Witchcraft and Welfare

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Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 0292774605
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (927 download)

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Book Synopsis Witchcraft and Welfare by : Raquel Romberg

Download or read book Witchcraft and Welfare written by Raquel Romberg and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2009-05-21 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Persecuted as evil during colonial times, considered charlatans during the nation-building era, Puerto Rican brujos (witch-healers) today have become spiritual entrepreneurs who advise their clients not only in consultation with the spirits but also in compliance with state laws and new economic opportunities. Combining trance, dance, magic, and healing practices with expertise in the workings of the modern welfare state, they help lawyers win custody suits, sick employees resolve labor disability claims, single mothers apply for government housing, or corporation managers maximize their commercial skills. Drawing on extensive fieldwork among practicing brujos, this book presents a masterful history and ethnography of Puerto Rican brujería (witch-healing). Raquel Romberg explores how brujería emerged from a blending of popular Catholicism, Afro-Latin religions, French Spiritism, and folk Protestantism and also looks at how it has adapted to changes in state policies and responded to global flows of ideas and commodities. She demonstrates that, far from being an exotic or marginal practice in the modern world, brujería has become an invisible yet active partner of consumerism and welfare capitalism.

Craft

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Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1473553210
Total Pages : 325 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (735 download)

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Book Synopsis Craft by : Gabriela Herstik

Download or read book Craft written by Gabriela Herstik and published by Random House. This book was released on 2018-03-15 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Infuse a drop of magick into your everyday life. Writer, fashion alchemist and modern witch, Gabriela Herstik, unlocks the ancient art of witchcraft so that you can find a brand of magick that works for you. From working with crystals, tarot and astrology, to understanding sex magick, solstices and full moons; learn how to harness energy, unleash your inner psychic and connect with the natural world. Full of spells and rituals for self-care, new opportunities and keeping away toxic energy, Craft is the essential lifestyle guide for the modern woman who wants to take control and reconnect with herself. After all, empowered women run the world (and they’re probably witches).

The Routledge History of Witchcraft

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Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000765741
Total Pages : 500 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (7 download)

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Book Synopsis The Routledge History of Witchcraft by : Johannes Dillinger

Download or read book The Routledge History of Witchcraft written by Johannes Dillinger and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-12-06 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Routledge History of Witchcraft is a comprehensive and interdisciplinary study of the belief in witches from antiquity to the present day, providing both an introduction to the subject of witchcraft and an overview of the on-going debates. This extensive collection covers the entire breadth of the history of witchcraft, from the witches of Ancient Greece and medieval demonology through to the victims of the witch hunts, and onwards to children’s books, horror films, and modern pagans. Drawing on the knowledge and expertise of an international team of authors, the book examines differing concepts of witchcraft that still exist in society and explains their historical, literary, religious, and anthropological origin and development, including the reflections and adaptions of this belief in art and popular culture. The volume is divided into four chronological parts, beginning with Antiquity and the Middle Ages in Part One, Early Modern witch hunts in Part Two, modern concepts of witchcraft in Part Three, and ending with an examination of witchcraft and the arts in Part Four. Each chapter offers a glimpse of a different version of the witch, introducing the reader to the diversity of witches that have existed in different contexts throughout history. Exploring a wealth of texts and case studies and offering a broad geographical scope for examining this fascinating subject, The Routledge History of Witchcraft is essential reading for students and academics interested in the history of witchcraft.

Historia de la Brujería

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Publisher : PLUTÓN EDICIONES X SL
ISBN 13 : 8418211091
Total Pages : 351 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (182 download)

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Book Synopsis Historia de la Brujería by : Francesc Cardona

Download or read book Historia de la Brujería written by Francesc Cardona and published by PLUTÓN EDICIONES X SL. This book was released on 2020-04-01 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Esta obra propone desmitificar un tema de ayer, de hoy y de siempre, tan sugestivo, atrayente y lleno de misterio como ha sido y continúa siendo la brujería. La brujería ha sido y es uno de tantos fenómenos de tipo paranormal que ha vivido la historia de la humanidad, surgido por un cúmulo de circunstancias políticas, sociales, económicas, a las que se debe añadir las espirituales, mentales y religiosas. Desde su aparición sobre la Tierra, los seres humanos han sentido la necesidad de buscar enlaces con ese supuesto o real más allá y de contestar a las preguntas: ¿quiénes somos?, ¿de dónde venimos? y ¿a dónde vamos?, sin conseguir unas respuestas plenamente satisfactorias. Las brujas han sido, para bien o para mal, un vehículo de unión con lo desconocido. El profesor Cardona ha puesto los puntos sobre las íes sobre ellas, reflejando los cambios de mentalidad en las diversas épocas y países, llegando hasta la época presente y profundizando en la brujería española y latinoamericana y en las injustas persecuciones de que fue objeto desde mediados de la Edad Media hasta el siglo XVII. En la obra se han analizado también las misas negras y la perduración de la brujería en el continente africano, para terminar con una aproximación a las fiestas populares protagonizadas por brujas o demonios.

The Salazar Documents

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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004131868
Total Pages : 533 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (41 download)

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Book Synopsis The Salazar Documents by : Gustav Henningsen

Download or read book The Salazar Documents written by Gustav Henningsen and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2004 with total page 533 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A bilingual edition of eye-witness reports on an early 17th-century witch panic or dream epidemic in the Basque country, written by a Jesuit, a Bishop, and a Spanish Inquisitor who analysed the phenomenon empirically from psychological and anthropological standpoints.

Book of Shadows

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Publisher : Llewellyn Worldwide
ISBN 13 : 0738702137
Total Pages : 119 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (387 download)

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Book Synopsis Book of Shadows by : Migene González-Wippler

Download or read book Book of Shadows written by Migene González-Wippler and published by Llewellyn Worldwide. This book was released on 2005 with total page 119 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Like other religions, Witchcraft has its deities, priests, holidays, rituals, and rules. Yet, Wiccan beliefs and practices are often unknown or misunderstood by non-Pagans and the uninitiated. Approaching the Craft from the Gardnerian perspective, Migene González-Wippler offers a friendly, straightforward introduction to the Old Religion and sheds light on what it truly means to be a Witch. What goes on at coven meetings? How do Witches perform magic? Why does magic work? From initiation rites to invoking elementals, González-Wippler explains both practical and spiritual aspects of Wiccan traditions. Book of Shadows also teaches the significance of Moon phases, herbs, colors, crystals, common magical tools, and other implements when performing sacred ceremonies

Encyclopedia of Witchcraft [4 volumes]

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Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1851095128
Total Pages : 1310 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (51 download)

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Book Synopsis Encyclopedia of Witchcraft [4 volumes] by : Richard M. Golden Director, Jewish Studies Program

Download or read book Encyclopedia of Witchcraft [4 volumes] written by Richard M. Golden Director, Jewish Studies Program and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2006-01-30 with total page 1310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The definitive compilation on witchcraft and witch hunting in the early modern era exploring significant people, places, beliefs, and events. Encyclopedia of Witchcraft: The Western Tradition is the definitive reference on the age of witch hunting (approximately 1430–1750), its origins, expansion, and ultimate decline. Incorporating a wealth of recent scholarship in four richly illustrated, alphabetically organized volumes, it offers historians and general readers alike the opportunity to explore the realities behind the legends of witchcraft and witchcraft trials. Over 170 contributors from 28 nations provide vivid, documented descriptions and analyses of witchcraft trials and locations, folklore and beliefs, magical practices and deities, influential texts, and the full range of players in this extraordinary drama—witchcraft theorists and theologians; historians and authors; judges, clergy, and rulers; the accused; and their persecutors. Concentrating on Europe and the Americas in the early modern era, the work also covers relevant topics from the ancient Near East (including the Hebrew and Christian Bibles), classical antiquity, and the European Middle Ages.

Brujerías

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Publisher : Texas Tech University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780896726079
Total Pages : 410 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (26 download)

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Book Synopsis Brujerías by : Nasario García

Download or read book Brujerías written by Nasario García and published by Texas Tech University Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A collection of bilingual oral stories (Spanish/English) of witchcraft and the supernatural (including tales of sorcerers; witches; La Llorona, the vanishing hitchhiker; and apparitions) from old-timers and young people whose ages range from ninety-eight to seventeen and who live in Latin America and the American Southwest"--From the publisher.

Brujas

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Publisher : Chicago Review Press
ISBN 13 : 1641604026
Total Pages : 277 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (416 download)

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Book Synopsis Brujas by : Lorraine Monteagut

Download or read book Brujas written by Lorraine Monteagut and published by Chicago Review Press. This book was released on 2021-10-05 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Brujas, Witches of Color are ancestral magical beings and the world we live in has tried to silence our voices. . . . This book is such a beautiful tribute to the different stories and experiences we go through as brujas. . . . Amplify the voice of Witches of Color by reading their stories." —Juliet Diaz, author of Witchery and Plant Witchery There is a new kind of witch emerging in our cultural consciousness: the bruja. Witchcraft has made a comeback in popular culture, especially among feminists. A growing subculture of BIPOC witches, led by Afro-Caribbean immigrants, Indigenous Americans, and other witches of color, is reclaiming their ancestral traditions and contributing their voices to the feminist witchcraft of today. Brujas chronicles the magical lives of these practitioners as they develop their healing arts, express their progressive politics, and extend their personal rituals into community activism. They are destigmatizing the "witch" of their ancestries and bringing persecuted traditions to the open to challenge cultural appropriation and spiritual consumerism. Part memoir, part ritual guide, Brujas empowers readers to decolonize their spiritual practices and connect with their own ancestors. Brujas reminds us that witchcraft is more than a trend—it's a movement.

Buckland's Complete Book of Witchcraft

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Publisher : Llewellyn Worldwide
ISBN 13 : 0875420508
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (754 download)

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Book Synopsis Buckland's Complete Book of Witchcraft by : Raymond Buckland

Download or read book Buckland's Complete Book of Witchcraft written by Raymond Buckland and published by Llewellyn Worldwide. This book was released on 1986 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This complete self-study course in modern Wicca is a treasured classic - an essential and trusted guide that belongs in every witch's library."---Back cover

GRAN LIBRO DE LA MAGIA RITUAL

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Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1471041417
Total Pages : 474 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (71 download)

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Book Synopsis GRAN LIBRO DE LA MAGIA RITUAL by : Maestro Rejko Jodorowsky

Download or read book GRAN LIBRO DE LA MAGIA RITUAL written by Maestro Rejko Jodorowsky and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2012-01-04 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Excepcional libro para todos aquellos que se inician en el mundo del Esoterismo y para todos aquellos profesionales que quieran o necesiten ampliar sus conocimientos en la materia ya que nos permite ver el lado oculto de los rituales mágicos.Con extrema claridad y sencillez de expresión logra acercarse a todo aquel lector que busque en esta obra un método de consulta en sus prácticas habituales.Llega a todo y a todos aportando la luz tan necesaria hoy en día."Christopher Dawson.Open University of Advanced Sciences Inc. Florida (EEUU)

A History of Magic and Witchcraft

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Publisher : Pen and Sword
ISBN 13 : 1526731827
Total Pages : 339 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (267 download)

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Book Synopsis A History of Magic and Witchcraft by : Frances Timbers

Download or read book A History of Magic and Witchcraft written by Frances Timbers and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2019-05-09 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author of Magic and Masculinity explores the history and development of magic and witchcraft in Western society. Broomsticks, cauldrons, familiars, and spells—magic and witchcraft conjure a vivid picture in our modern-day imagination. While much of our understanding is rooted in superstition and myth, the history of magic and witchcraft offers a window into the past. It illuminates the lives of ordinary people in the past and elucidates the fascinating pop culture of the premodern world. Blowing away folkloric cobwebs, this enlightening new history dispels many misconceptions surrounding witchcraft and magic that we still hold today. From Ancient Greece and Rome to the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Era, historian Frances Timbers details the impact of Christianity and popular culture in the construction of the figure of the “witch.” The development of demonology and ceremonial magic is combined with the West’s troubled past with magic and witchcraft to chart the birth of modern Wiccan and Neopagan movements in England and North America. Witchcraft is a metaphor for oppression in an age in which persecution is an everyday occurrence somewhere in the world. Fanaticism, intolerance, prejudice, authoritarianism, and religious and political ideologies are never attractive. Beware the witch hunter!

Invoking the Akelarre

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Publisher : Liverpool University Press
ISBN 13 : 1782846247
Total Pages : 467 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (828 download)

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Book Synopsis Invoking the Akelarre by : Emma Wilby

Download or read book Invoking the Akelarre written by Emma Wilby and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2019-08-02 with total page 467 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With their dramatic descriptions of black masses and cannibalistic feasts, the records generated by the Basque witch-craze of 160914 provide us with arguably the most demonologically-stereotypical accounts of the witches sabbath or akelarre to have emerged from early modern Europe. While the trials have attracted scholarly attention, the most substantial monograph on the subject was written nearly forty years ago and most works have focused on the ways in which interrogators shaped the pattern of prosecutions and the testimonies of defendants. Invoking the Akelarre diverts from this norm by employing more recent historiographical paradigms to analyze the contributions of the accused. Through interdisciplinary analyses of both French- and Spanish-Basque records, it argues that suspects were not passive recipients of elite demonological stereotypes but animated these received templates with their own belief and experience, from the dark exoticism of magical conjuration, liturgical cursing and theatrical misrule to the sharp pragmatism of domestic medical practice and everyday religious observance. In highlighting the range of raw materials available to the suspects, the book helps us to understand how the fiction of the witches sabbath emerged to such prominence in contemporary mentalities, whilst also restoring some agency to the defendants and nuancing the historical thesis that stereotypical content points to interrogatorial opinion and folkloric content to the voices of the accused. In its local context, this study provides an intimate portrait of peasant communities as they flourished in the Basque region in this period and leaves us with the irony that Europes most sensationally-demonological accounts of the witches sabbath may have evolved out of a particularly ardent commitment, on the part of ordinary Basques, to the social and devotional structures of popular Catholicism.

Women, Witchcraft, and the Inquisition in Spain and the New World

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Publisher : LSU Press
ISBN 13 : 0807176451
Total Pages : 181 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (71 download)

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Book Synopsis Women, Witchcraft, and the Inquisition in Spain and the New World by : María Jesús Zamora Calvo

Download or read book Women, Witchcraft, and the Inquisition in Spain and the New World written by María Jesús Zamora Calvo and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2021-10-27 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Women, Witchcraft, and the Inquisition in Spain and the New World investigates the mystery and unease surrounding the issue of women called before the Inquisition in Spain and its colonial territories in the Americas, including Mexico and Cartagena de Indias. Edited by María Jesús Zamora Calvo, this collection gathers innovative scholarship that considers how the Holy Office of the Inquisition functioned as a closed, secret world defined by patriarchal hierarchy and grounded in misogynistic standards. Ten essays present portraits of women who, under accusations as diverse as witchcraft, bigamy, false beatitude, and heresy, faced the Spanish and New World Inquisitions to account for their lives. Each essay draws on the documentary record of trials, confessions, letters, diaries, and other primary materials. Focusing on individual cases of women brought before the Inquisition, the authors study their subjects’ social status, particularize their motivations, determine the characteristics of their prosecution, and deduce the reasons used to justify violence against them. With their subjection of women to imprisonment, interrogation, and judgment, these cases display at their core a specter of contempt, humiliation, silencing, and denial of feminine selfhood. The contributors include specialists in the early modern period from multiple disciplines, encompassing literature, language, translation, literary theory, history, law, iconography, and anthropology. By considering both the women themselves and the Inquisition as an institution, this collection works to uncover stories, lives, and cultural practices that for centuries have dwelled in obscurity.

Ocultismo: la Guía Definitiva de Lo Oculto, Incluyendo Magia, Adivinación, Astrología, Brujería Y Alquimia

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ISBN 13 : 9781638181323
Total Pages : pages
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Village Infernos and Witches’ Advocates

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Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 0271092092
Total Pages : 261 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (71 download)

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Book Synopsis Village Infernos and Witches’ Advocates by : Lu Ann Homza

Download or read book Village Infernos and Witches’ Advocates written by Lu Ann Homza and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2022-04-25 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book revises what we thought we knew about one of the most famous witch hunts in European history. Between 1608 and 1614, thousands of witchcraft accusations were leveled against men, women, and children in the northern Spanish kingdom of Navarre. The Inquisition intervened quickly but incompetently, and the denunciations continued to accelerate. As the phenomenon spread, children began to play a crucial role. Not only were they reportedly victims of the witches’ harmful magic, but hundreds of them also insisted that witches were taking them to the Devil’s gatherings against their will. Presenting important archival discoveries, Lu Ann Homza restores the perspectives of illiterate, Basque-speaking individuals to the history of this shocking event and demonstrates what could happen when the Spanish Inquisition tried to take charge of a liminal space. Because the Spanish Inquisition was the body putting those accused of witchcraft on trial, modern scholars have depended upon Inquisition sources for their research. Homza’s groundbreaking book combines new readings of the Inquisitional evidence with fresh archival finds from non-Inquisitional sources, including local secular and religious courts, and from notarial and census records. Expanding our understanding of this witch hunt as well as the history of children, community norms, and legal expertise in early modern Europe, Village Infernos and Witches’ Advocates is required reading for students and scholars of the Spanish Inquisition and the history of witchcraft in early modern Europe.

Urban Magic in Early Modern Spain

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Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137355883
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (373 download)

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Book Synopsis Urban Magic in Early Modern Spain by : M. Tausiet

Download or read book Urban Magic in Early Modern Spain written by M. Tausiet and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-01-21 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on the graphic and revealing evidence recorded by the different courts in early modern Saragossa, this book captures the spirit of an age when religious faith vied for people's hearts and minds with centuries-old beliefs in witchcraft and superstition.