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Witchcraft beliefs around the world: An exploratory analysis.
Boris GershmanThe regulation of witchcraft and sorcery practices and beliefs.
Miranda ForsythChild abuse linked to faith or belief: working towards recognition in practice
Nursing Children and Young People
Tighe Clark, M., Littlemore, J., Taylor, J., Debelle, G. 2022
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The problems and victims of sorcery and witchcraft practices and beliefs in Melanesia: An introduction.
Miranda Forsyth and Richard EvesGender violence & human rights seeking justice in Fiji, Papua New Guinea & Vanuatu.
Aletta Biersack, Margaret Jolly and Martha Macintyre.Sorcery talk, gender violence and the law in Vanuatu.
John P. Taylor and Natalie G. AraújoWitchcraft and sorcery-related killings in Melanesia: The Legal Issues.
Miranda ForsythPreying on those close to home: witchcraft violence in a Papua New Guinea Village.
Dan JorgensenPolicing in a relational state: the case of sorcery accusation-related violence in Papua New Guinea.
Miranda ForsythDeveloping community laws to address sorcery and witchcraft-related violence in Papua New Guinea.
Richard Eves‘Kill all the sorcerers’: The interconnections between sorcery, violence, war and peace in Bougainville.
Miranda Forsyth.Ten preliminary findings concerning sorcery accusation-related violence in Papua New Guinea.
Miranda Forsyth.Sorcery accusation–related violence in Papua New Guinea Part 1: Questions and methodology.
Miranda Forsyth, Judy Putt, Thierry Bouhours and Brigitte BouhoursSorcery accusation related violence in Papua New Guinea: The impact of SARV on children.
Miranda Forsyth, Philip Gibbs, William Kipongi and Ibolya LosonczSorcery and witchcraft beliefs on the front line of public health response in Papua New Guinea and beyond
Miranda Forsyth, Joanne Taylor, Tambri Housen, Celeste Marsh, Philip Gibbs and William KipongiAn indigenous safehouse project for survivors of witchcraft accusation in the highlands of Papua New Guinea
Michael MainFor further publications concerning the issue in PNG, go here.
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Self-defence against metaphysical witch attacks: A legal conundrum in Anglophone Africa.
Emmanuel Sarpong Owasu, 2024The challenges of protecting people accused of misusing supernatural powers in South Sudan.
Research report on CSRF South Sudan Blog, 2023Child witchcraft confessions as an idiom of distress in Sierra Leone; results of a rapid qualitative inquiry and recommendations for mental health interventions.
Yoder, H.N.C., de Jong, J.T.V.M., Tol, W.A. et al. 2021, https://doi.org/10.1186/s13034-021-00370-w,Witchcraft-related abuse and murder of children with albinism in Sub-Saharan Africa: A conceptual review
Child Abuse Review
Taylor, J.; Lund, P., Bradbury-Jones, C. 2019Witchcraft, wealth and disability: Reinterpretation of a folk belief in contemporary urban Africa.
Nora Groce and Julia McGeown, 2013Children accused of witchcraft: An anthropological study of contemporary practices in Africa.
Aleksandra Cimpric. UNICEFChildren in African witch-hunts: An introduction for scientists and social workers.
Felix RiedelNo peace in the house: Witchcraft accusations as an "old woman's problem" in Ghana.
Alexandra CramptonWitchcraft accusations and female homicide victimization in contemporary Ghana.
Mensah AdinkrahWitchcraft accusations and human rights: Case studies from Malawi.
Mgbako, Chi Adanna; Glenn, KatherineWitchcraft, sorcery, rumors, and gossip.
Pamela J. Steward, Andrew StrathernWitchcraft accusations and Christianity in Africa.
J. Kwabena Asamoah-GyadWitchcraft and the state in South Africa.
Johannes Harnischfeger
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Witch hunting: A case of gender violence in the garb of vigilantism in India.
Mohammad Tarique IqbalGendered injustice: A comparative analysis of witchcraft beliefs and witchcraft-related violence in Ghana and Nepal.
A Mensah, A PrakashAccusations of witchcraft: A form of violence against women in Nepal.
Alok Atreya, Shreyashi Aryal, Samata Nepal, Binu NepalWitchcraft allegations and untouchability as forms of violence upon women in Nepal: A 7-year study.
Samata Nepal, Alok Atreya, Binu Nepal, Richa Shah, Rolina Dhital and Shreyashi AryaAccusations of witchcraft in Nepal: Problems and impact on women.
Raj Kumari GurungWomen as easy scapegoats: Witchcraft accusations and women as targets in tea plantations of India.
Soma ChaudhuriWitchcraft and witch unhting in India: An Assessment.
Shamsher Alam, Aditya RajDivining evil: The state and witchcraft in Bastar.
Nandini SundarWitchcraft: Pain, resistance and the ceremony of punishment—Mahasweta Devi’s Bayen.
Vanya Vanashree
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“Sorcerer” killings in Banyuwangi: A re-examination of state responsibility for violence.
Nicholas HerrimanRumours of sorcery at an Indonesian university.
Robert WessingSorcery, modernity and social transformation in Banyuwangi, East Java.
Caroline Campbell and Linda H. ConnorSupernaturalist curers and sorcery accusations in Thailand.
Louis Golomb
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Mass inhumation and the execution of witches in the American Southwest.
J. Andrew DarlingThe enemy within: Child sorcery, revolution, and the evils of modernization in Eastern Peru.
Fernando Santos-GraneroBurning witches: The moral dilemmas of Ashaninka Leaders.
Enrique Delgado Ramos and Susana FrisanchoIn darkness and secrecy: The anthropology of assault sorcery and witchcraft in Amazonia.
Rodriguez, Juan Luis
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Between shadow and solace -The spiritual lives of street children in Bukavu, the Democratic Republic of Congo.
2018. PhD Thesis, University of Dundee, Eva Francisca Maria KrahAccusations of spirit possession and witchcraft: Exploring the experiences and outcomes for accused and non-accused children within the family.
2022. PhD Thesis, University of Sussex, Leethen Bartholomew