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World Encyclopedia
Exercise of supernatural occult powers, usually due to some inherent power rather than to an acquired skill, such as sorcery.
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A Dictionary of the Bible (2 ed.)
Forbidden in the *Deuteronomist Code (Deut. 18: 10–11) but licensed by *Manasseh (2 Kgs. 21: 6). A woman
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Dictionary of the Social Sciences
Much of the pioneering anthropological work on witchcraft was done in Africa by British social anthropologists. These scholars tended to
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Ed Benson
The Oxford Encyclopedia Women in World History
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The Oxford Encyclopedia of Mesoamerican Cultures
The complex of Mesoamerican witchcraft, sorcery, magic, and associated beliefs and practices (“anthropomorphic supernaturalism,” as a whole) is largely of
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The Oxford Encyclopedia of African Thought
The terms witchcraft and witch have many different meanings. In African thinking the term witchcraft is best used to describe
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The Oxford Dictionary of the Renaissance
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The Oxford Companion to the Body
can be roughly defined as the power of a person to do harm or influence nature through occult means. It
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The Oxford Dictionary of Local and Family History
In the Middle Ages prosecutions were few and punishments light. Witchcraft became a felony in 1563. The death penalty
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Jonathan Pearl
The Oxford Companion to Canadian History
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The Oxford Dictionary of the Jewish Religion (2 ed.)
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Encyclopedia of the Middle Ages
Distinct from magic in that it implied that the practices common to them, which enabled the adept to be recognised,
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The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions
(from wicca).
The belief that human affairs and features of the environment can be ordered, controlled, and changed by
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The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Reformation
Conceptually defined and punished long before the Reformation, witchcraft became a serious concern throughout Christendom primarily during the confessional century
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Ann Kibbey
The Oxford Companion to Women's Writing in the United States
Ancient Western beliefs about witchcraft differ markedly from the stereotype put forward by modern Christianity. The earliest European sources identified the ...
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A Concise Companion to the Jewish Religion
The key biblical verse on the subject of witchcraft: ‘Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live’ (Exodus 22: 17)
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Isak Niehaus
The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern World
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The Oxford Companion to Local and Family History (2 ed.)
The best introductions to the study of witchcraft are Keith Thomas, Religion and the Decline of Magic (1971), and ...
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The Oxford Companion to Irish History (2 ed.)
can take many forms. Anthropologists distinguish between ‘sorcery’, the manipulation of spells and potions, and ‘witchcraft’, supernatural aggression based on
