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Pages: 336
Authors: Raquel Romberg
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2009-05-21 - Publisher: University of Texas Press

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Persecuted as evil during colonial times, considered charlatans during the nation-building era, Puerto Rican brujos (witch-healers) today have become spiritual
The Oxford Handbook of Witchcraft in Early Modern Europe and Colonial America
Language: en
Pages: 645
Authors: Brian P. Levack
Categories: History
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A collection of essays from leading scholars in the field that collectively study the rise and fall of witchcraft prosecutions in the various kingdoms and terri
In Defense of Witches
Language: en
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Authors: Mona Chollet
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2022-03-08 - Publisher: St. Martin's Press

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Mona Chollet's In Defense of Witches is a “brilliant, well-documented” celebration (Le Monde) by an acclaimed French feminist of the witch as a symbol of fe
April Witch
Language: en
Pages: 424
Authors: Majgull Axelsson
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2004 - Publisher: Katha

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Majgull Axelson is the author of four works of non-fiction as well as one previous novel, Far from Nitetheim, for which she was awarded the 1994 Moa Stipend. Th
Healing Dramas
Language: en
Pages: 313
Authors: Raquel Romberg
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2009-04-01 - Publisher: University of Texas Press

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In this intimate ethnography, Raquel Romberg seeks to illuminate the performative significance of healing rituals and magic works, their embodied nature, and th