Tag: witchcraft
Favorites of the week: Words like witchcraft – culture
Crime: “The City of the Living” A few days and nights, stuffed full of vodka and cocaine, sex and travesty, and then, on Friday, March 4, 2016, the murder happens:…
Psychology: Widespread belief in witchcraft slows development
psychology Widespread belief in witchcraft slows development The original Merseburg spells lie on a table in the Merseburg Cathedral Chapter Archive. photo © Hendrik Schmidt/dpa-Zentralbild/ZB Believe in witchcraft – one…
Widespread belief in witchcraft – knowledge
There are witches who can harm others with their supernatural abilities – a surprising number of people around the world believe that. 40 percent of the population in 95 countries…
In the Basque Country, a “fanatic” magistrate burns a woman for witchcraft after “a host spat out”
Was the Basque Country a haunt of witches, “sorginak” in Basque, in the 17th century? The strange language spoken by the population, the autonomy left to women in society when…
Würzburg: Monument to Victims of Witchcraft – Bavaria
People are accused of bewitching others and murdering children, burning pyres: in the future, a monument in Würzburg is to commemorate the brutal time of the witch hunts. The spectators…
Marwa Loud, accused of witchcraft on Lartiste, initiates legal proceedings
Singer Marwa Loud at the NRJ Music Tour in 2018. – Pierre AUGIER / SIPA Mysticism strikes again! After accusing Carla Moreau of having used witchcraft against other reality TV…