15. I've Got 10 Demons and a Crowbar That Says You Ain't Gonna Do Jack

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This episode concludes our discussion on witchcraft and witch hunts. It's a little less spooky and a little more actual, real-life horrifying. Hannah talks a bit about the words used to describe Malaysian witchcraft, Wu-ism and Mu-ism, and as always, colonial India.
As Hannah mentions at the end of the episode, please considering donating your money, time, and/or energy to the following organizations that work to advocate for women affected by gender-based violence.
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End Violence Against Women International (EVAWI)
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Created and co-hosted by Georgia Abrams and Hannah Rucinski.
Sound design by Shannon Webster.
Inspired by your mom's pillow talk.
For further reading:
https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/4BD60748A6726AB2D71F44C11863E105/S0021911800045460a.pdf/understanding-witchcraft-and-sorcery-in-southeast-asia-edited-by-c-w-watson-and-roy-ellen-honolulu-university-of-hawaii-press-1993-vii-222-pp-dollar3200.pdf
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_shamanism
Libbrecht, Ulrich (2007). Within the Four Seas--: Introduction to Comparative Philosophy. Peeters Publishers. ISBN 978-90-429-1812-2.
di Cosmo, Nicola (1999), "Manchu shamanic ceremonies at the Qing court", in McDermott, Joseph P. (ed.), State and Court Ritual in China, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 352–98, ISBN 0-521-62157-7.
https://globalhistorydialogues.org/projects/same-origin-different-paths/
https://www.womenepal.org/witch-hunting/
https://asiafoundation.org/2012/08/08/legislating-against-witchcraft-accusations-in-nepal/
Tan, Michael L. (2008). Revisiting Usog, Pasma, Kulam. University of the Philippines Press.
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14753820.2015.1039387
Sarfati, Lora (2021). Contemporary Korean Shamanism: From Ritual to Digital. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.
https://journals.library.brandeis.edu/index.php/caste/article/view/203
Skaria, Ajay (May 1997). "Women, witchcraft and gratuitous violence in colonial Western India". Past & Present. 155 (1): 109–141.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/13/world/asia/india-witch-hunting.html

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