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"Beautifully written, funny, engaging, informative, helpful. Not only will you learn your magical name and how to work the crossroads, but you'll also come away with reliable knowledge of witch gods, saints, history, and mythology. This book is a call to action: tend to...

The wonderful tales offered in this bilingual collection provide readers with a new set of living stories that give insight into the current traditional ways and daily habits of Guatemala's Tz'utujil Maya people--traditions that are fast disappearing. Anthropologist James D. Sexton and Maya storyteller...

A cutting-edge look into a pivotal moment in US history: McCarthy's infamous "witch hunt" for communists during the 1950's Red Scare. At the cusp of the Cold War, Americans were so afraid of communists living among them that they began to hunt them like...

There is more folklore, mythology and magic associated with our trees and forests than with any other living things. Known throughout the world as dark and wild places where witches make mischief and eerie creatures dwell, forests are also places of sanctuary for the...

The Witch's Garden describes over 50 of the world's most powerful, harmful, legendary and storied plants--from the screaming mandrake to calming St. John's Wort, to predicting the weather with seaweed, the creation of salves for broken hearts, sore heads, protection from evil spirits and...

An in-depth investigation of traditional European folk medicine and the healing arts of witches - Explores the outlawed "alternative" medicine of witches suppressed by the state and the Church and how these plants can be used today - Reveals that female shamanic medicine can...

Witchcraft is a subject that fascinates us all. Indeed, from childhood most of us develop some mental image of a witch--usually an old woman, mysterious and malignant. But why do witches still feature so heavily in our cultures and consciousness? From Halloween superstitions to...

A mystical guide to the history and mythology of witches and wizards from around the world by expert Dr. Angela Puca, perfect for fans of Harry Potter! For centuries, people have told stories about witches and wizards. But where do these tales come from?...

Author: Patrick W. GainerPublisher: Vandalia PressPublished: 03/01/2008Pages: 220Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.75lbsSize: 8.53h x 5.99w x 0.63dISBN: 9781933202204

Exposing how "witch" and "slut" are used to police female sexuality, the author rehabilitates these sex positive archetypes.Author: Kristen J. SolleePublisher: Threel MediaPublished: 06/20/2017Pages: 200Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.45lbsSize: 8.40h x 5.40w x 0.50dISBN: 9780996485272About the AuthorKristen J. Sollee teaches undergraduate gender studies courses at...

We are witnessing a new surge of interpersonal and institutional violence against women, including new witch hunts. This surge of violence has occurred alongside an expansion of capitalist social relations. In this new work that revisits some of the main themes of Caliban and...

Speculative fiction, art, social science and ornithology take flight together in this imaginative reader proposing a multispecies dialogue with birdsFollowing the runaway success of A Tree, With a Bird, is the second installment in Onomatopee's five-year, five-volume publication series creating "rich encounters between folklore...

When Edgar A. Love, Oscar J. Cooper, Frank Coleman, and Ernest Everett Just founded the historically Black fraternity Omega Psi Phi on November 17, 1911, at Howard University, they could not have known how great of an impact their organization would have on American...

Knitting, sewing, embroidery, quilting--throughout history, these and other forms of textile work have often been dismissed as merely "women's work" and attached to ideas of domesticity and obedience. Yet, as psychologist and avid knitter Nicole Nehrig wonderfully explores in this captivating book, textile work...

Knitting, sewing, embroidery, quilting--throughout history, these and other forms of textile work have often been dismissed as merely "women's work" and attached to ideas of domesticity and obedience. Yet, as psychologist and avid knitter Nicole Nehrig wonderfully explores in this captivating book, textile work...

A memoir of hard-fought lessons and the price for justice. When the local government in Ferguson, Missouri, and federal authorities failed in their duty to serve justice in 2014, college sophomore Jonathan Pulphus committed to being in the streets and battling for justice in...

For readers of Atul Gawande and Paul Kalanithi, a palliative care doctor's breathtaking stories from 30 years spent caring for the dying. Modern medical technology is allowing us to live longer and fuller lives than ever before. And for the most part, that is...

From Sarah Weinman, author of Scoundrel and The Real Lolita, comes an eye-opening story about the first major spousal rape trial in America and urgent questions it raised about women's rights that would reverberate for decades.In 1978, Greta Rideout was the first woman in...

Without Exception is an unflinching call for freedom by way of abortion rights. "A story told with honesty. I thank Pam Houston for this timely and timeless book"--CAMILLE T. DUNGY, Soil: The Story of a Black Mother's GardenWritten with equal parts candor and lyricism,...

"Many people today, despite the evidence, will not believe--don't want to believe--that such atrocities happened in America not so very long ago. These photographs bear witness to . . . an American holocaust." -John Lewis, US CongressmanThe Tuskegee Institute records the lynching of 3,436...