Lettice Galbraith’s ghost stories are largely excluded from histories of the Victorian supernatural. Despite writing within a genre popular in 1890s, little is known her biography, literary circle or influences. Like other 1890s writers, Galbraith capitalised on public fascination with tropes crime narratives – foggy London streets, sensational newspaper snippets, violence and suppressed scanda...

I>~ a previous essay we gave a cursory consideration to a wide-spread popular delusion, which had taken the form of demonology and divination, or "the black art." We then thought it probable that, as "one fire puts out another burning," and similia similibus curantur, this more recent absurdity would extinguish, or at least counteract, the follies of mesmerism. In this idea we were mistaken; fo...

Old Russian scribes repeatedly tried to refute and devalue the abilities of sorcerers in works various genres. However, despite all attempts instill people a negative attitude towards sorcery, seventeenth century, both commoners rulers turned for help magicians, sorcerers, whisperers, astrologers, shamans, etc. at difficult times their lives. A centuries-old tradition behind such appeals forced...

One of the loci classici for Renaissance witchcraft debate is 1 Samuel 28, story about King Saul's desperate consultation a female necromancer in Endor at eve his battle against Philistines. The demonization woman reached its climax learned concept as it circulated throughout Europe and on British Isles late medieval early modern period. much-maligned also featured prominently only treatise eve...

BACKGROUND In Solomon Islands many people with Tuberculosis (TB) have challenges in accessing services because of socio-cultural, geographic and health service reasons, resulting in delays in TB treatment and low detection rates. The purpose of this project was to (i) develop a local language audio-visual resource (DVD) about TB (ii) share this resource with people in remote villages and (iii) ...

Bapra Simi, an Ambonwari spiritual healer living in the border town of Vanimo Papua New Guinea comments that “Earth is full rubbish” and associates this material overflow with possible causes consequences sorcery. This short explanatory paper accompanies video entitled Glasmeri, Spiritual Healer, (Vávrová, 2020), which follows Simi through her healing practices, articulation how these practices...