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Books > Mind, Body & Spirit > The Occult > Witchcraft & Wicca
A fascinating guidebook that reveals the true story of the Salem
witch trials and describes more than fifty important sites you can
visit today.
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Wicca. the Practitioner's Introductory Guide. Symbols, Herbs, History, Spells, Shops, Supplies, Clothing, Courses, Altar, Ritual, and Much More All Co
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The choice to walk the path is personal and the journey will vary.
For the beginning Wicca practitioner many questions arise. This
guide aims to answer your questions and help you on your path. What
is Wicca Basic Ethics and Principles of Wicca The History of Wicca
and Witchcraft Modern Wicca Wiccan Traditions Covens and Coven Life
Solitary Practitioners Other forms of Witchcraft The Wiccan Deities
Deciding to Become a Witch Dedicating Yourself to the Craft
Choosing Your Magickal Name The Magickal Cabinet Exploring Magickal
Tools Common Wiccan Tools Storing Magickal Tools Herbs and Crystals
Understanding Ritual The Wiccan Personal Altar Points of Ritual
Etiquette Wiccan Terminology And Much More Blessed Be
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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