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To: nickcarraway

I lived near the Navajo Reservation years ago and there are many who still believe in witches and skinwalkers.
Same for the Cherokee area of Oklahoma. I knew a white woman who believed she was affected by Cherokee witchcraft 20 years ago.


3 posted on 04/14/2024 1:01:54 PM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar

“It is not easy to draw a clear distinction between magic and witchcraft. Both are concerned with the producing of effects beyond the natural powers of man by agencies other than the Divine (cf. OCCULT ART, OCCULTISM). But in witchcraft, as commonly understood, there is involved the idea of a diabolical pact or at least an appeal to the intervention of the spirits of evil. In such cases this supernatural aid is usually invoked either to compass the death of some obnoxious person, or to awaken the passion of love in those who are the objects of desire, or to call up the dead, or to bring calamity or impotence upon enemies, rivals, and fancied oppressors. This is not an exhaustive enumeration, but these represent some of the principal purposes that witchcraft has been made to serve at nearly all periods of the world’s history.”


4 posted on 04/14/2024 1:29:54 PM PDT by KierkegaardMAN (I never engage in a battle of wits with an unarmed man.)
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