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Month: January 2019

I Doubt Some Foul Play

Originally posted on Creative Histories of Witchcraft:
When I tell people that I research witchcraft, I am often asked whether people really believed in witchcraft. I like to pause when someone asks this, because there is a good answer to this question, and a true answer. The good answer, the one that people want to hear, is the…

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