Witchcraft and witch-hunt have been practiced widely almost all over the world. It is known as magic in Europe, maleficium (wrong-doing) in Latin America, and superpower in Asia. In Africa those accused of being witches often face execution. A range of accusations are leveled against witches such as causing impotence, turning milk sour, causing disease and death.Three cases are presented here t...

Many untrue hypotheses and information appeared around the “alleged” witchcraft trial in Doruchow second half of 18th century, which resulted death sever-al women. The text introduces a new category sources: vital records registers consistory records, proved to be valuable material not only confirming event itself, but also revealing initiators trial, defendants, witnesses.

La edición del libro Women, witchcraft and the Inquisition in Spain new world, coordinado por la doctora Zamora Calvo, lega a los estudios culturales alrededor de las creencias mágicas un producto académico peculiar, donde haya, que aspira colaborar en renovación tema indicado...

This article critically assesses Italian scholarship on the history of witchcraft over last 60 years. Beginning with Carlo Ginzburg’s influential Night Battles (published in 1966 and translated to English 1983) ending recent work Matteo Duni, Tamar Herzig, Vincenzo Lavenia Louise Nyholm Kallestrup, traces intellectual contexts shifts historiographical debates.

Numerous hypotheses have been devised to explain the occurrence of the Salem witchcraft trials in 1692, yet a sense of bewilderment and doubt pervades most of the historical perspectives on the subject. The physical afflictions of the accusing girls and the imagery of the testimony, therefore, is dismissed as imaginary in foundation. One avenue of understanding that has yet to be sufficiently e...

This article investigates emic accounts of the AIDS deaths that have occurred in a village in the Bushbuckridge district of the South African lowveld. I argue that whilst AIDS was publicly hidden and shrouded in secrecy, private gossip created moral scripts about those suspected of having died of AIDS. Details of 47 AIDS deaths revealed that young women and relatively wealthy, sometimes powerfu...