colorful tales of love and witchcraft. |
|
This left many women on a desperate quest for marriage leaving them vulnerable to the accusation of witchcraft whether they took part in it or not. |
|
Suspicion of modern medicine due to beliefs about illness being due to witchcraft also continues in many countries to this day, with tragic healthcare consequences. |
|
People turned to witchcraft as a means to support themselves. |
|
|
Feng shui, an influence of Filipino Chinese culture, is also not classified as witchcraft as it is cnsidered a separate realm of belief altogether. |
|
There was a political dimension as well, as accusations of witchcraft were levied against the enemies of Henry VII, who was exerting more and more control over Wales. |
|
Belief in witchcraft continues to be present today in some societies and accusations of witchcraft are the trigger of serious forms of violence, including murder. |
|