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Post by Admin on Nov 11, 2015 1:49:28 GMT
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Post by anniee on Nov 14, 2015 18:28:44 GMT
www.youtube.com/watch?v=hsNvDuNOqKkIn the video linked above by The Young Turks, women in rural parts of India were being accused of witchcraft in order to controlled. One quote in the video read, "Superstition is only an excuse. Often a woman is branded a witch so that you can throw her out of the village and grab her land, or to settle scores, family rivalry, or because powerful men want to punish her for spurning their sexual advances. Sometimes, it is used to punish women who question social norms." These women would be burned and tortured before their murders, as well as sometimes even being gang-raped. The process of accusing a woman of being a witch involved incantations, reports, potions, and even the branches of a sal tree: the names of the potential witch candidates would be written on separate branches of a sal tree, and those whose branches withered would be called witches. What was interesting about this video was the similarities between the denunciation of the "witch" children and women. During cluncool, we learned about that children in Africa were being accused of witchcraft, and this video was outlining the exact same process happening to a different group of people in a different country. The accusers were picking the people who were powerless, who were lacking the ability to fight back and the support of anyone to defend them, which in this case was women. The reporters also mentioned, as we had in cluncool, that the only way to fight such ignorance was with education, a notion that I agree with. We have to teach those around us about the benefits of gender equality and the current state of the misogynistic, patriarchal society, so that the people can approach the problem as a community. The mindset of many people will have to be changed for women not to be taken advantage of.
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Post by mayurika98 on Nov 15, 2015 9:33:17 GMT
I wonder if this witch hunting has to do with their religions in Africa and India. Religion certainly does affect the way people look at witches in ancient England according to the stories we have seen. At least their excuse for accusing witches can be for the church to gain power. In the case of these accusations in the video, what is the purpose?
The video mentions superstition. In Buddhism dreams have a lot to do with superstition and predicting the future. I have a friend who was once accused of being a witch. Her mother had a dream the day before the baby was born and she saw dark things. She had a very painful birth which, when she met with a palm reader, she was told that her child was a witch. The child was abandoned and later found by another family. The mother was arrested for abandoning the child.
Like this, superstition and other ideas that fill our mind can lead to easier manipulation.
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Post by Tharu on Nov 22, 2015 9:14:00 GMT
When we were talking about this in the cluncool, i was in like an internal conflict with my mind, about the magic stuff that we have in our country. Basically the thing is that there are some people in our country who is able to have a communication with the death. Just like angel reading, they talk to the dead people, and they literary say the truth. So i was like is this witch craft too? Because some people use these type of methods to see destruction in others, such as wishing them bad luck which is pretty much similar what they talked about in the story about Sarah Good. www.reuters.com/article/2012/04/18/us-saudi-witchcraft-rights-idUSBRE83H0UM20120418#mQGVAaYm4Vk4wJIs.97 This is not a video, but something that is related to what im talking about. |
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