Author: Douglas J. GiffordPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
'El mundo de las brujas' and some socio-medical aspects of magic
Author: Douglas J. GiffordBrujeria: An Introduction to Mexican Magic and Witchcraft
Author: Renata LopezPublisher: Creek Ridge Publishing
ISBN:
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 68
Book Description
Discover all the different practices and beliefs of Brujeria that make it so popular. Brujeria has been a worldwide phenomenon that has managed to change over the years. Mexican culture has always been greatly influenced by Latin American culture and traditions. It forms an integral part of what we know as Latin America. Brujeria’s origins and its long-lasting impact has shaped Mexican society in more ways than one. From being a beacon of hope for women in society to carving out a niche for Latinos, Brujeria has always been much more than just witchcraft.
Ecofeminism and mythological aspects in Modern Witches
Author: Xiana SoteloPublisher:
ISBN: 9788419370228
Category : Ecofeminism
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Ecofeminismo y aspectos míticos en las brujas modernas busca establecer una reflexión crítica sobre narrativas míticas actuales acerca de las brujas y la brujería dentro de expresiones literarias y artísticas, redes sociales y formatos audiovisuales, desde una mirada específicamente ecofeminista. Restaurando una injusticia histórica, desde la pluralidad de sus prácticas y habilidades, un gran número de brujas modernas se describen conscientemente como seres de luz, astrólogas, en consonancia con las fases lunares, expertas en plantas, en elementos y fuerzas de la naturaleza. Unidas en el recuerdo de un poder ancestral al que están despertando, buscan ofrecer formas auténticas y significativamente trascendentes de estar en el cuerpo y en el mundo. Así, en las narrativas de estas brujas modernas, celebramos la resignificación histórica de lo mitológico desde una revisión ecofeminista sanadora y empoderada.-
Brujo
Author: Ryan PimentelPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
Brujería is the Spanish word for witchcraft. A male witch is called a Brujo and a female witch is a Bruja. Most Witches choose to work alone but some have covens or are part of a magical fraternity. Brujería is a spiritual path based on personal experience and personal power. I am a Puerto Rican Brujo/Witch who has been practicing magic since childhood. This book is written to be a standalone manual on how you can start practicing ancestral witchcraft. Hence forth I am going to be using the term "witch" as a pronoun since it has become a gender-neutral term in neopaganism. I give you permission to practice, elaborate, and expand on the spells and magical techniques in this book. Nothing in this book is going to cause you harm. Also, everything I teach you is "open". That means anyone of any ethnicity can practice without fear of cultural appropriation. If you are accused of cultural appropriation when performing any techniques out of this book direct them to me. If you are reading this book, you are coming under my protection as your mentor and I accept you as one of my "godchildren at large". Witchcraft is for everybody regardless of the word used for it.
Witchcraft continued
Author: Willem De BlecourtPublisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 1526137976
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
This electronic version has been made available under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-ND) open access license. The study of witchcraft accusations in Europe during the period after the end of the witch trials is still in its infancy. Witches were scratched in England, swum in Germany, beaten in the Netherlands and shot in France. The continued widespread belief in witchcraft and magic in nineteenth- and twentieth-century France has received considerable academic attention. The book discusses the extent and nature of witchcraft accusations in the period and provides a general survey of the published work on the subject for an English audience. It explores the presence of magical elements in everyday life during the modern period in Spain. The book provides a general overview of vernacular magical beliefs and practices in Italy from the time of unification to the present, with particular attention to how these traditions have been studied. By functioning as mechanisms of social ethos and control, narratives of magical harm were assured a place at the very heart of rural Finnish social dynamics into the twentieth century. The book draws upon over 300 narratives recorded in rural Finland in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries that provide information concerning the social relations, tensions and strategies that framed sorcery and the counter-magic employed against it. It is concerned with a special form of witchcraft that is practised only amongst Hungarians living in Transylvania.
The Role of Magic in the Past
Author: Blanka SzeghyováPublisher:
ISBN: 9788096936632
Category : Magic
Languages : en
Pages : 255
Book Description
Between the Living and the Dead
Author: Éva PócsPublisher: Central European University Press
ISBN: 6155225303
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
Éva Pócs, one of the most highly respected scholars of historical anthropology, has undertaken extensive research on the history of folk beliefs connected with communication and the supernatural sphere. In this book, she examines the relics of European shamanism in early modern sources, and the techniques and belief-systems of mediators found in the records of witchcraft trials from the sixteenth to the eighteenth century. The book explores the various communication systems known to early modern Hungarians, describes the role of these systems in everyday village life, and shows how they were connected to contemporary European systems, as well as new types of mediators and systems which function right up to the twentieth century. Representing a major contribution to the most up-to-date international research, Eva Pócs draws on significant East European material and literature not previously co-ordinated with that from the West.
The Things of Others: Ethnographies, Histories, and Other Artefacts
Author: Olívia Maria Gomes da CunhaPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004429301
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 772
Book Description
The Things of Others: Ethnographies, Histories, and Other Artefacts deals with the things mainly, but not only, mobilized by anthropologists in order to produce knowledge about the African American, the Afro-Brazilian and the Afro-Cuban during the 1930s.
A Companion to Celestina
Author: Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004349324
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 444
Book Description
In A Companion to Celestina, Enrique Fernandez brings together twenty-three hitherto unpublished contributions on the Tragicomedia de Calisto y Melibea, popularly known as Celestina (c. 1499) written by leading experts who summarize, evaluate and expand on previous studies. The resulting chapters offer the non-specialist an overview of Celestina studies. Those who already know the field will find state of the art studies filled with new insights that elaborate on or depart from the well-established currents of criticism. Celestina's creation and sources, the parody of religious and erudite traditions, the treatment of magic, prostitution, the celestinesca and picaresque genre, the translations into other languages as well as the adaptations into the visual arts (engravings, paintings, films) are some of the topics included in this companion. Contributors are: Beatriz de Alba-Koch, Raúl Álvarez Moreno, Consolación Baranda, Ted L. Bergman, Patrizia Botta, José Luis Canet, Fernando Cantalapiedra, Ricardo Castells, Ivy Corfis, Manuel da Costa Fontes, Enrique Fernandez, José Luis Gastañaga Ponce de León, Ryan D. Giles, Yolanda Iglesias, Gustavo Illades Aguiar, Kathleen V. Kish, Bienvenido Morros Mestres, Devid Paolini, Antonio Pérez Romero, Amaranta Saguar García, Connie Scarborough, Joseph T. Snow, and Enriqueta Zafra.
Author: Library of Congress