Witchcraft and sorcery are a hidden unknown work of society that is source problems harm to individuals in has dangerous role creating more belief among people. This problem an old renewed constantly over time spread from one era another. Currently, it living issue our the absence any legal text Iraqi Civil Code guidelines made intense society. We therefore make good academic effort uncover civ...

This paper presents an analysis of a ritual event memorialised on stone reliefs at the ancient city Carchemish around 800 BC. It is argued that represent ceremony investiture, in which boys royal lineage are handed out toys as oracular instruments to elicit favourable omens for heir apparent. The inclusion and their visual commemoration political has bearings three levels meaning. First, it tes...

In 1965, Gus Dinizulu, an African American percussionist, traveled to Ghana with the dance company he was leading. There, took trip as opportunity explore his roots and met Nana Oparebea, Ghanaian chief-priestess of Akonedi Shrine, north Accra. She performed for Dinizulu a divination, during which she explained that enslaved ancestors were part akan people gave him mission search other American...

This article brings Chosŏn dynasty (1392–1910) Korea into the discussion about various roles of Daoism in East Asian cultures which it has, unfortunately, all too often been absent. Based primarily on art-historical methodology and literary analysis, offers an overview many sorts sources materials that determine perspectives we have Daoism-related beliefs concepts during late Chosŏn. In contras...

Abstract The works of Julius Spier, a pupil C.G. Jung, provide perfect case study illustrating the psychologization chiromancy during Interbellum. His also highlights lack insight in way which hand-reading has evolved Europe since nineteenth century. After its appearance West, art reading hands generally been referred to as (hand divination, i.e. fortune-telling through palm). Thanks work Frenc...