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...leader Kristin A. Bevington `01 says, "It would be cool if you were trying to get into witchcraft or something. I mean, don't witchcraft people hunt for herbs and mushrooms and stuff?" Notwithstanding our general ignorance concerning fungi, a secret culture of mushroom afficionados quietly exists in America, stalking the forest floor in search of these rare delicacies...
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After having co-taught Eliot House's popular seminar on the Salem Witchcraze, Co-Master and Professor of Scandinavian and Folklore Steven A. Mitchell is now teaching Folklore and Mythology 108: "Witchcraft." The course explores the plights of witches all over the world and throughout history. It requires only two essays and a final and meets Tuesdays and Thursdays...
...local witch are in court over a Christian fish symbol adorning the town seal. Jean Webb, a local practitioner of the pagan Wicca faith wants it removed. Wicca, a faith based in pre-Christian European beliefs, upholds the sacredness of nature and includes the practice of witchcraft. The town is fighting the lawsuit; Webb alleges local citizens have had her fired from her job at the local newspaper and are subjecting her family to harassment. Removing the fish would leave the Republic's four-cornered seal bearing only three images -- the town's location on the Missouri map, a hand...
...Call it witchcraft if you like, but such rural healing is a major reason that nearly 95,000 demobilized soldiers and 5 million refugees have been absorbed back into society. In less than five years, Mozambique (pop. 18 million) has forged cohesion out of the animosities that tore it apart. The revered practices of communal tradition have succeeded, better than any modern forms of psychotherapy, in restoring a sense of unity to Mozambique's deeply riven clans. "National reconciliation started in the communities themselves," says Roberto Chavez, the World Bank director in Mozambique. "They were the main factor in bringing...