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Witchcraft - African witchcraft: Encyclopedia - Witchcraft

The term witchcraft (and witch) is a controversial one with a complicated history. Witchcraft is viewed differently in different cultures around the globe. Used with entirely different contexts, and within entirely different cultural references, it can take on distinct and often contradictory meanings. Each culture has its own particular body of concepts dealing with magic, religion, benevolent and harmful spirits, and ritual; and these ideas d ...

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Witchcraft - African witchcraft: Encyclopedia II - Witchcraft - African witchcraft Africans have a wide range of views of traditional religions. African Christians typically accept Christian dogma as do their counterparts in Latin America and Asia. The term witch doctor, often attributed to African inyanga, has been misconstrued to mean "a healer who uses witchcraft" rather than its original meaning of "one who diagnoses and cures maladies caused by witches". Combining Roman Catholic beliefs and practices and traditional West African religious beliefs and practices are several syncretic religions in the Americas, in ...

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Witchcraft - African witchcraft: Encyclopedia - Christian views on witchcraft

Christian views on witchcraft arise from scriptural, theological, and historical considerations. Christian views on witchcraft - Modern views. Most modern Christians do not believe that witchcraft genuinely works. Those Christians who do, generally believe that it derives its power from forces of evil. For example, some Christians believe that witches' powers were obtained from a pact with Satan. For some reason, the same views are generally held on supposed witchcraft that does not gain power from Satan. O ...

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Witchcraft - African witchcraft: Encyclopedia - Azande

The Azande (plural, "Zande" in singular) are a people of north central Africa. Their number is estimated by various sources at between 1 and 4 million. They live primarily in the northern part of Democratic Republic of the Congo, in southwestern Sudan, and in the southeastern Central African Republic. The Congolese Azande live in the province of Upper Zaïre; the Sudanese Azande live along the shores of the Uele River, and the Central African Azande live ...

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Witchcraft - African witchcraft: Encyclopedia - Witch-hunt

A witch-hunt was traditionally a search for witches or evidence of witchcraft, which could lead to a witchcraft trial involving the accused person. Today such events are recognised as a type of moral panic. Witchhunts still occur in the modern era, in the sense that ignorant or uneducated people, isolated peoples, or people living a traditional lifestyle may persecute people that they believe are witches. The term is now widely used in a modern sense to refer to any search for a perceived or hidden enemy, with the same connotations of ...

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Witchcraft - African witchcraft: Encyclopedia - Macumba

Macumba is a word of African (Bantu) origins. Various explanations of its meaning include "a musical instrument", the name of a Central African deity, and simply "magic". It was the name used for all Bantu religious practices mainly in Rio de Janeiro Afro-Brazilian in the 19th Century. Later (20th century) these practices re-aligned themselves into what are now called Umbanda, Quimbanda and Omoloko. "Macumba" became common in many parts of Brazil used by the non-practicing population as ...

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Witchcraft - African witchcraft: Encyclopedia - African religions

African religions are distinct to African ethnic groups. In certain respects the term is awkward as traditional African religions have a wide cultural variety that makes virtually any overall statement a sweeping generalization, but the majority of African religions do share some commonalities. There is no universal aspect found in all African religions. Not all people of African descent are known to follow these gods, however. Many tribes in Africa have been converted to Islam and the Nation of Islam group tries to convert Afr ...

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Witchcraft - African witchcraft: Encyclopedia - Hoodoo

Hoodoo is a traditional folk magic which originated in the western African coastal cultures and migrated to the United States during the slave trade. The goal of hoodoo is to allow people access to supernatural forces to influence their daily lives. Hoodoo is believed to have influence in many areas, including gambling, love, divination, cursing one's enemies, treatment of disease, employment, and necromancy. Many patent medicines were aimed at hoodoo practitioners. Significant use is made of various home-made potion ...

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Hoodoo - References in Other Media

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Witchcraft - African witchcraft: Encyclopedia - African anarchism

Schools Anarcho-capitalism Anarcho-communism Anarcho-primitivism Anarcho-syndicalism Christian anarchism Eco-anarchism Individualist anarchism Mutualism Anarchism in culture Anarchism and religion Anarchism and society Anarchism and the arts Anarcho-punk Anarchist theory Anarchism and capitalism Anarchism and Marxism Anarchist economics Anarchist law Anarchist symbolism Anarchism without adjectives Pos ...

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Witchcraft - African witchcraft: Encyclopedia - Alligatoridae

Alligator Caiman Melanosuchus Paleosuchus Alligators and caimans are reptiles closely related to the crocodiles and forming the family Alligatoridae (sometimes regarded instead as the subfamily Alligatorinae). Together with the Gharial (family Gavialidae) they make up the order Crocodilia. Alligators differ from crocodiles principally in having wider and shorter heads, with more obtuse snouts; in having the fourth, enlarged tooth of the under jaw received ...

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Witchcraft - African witchcraft: Encyclopedia - Alamogordo New Mexico

Alamogordo is a city located in Otero County, New Mexico, United States of America. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 35,582. The city name is a Spanish word meaning "fat cottonwood". It is the county seat of Otero County.GR6 Alamogordo New Mexico - Geography. Alamogordo is located at 32°53'45" North, 105°57'8" West (32.895940, -105.952134)GR1. According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 5 ...

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Witchcraft - African witchcraft: Encyclopedia - Candomblé

Candomblé is an Afro-American religion practiced chiefly in Brazil but also in adjacent countries. The religion came from Africa to Brazil, carried by African priests and adherents who were brought as slaves between 1549 and 1888. The name Batuque is also used, especially before the 19th century when Candomblé became more common. Both words are believed to derive from a Bantu-family language. Although originally confined to the slave population, banned by the Catholic church, and even criminalized by some govern ...

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Witchcraft - African witchcraft: Encyclopedia - Beverly Massachusetts

Beverly is a city located in Essex County, Massachusetts. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 39,862. The mayor is William Scanlon, who was elected to his fifth term in 2003. Beverly Massachusetts - History and Trivia. Beverly was first settled in 1626 and was officially incorporated in 1668. The first ship commissioned by the United States military (actually the US Army, as the US Navy did not yet exist), the armed schooner Hannah, first sailed from Beverly Harbor on Sep ...

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Witchcraft - African witchcraft: Encyclopedia - Anarchist symbolism

Schools Anarcho-capitalism Anarcho-communism Anarcho-primitivism Anarcho-syndicalism Christian anarchism Eco-anarchism Individualist anarchism Mutualism Anarchism in culture Anarchism and religion Anarchism and society Anarchism and the arts Anarcho-punk Anarchist theory Anarchism and capitalism Anarchism and Marxism Anarchist economics Anarchist law Anarchist symbolism Anarchism without adjectives P ...

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Witchcraft - African witchcraft: Encyclopedia - Augustine of Hippo

Aurelius Augustinus, Augustine of Hippo ("The knowledgeable one") (November 13, 354–August 28, 430) is a saint and the pre-eminent Doctor of the Church according to Roman Catholicism, and is considered by Evangelical Protestants to be (together with the Apostle Paul and the Bible) the theological fountainhead of the Reformation teaching on salvation and grace. He was the eldest son of Saint Monica. Works of Saint Augustine, an African by birth, a Roman by education, a Milanese by baptism, still inspire many Christians all ove ...

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Witchcraft - African witchcraft: Encyclopedia II - Sabbath witchcraft - Origins and connections

Sabbath witchcraft - Hallucinogens. It has been recently speculated that some of the historical cases of Sabbath and witchcraft could be the result hallucinations caused by hallucinogenic drugs. The psychoactive effects of plants like the nightshade were known since antiquity; and ergot, a fungus that grows on rye in humid conditions, is know to cause neurlogical disturbances which could fit some of the acts described in the Sabbath inquries. In particular, the ergot theory has been put forward in connection with the Salem Witch Trials. < ...

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