...KATIA BIANCHINI Witchcraft accusations occur when disproportionate suffering or injustice is blamed on the actions of a witch who is believed to use their supernatural powers for their own ‘evil desires or out of pure malice’ ( Forsyth 2016 : 334). Witchcraft powers are considered to be resisted...

... and witches’ (‘atormenta a los cuerpos con muchas vejaciones, entrando en ellos y dándoles enfermedades, ayudándose de los hechiceros y brujas’). ⁸ De la Cerda’s discussion of witches and witchcraft remained an important treatment of these two subjects throughout the 17th century. (In fact...

... on Braithwaite and D’Costa’s framework of cascades of violence, the paper also tracks the ways in which sorcery discourses, practices and beliefs cascade to war. sorcery witchcraft war violence cascades of violence peace A significant missing element in current theories about how war structures peacetime...

...Stephen Briggs; Andrew Whittaker We undertook a critical review of literature ( Grant and Booth, 2009 ) through searching electronic databases and items retrieved were assessed for relevance. The relationship between religious beliefs in witchcraft and spirit possession and child abuse is complex...

..., they are discriminated against; at worst, they are hunted and often killed for their body parts for witchcraft use. If they survive these attacks, they are very likely to develop skin cancer that is most often untreated, leading to a preventable premature death. However, awareness and activism can help PWAs to lead more...

... attitudes to medical authority and practice during the period in question. In Rochdale, the working-class community remained slow to accept the orthodox challenge to traditional beliefs concerning health and healing. wisewoman working class abortion witchcraft In Britain, the late nineteenth...

...Natalie Kwan [email protected] © The Author 2012. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the German History Society. All rights reserved. 2012 Abstract De lamiis et pythonicis mulieribus, ‘On Witches and Female Soothsayers’, is a witchcraft treatise written in 1489...

... the moral thinking of many pious medical practitioners and laypersons. medical ethics practical divinity astrology magic witchcraft William Perkins was the most influential English theologian of the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. He wrote thirty-seven treatises, some published in his...

... and Conclusions The phallus tree was a well-known phenomenon in Western Europe during the late Middle Ages and the beginning of the Renaissance, and mostly find their roots in the link between infertility and impotence on the one hand, and sorcery and witchcraft on the other. Phallus Mural Middle Ages...

... she predicted future wars, political upheavals and natural disasters. ¹¹ Fielding presents this trio of vatic women, all renowned for practising the darker arts, in part to mock the Repeal's renewed focus on witchcraft as a topic for state legislation. Shipton's centrality in the exhibit...

... and diagnosis of hysteria had a function similar to that found in the persecution of witchcraft: it sought to eradicate the outbursts of nonconforming and emotionally threatening conduct of women. At the beginning of the twentieth century, however, the category virtually disappears from psychiatric nosologies...

...DAVID HARLEY © 1990 The Society for the Social History of Medicine 1990 SUMMARY The belief that midwives were commonly persecuted as witches is widespread in the history of witchcraft and the history of medicine. Although the midwife-witch can be found in the writings of some demonologists...

...In what constitutes one of the few detailed studies of witchcraft in England during the period of the interregnum (1650s), this chapter suggests that witchcraft and witch-hunting continued to play a prominent role in English life, albeit one increasingly contested by ideological opponents...

... in the fields of political science, historical writing, witchcraft, and a great deal else besides. Best known for his contribution to formulating the modern doctrine of sovereignty, Bodin has also been credited with developing the quantity theory of money and with advocating religious toleration at a decidedly...

... through the use of common law forms. charter of 1629 county courts Court of Assistants Court of Common Pleas Court of General Sessions Dominion of New England General Court Puritan law quo warranto Superior Court witchcraft Bradford William Court of Appeals Cushing John Dudley Joseph Hawley...

..., and Revenger. In the The Witch, the plot revolves around witchcraft, which carries the double metaphorical charge of tyranny and treason. Here, the Duke sexualizes conquest and tyranny by marrying the beaten enemy’s daughter, and then forcing her to commit symbolic parricide...

...This chapter examines the elements of magic and witchcraft in the career of English composer George Frideric Handel. It looks at the theme of enchantment discussions about Handel and in Handel's works themselves and investigates how Handel as a public figure and as composer fitted into the Whig...

...This chapter uses an anthropological perspective to frame envy as an exotic cultural performance in relation to superstition, the “evil eye,” witchcraft, or sorcery. It takes an actor-centered perspective and scrutinizes the relational aspects of envy between “enviers” and the “envied...

...From the female slaves accused of concupiscence and witchcraft in colonial Melaka to lauded female preachers and leaders of churches in Tonkin, women in Southeast Asia (as in Europe) posed a number of challenges to the male hierarchy of the Church. Chapter VIII demonstrates how on occasion gender...

...This chapter examines the legal, communal, and individual understandings of witchcraft. Witchcraft, at its most fundamental, involves wishing harm to others. It thus centrally concerns the impact of emotional states on physical ones. In a court of law, since physical evidence of witchcraft...