Witches, Tea Plantations, and Lives of Migrant Laborers in India: Tempest in Teapot is a unique book that brings together a holistic theoretical approach on the subject of witchcraft accusations, specifically those taking place inside a tea workers' community in India. Using a combination of in-depth and extensive qualitative methods, and drawing on sociological, anthropological, and historical perspectives, Chaudhuri explores how adivasi (tribal) migrant workers use witchcraft accusations to deal with worker-management conflict. Chaudhuri argues that witchcraft accusations can be interpreted as a periodic reaction of the adivasi worker community against their oppression by the plantation management. The typical avenues of social protest are often unavailable to marginalized workers due to lack of organizational and political representation and resources. As a result, the dain (witch) becomes a scapegoat for the malice of the plantation economy. Within this discourse, witch hunts can be seen not as exotic and primitive rituals of a backward community, but rather as a powerful protest by a community against its oppressors. The book attempts to understand the complex network of relationships--ties of friendship, family, politics, and gender--that provide the necessary legitimacy for the witch hunt to take place. In most cases examined here, seemingly petty conflicts within the villagers often escalate to a hunt. At the height of the conflict, the exploitative relationship between the plantation management and the adivasi migrant workers often gets hidden. The book demonstrates how witchcraft accusations should be interpreted within this backdrop of labor-planters relationship, characterized by rigidity of power, patronage, and social distance. Witches, Tea Plantations, and Lives of Migrant Laborers in India should appeal to criminologists, sociologists, anthropologists, labor historians, gender scholars, labor migration scholars, witch hunt and witchcraft accusation global scholars, adivasi scholars, South Asian scholars, and anyone interested in India s tribes, witchcraft accusations, gender in a global world, labor conflict, and Indian tea plantations."

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Wiccan Cuisine is a recipe deck for all who want to capture the magic of cooking and baking. Presented in a beautiful box with an accompanying instructional booklet, there are 50 recipe cards for savoury meals and sweet treats inspired by the Wheel of the Year. Perfect for aspiring kitchen and hearth witches, this deck makes it easy to add new magical meals to every menu. Using seasonal ingredients, there are recipes for both the mid-week supper and the festival feast with suggestions for how to celebrate the passing of the seasons with family and friends. The relationship between magic and food is long-standing and celebrated here along with the connection to nature. The recipes included are all designed to be changed or modified to fit different needs, tastes and intuitions with the author and kitchen witch Carla Torrents encouraging users of the deck to get it messy - the robust cards and box can withstand the heat and spills of a busy kitchen countertop! The accompanying booklet provides excellent tips and tricks, as well as practical information about weight conversions between imperial and metric measurements, and introduces the Wheel of the Year. Internationally minded, the dates of festivals and Sabbats are given for both northern and southern hemisphere witches so everyone can start making magic in the kitchen.