... into how violence in war structures peacetime violence by highlighting how war alters ontological positions or worldviews, such as those concerning the relevance of threat of harm through spiritual means. It presents a detailed case study of sorcery accusations and related violence before, during and after...

... Rachelle Grebeg Aksara Arcana’s genealogical critique of Acri Andrea Hunter Thomas M Ong Walter J orthography and Balinese articulations of language and power shadow theater sorcery and healing balian traditional healers tutur and tutur literature defined Zurbuchen Mary S Hornbacher Annette...

...This chapter discusses the origins and development of sword and sorcery in the pulps and fanzines of the 1930s. It starts with Robert Howard’s Conan the Barbarian stories and reads these stories in relation to contemporaneous fanzine commentary. show an intricate process of worldbuilding whereby...

...This chapter discusses Tooy's enstoolment as the first Saramaka captain of Cayenne, French Guiana on June 30, 2001. It describes the enstoolment celebration and Tooy's admission that he was worried about the envy and the sorcery his new position will inevitably bring. He also admitted that he...

... states are seamlessly combined. Drawing upon the tools of spiritual battle, Pentecostals seek to control the many unseen threats introduced by the global movement of people, products, and images. This chapter considers the Pentecostals' attitudes toward witchcraft, sorcery, and Satan as well...

... autobiographical poem and Da Luko concerning his tattoos and a battle with a friend carried out through sorcery and never openly discussed. These provide illustrations of how individuals engage in self work through imagining, ordering, and finding value in paribadi things. children emotion heart poetry...

...This chapter deals with another set of events, the marginalization of two women through sorcery allegations, backgrounded again by changing economic and social conditions. Here the focus shifts to the targets of gossip and seeks to make sense of their divergent responses to the gossip. The chapter...

... in some respects, he could not simply be disgraced for exerting authority. The solution was to invoke sorcery. And again, the “multiple orders of reality” that background sorcery and its accompanying agents and practices (spirits, spirit mediumship) on Nukulaelae stretched a web of ideological complexity...

... Guadeloupe Hoüel Charles iron Landers John corporeality Snyder Jon R Garraway Doris Hall Gwendolyn Midlo Peabody Sue Pluchon Pierre sorcery superstition rumour Saint Domingue De Certeau Michel Scott James C script Magic Sorcery Language Fidelity Sensibility Emotion Humour Creole...

...This chapter examines the heightened debate about two broad categories of superstition that emerged from courts and university cloisters in the fourteenth century. The first category concerns what we might view as the mainly religious errors of demonic sorcery. The second involves certain seemingly...

... to questions posed by her inquisitor, William of Paris. The other woman, Margueronne of Bellevillette, was arrested in Champagne as part of the group around bishop Guichard of Troyes that was accused of having used sorcery to murder Queen Jeanne of Navarre. These two women were caught up on the edges of larger...

..., they agreed with each other: sorcery was real, and witches deserved to be punished. antiquaries black magic Castlereagh Lord Robert Stewart courts of law France Napoleon scepticism about magic Scotland slavery Witchcraft Act 1736 witches Aberdeenshire clergy education Enlightenment the Ettrick...

...This chapter argues that it is by spreading rumors and dropping hints about sorcery that initiated men maintain their authority over their fellow villagers. Furthermore, talking about sorcery allows people to influence events in ways for which they cannot be held accountable. The chapter argues...

... of attempts to rationalize the “unseen” (gheyb)—that is, to grasp phenomena like sorcery and jinn possession in reasoned, scientific, nonsuperstitious terms. The book also explores how metaphysical experimentation is affected by economic liberalization, the dominance of modern technoscience...

...This chapter examines the question of whether jinn and sorcery exist. A number of invisible entities and realms beyond the sensible material world are featured in Islamic cosmology, as rooted in the Qur'an and hadith. These include not only God but also angels, jinn, heaven and hell, and news...

... Nebula Award New Wave Budrys Algis F&SF Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction Galaxy Hugo Award Knight Damon Luna Phantasmicom Renaissance Ace Books Ashmead Lawrence Haefele Mark sword and sorcery Alexandria Quartet Durrell Dark World Kuttner Durrell Lawrence Farmer Philp Jose...

... early church communal celebrations folk habits spiritual specialists paganism superstitions divination sorcery late antiquity Once when the diocese was celebrating the birthday of the most blessed apostle Peter in a town not far from Noyon, Eligius went to the village to preach the word of God...

...This chapter discusses early accounts of witchcraft, sorcery, and magic in medieval Rus. “Rus” is the name given to the lands of the Eastern Slavs in the medieval accounts of the region that now comprises Ukraine, Belarus, and European Russia. Conventionally, the narrative history of Rus begins...

... using supernatural powers—witchcraft or sorcery, sinners inviting divine retribution, or, in contemporary societies, risk takers failing to identify and manage risks. In contemporary society, public inquiries are used to name and blame those who failed to identify risks and the chilling effects...

...0 16 03 2000 Who could know what pollut ing or dangerous remnant influences you might be going under as you bent and passed under it? From a menstruating woman? A man hot with sorcery materials? A junior? And there were many rules about precedence, order, and well-being that were connected...