Tag: human psychology
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Halloween
We have reached Halloween. We’ve gone through vampires, werewolves, ghosts and witches and anthropological debate to do it, but here it is, and I hope you have a nice evening […]
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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 […]
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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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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 […]