Witchcraft
Witchcraft (or witchery) is the practice of magical skills, spells, and abilities. Witchcraft is a broad term that varies culturally and societally, and thus can be difficult to define with precision. Historically, the most common meaning is the use of supernatural means to cause harm to the innocent; this remains the meaning in most traditional cultures worldwide, notably the Indigenous cultures of Asia, Latin America, Africa, the African diaspora, and Indigenous Nations in the Americas.In the Philippines, as in many of these cultures, witches are viewed as those opposed to the sacred Indigenous religions. In contrast, anthropologists writing about healers …
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PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 23 November 2022 English
The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), Vienna and the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN Women), New York, published this research …
dowry-related killings, killings of women accused of witchcraft and gender-motivated homicides connected with … deaths related to dowry payments, accusations of witchcraft and other gender-related factors have been slowly …
LC: Library of Congress · 2021 English
Cover title. "Ministry of Rural Development, Government of India, Aajeevika." Description based on onlie resource; title from PDF title page (IWWAGE www site; viewed on March 3, 2022).
killed across India on suspicion of practising witchcraft were in Jharkhand. This case study highlights … to be convinced that the woman is practicing witchcraft and is responsible for the death of the goat … for a long time, and was accused of practicing witchcraft and was branded as a witch. Close on the heels … her husband’s brother for allegedly practicing witchcraft. These cases tell the story of a deeper malaise …
PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 1 February 2020 English
This report was published in February 2020 by Pratichi Institute, Kolkata in collaboration with the Asiatic Society, Kolkata. It sheds light on the lives and deprivations of members of Adivasi …
cases, cling to oppressive behaviours such as witchcraft, which makes the ‘primitive’ mark on them even …
LC: Library of Congress · 2016 English
Includes bibliographical references. Also available online in PDF format from Forum for Women, Law and Development website.
Enactment of Anti Witchcraft Act: The Legislature Parliament has already passed Anti- Witchcraft Act (Crime … our society even after enactment of the Anti-Witchcraft Act. • Lack of awareness about laws vis-à-vis … cases invoking the Domestic Violence Act or Anti-Witchcraft Act. This is partly because of lack of awareness …
PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 31 December 2015 English
The Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Amendment Act, 2015, is an amendment to the Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989. The …
Scheduled Tribe on the allegation of practicing witchcraft or being a witch; or (zc) imposes or threatens …
LC: Library of Congress · 2015 English
Includes bibliographical references. Also available online in PDF format from the International Dalit Solidarity Network website. Acquired for the Library of Congress only.
have been killed of the suspicion of practicing witchcraft in the past 15 years. 27 All have been poor and … have been killed on the suspicion of practicing witchcraft in the past 15 years. All have been poor, mostly … physical harm on the allegation of practicing witchcraft; dedicating SC/ST women to a deity, idol, and … “Dalit women beaten up in Bihar on suspicion of witchcraft”. DNA India. 27 September 2014. See: http://www … it-woman-beaten-up-in-bihar-on-suspicion-of- witchcraft-2021967 “Dalit girl gang-raped by four in Uttar …
Museum of Ethnography · 27 August 2014 Swedish
passed through and the late wrapped around the leaf bundle. (AU) A firm-length paper label reads: Witchcraft book enl A B Johansson. This man was a pastor from Everöd and he appeared as a missionary in South … influence, people are returned to the moral order. (AL) Palm leaf beech, with wooden beads. The Book of Witchcraft. (original card) India 1968.31.0022 1968.31.0022 India …
IAP: Iqbal Academy Pakistan · 1 January 2014 English
Sir Muhammad Iqbal,What Should Then Be Done, O Nations of the East! & The Traveller, trans. by Bashir Ahmad Dar (Lahore: Iqbal Academy Pakistan, 2014), p. 28.
rest here. For this land is free from the witchcraft of the West. Kabul is a thousand times better than Delhi …
LC: Library of Congress · 2014 English
"April 2014." "Australia, England and Wales, India, South Africa, Uganda." Includes bibliographical references. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.
planning, remorse, a guilty plea, and a belief in witchcraft and religion.32 The third leg of the triad …
LC: Library of Congress · 1 January 2011 English
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inaccessibil- ity already gave it an image as a land of witchcraft and demonic people. Now, a seemingly modern vocabulary …
