The program offered by the Adelaide University’s Center for Professional and Continuing Education includes 12-week training about the shamans from the forests of Amazon, African witchdoctors from the valleys of Zambia and also about the witches reigning during the sixteenth the 16th century. More...
The word “witch” has always been associated with something evil and bad. This is not a random association but a deep-rooted social past is involved here. History has witnessed women in various parts of the world to have been associated and (most of the times, wrongly), accused and held for any unexplained misfortunes or bad happenings.
They have even been murdered through these charges. These women were referred to as witches. This kind of happenings rose alarmingly during the 17th century, when women who were perceived to be a little “different” from the average ones were subjected to bad times. Witch-hunts started in full swing in various countries of the world, right from England, France, Scotland and Germany to Ireland, Spain, Sweden, Austria, etc. once the stigma of witch or a bad omen was attached to these women, they were never allowed to live free by the then society. More...
The names of famous witches are something any child who has done even a spot reading of the fantasy-filled stories and fairy tales. Where most of us will stumble is we would be asked about the names and the existence of some of the witches who existed in the real world at some point in its history or still lives in the present.
In fact, some of these witches are believed to possess a few of the powers that are often mentioned in the fairy tales related to them. More...