Category: Anthropology Is Everywhere
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Anthropology and psychology of fear
We are slowly reaching the night of Halloween, and I bet most of you are being bombarded by reruns of horror films, skulls, blood cocktails (I’m serious – there is a huge amount of Halloween themed cocktails and mocktails out there, and some of the best recipes can be found on Pinterest, so if you…
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Black cats and chthonic worlds
Today, we’re into superstitions, black cats and voodoo dolls. Or something similar, but far less eloquently phrased (thank you for this song, Ricky Martin, you created a classic! 🙂 ). Black cats are irrevocably connected to Halloween, be it as witches’ familiars or simply a living form of the devil; but the superstitions go further…
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Witches and Witchcraft
Onwards with the Halloween thematic. 🙂 A witch, warlock, sorcerer/sorceress… plus many local names in many languages all mark one belief – a belief in a human being with supernatural powers. These powers are not necessarily considered evil, or used for evil, by all; but unfortunately, most if not all beliefs know a dualism…
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Ghosts
Because we missed a day, today’s post is a double post, with ghosts on the tail of werewolves (yep, I had to. 🙂 ’tis the season XD). Like the vampires and werewolves, ghosts are a theme that pops up around Halloween until you can’t move for them; but at least with ghosts, there is a…