Tag: culture contact
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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! 🙂 ). […]
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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 […]
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Vampires
I don’t believe we have really properly visited this topic thus far, barring the case study of the vampire scare in Malawi. With the Halloween drawing close, it is perhaps […]
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Case study – The Malawi vampire crisis
Just yesterday, an article popped up about a worrying situation – the UN leaving Malawi due to a number of threats from the locals concerning a vampire scare, which […]