Women and Witchcraft in Thomas Malory’s Le Morte D’Arthur

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...

Morte: uma visão psicossocial

Death: a psychosocial view. Death is part of the process of human development and it is present in our daily life. Different professionals–particularly health professionals–interact with the process of death and dying in their professional activity. However, in addition to being inserted in a social-historical context of death denial, their professional formation is characterized by the emphasi...

Witchcraft and Magic in Ireland

ترجمه،نقدوبررسی بخش پایانی کتاب : women family and gender in islamic law

موضوع این تحقیق ترجمه ، نقدوبررسی بخش پایانی کتابی است بانام "women, family and gender in islamic law" [زنان، خانواده وجنسیت درحقوق اسلام]. اصل کتاب به زبان انگلیسی است؛ ما علاوه برترجمه، برآن حاشیه نیززده ایم. ونهایتا نقدوبررسی نیز کرده ایم. درفصل نقدوبررسی پس ازایرادمقدمه، نخستین سخن را به بحثی به نام "تنازع پیش فرض ها" اختصاص دادیم. جان سخن ما دراین بحث این است که ازآنجاکه مسلمانان باغیرمسل...

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.