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These proposed acts led to the children being imprisoned in filthy conditions, turned in by their own parents. [8] They were held for a year in solitary confinement before being transferred to a hospital. The last child was freed in 1729. [8] One example of a child-witch narrative in Germany is of a seven-year-old girl named Brigitta Horner. In ...
Witchcraft accusations against children in Africa have received increasing international attention in the first decade of the 21st century. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The phenomenon of witch-hunts in Sub-Saharan Africa is ancient, [ 4 ] but the problem has been exasperated due to charismatic preachers such as Helen Ukpabio . [ 4 ]
A preeminent example of this belief is the duotheistic veneration of a God-Goddess pairing, often the Triple Goddess and Horned God, a pairing used by Wiccans. [ 94 ] [ 98 ] The Goddess (representing the feminine ) is traditionally seen as receptive, fertile, nurturing, and passive (cast as the Moon ), while the God (representing the masculine ...
Much of the criticism of Harry Potter comes from a small number of evangelical Christians who hold that the series's depiction of witchcraft is dangerous to children. In 1999, Paul Hetrick, spokesperson for Focus on the Family, a US Evangelical Christian group based in Colorado Springs, Colorado, outlined the reasons for his opposition: "[They contain] some powerful and valuable lessons about ...
[example needed] For example, it was reported on 21 May 2008 that in Kenya a mob had burnt to death at least 11 people accused of witchcraft. [citation needed] The Western region of Kenya is particularly known for witch hunts, [23] and the district of Kisii has been labeled a "sorcery belt". In this region, elders are often targeted and labeled ...
Above all else, explains Garcia, the core of witchcraft is hardly ever tied to ideology or dogma, but rather it is a practice rooted in self-discipline and care.
Since then, Margaret Murray's theory of an organised pan-European witch-cult has been discredited, and doubts raised about the age of Wicca; many Wiccans no longer claim this historical lineage. However, it is still common for Wiccans to feel solidarity with the victims of the witch trials and, being witches, to consider the witch-craze to have ...
Various forms of Wicca have since evolved or been adapted from Gardner's British Traditional Wicca or Gardnerian Wicca, such as Alexandrian Wicca. Other forms loosely based on Gardner's teachings are Faery Wicca , Kemetic Wicca , Judeo-paganism or jewitchery, and Dianic Wicca or feminist Wicca, which emphasizes the divine feminine, often ...