Witchcraft as Political Resistance

Historical Dictionary of Witchcraft

Witchcraft and Magic in Ireland

Women as easy scapegoats: witchcraft accusations and women as targets in tea plantations of India.

This article revisits a much-debated question: Why are women popular targets during witch hunts? By using in-depth interviews this article provides an answer. Women are easy targets or scapegoats for two reasons. First, it is widely believed in the community that was studied that witches do, in fact, exist, and the images of witches are always female. Second, tribal women hold lower positions t...

Getting Shot of Elves: Healing, Witchcraft and Fairies in the Scottish Witchcraft Trials

This paper re-examines the evidence of the Scottish witchcraft trials for beliefs associated by scholars with “elf-shot.” Some supposed evidence for elf-shot is dismissed, but other material illuminates the interplay between illness, healing and fairy-lore in early modern Scotland, and the relationship of these beliefs to witchcraft itself.

Semiotics, interpretation and political resistance in architecture

Strategies for analysing and interpreting architecture and the city based on its association with an abstract conception of language have been an important component of recent debate in architecture, town planning and urban geography. The origins of this kind of approach to the built environment can be found in the work of early linguists such as Ferdinand de Saussure and Charles Sanders Peirce...