Tag: Anthropology of religion

You may call it bizarre and you would not be far from wrong.  The case where a young man was ...

Queen mothers in the Ashanti region are considering reintroducing puberty rites to curb the high rate of teenage pregnancies in ...

A middle aged Woman by name Kokro has been accused of using a young boy for money rituals. The woman ...

The move is to prevent any unhealthy occurrences during the week-long celebration A ban has been placed on party colours ...

From spells to win back an errant lover to help communing with the spirits, Myanmar's mediums, soothsayers and wizards dabbling ...

Deep in a trance and impervious to the heat of burning coals underfoot, lithe young men prance across piles of ...

A historian Dr Wilhemina Donkor has envisaged that the thirteenth queen mother of Asante Kingdom Nana Afia Serwaa Kobi Ampem ...

Nowadays a lot of people are turning to black magic in order to achieve all kinds of evil and selfish ...

The real world is a pain in the tooth; no one would like to live there. Unfortunately, reality slaps us ...

God hates idolatry/occultism with passion. In fact, this is the primary reason why He warned Israel against marrying from other ...

After reading Carmel Cassar's article on Witchcraft Beliefs and Social Control in Seventeenth Century Malta, one could easily conclude that ...