SRS 1110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Axiology, Witch Doctor, Occultation

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Religious Studies
• Course: SRS 1110
• Professor: Shelley Rabinovitch

Document Summary

Mage, magi: greatest wise man that manipulates magic, mostly men from stigma of witch hunts: 5 types of witchcraft, anthropological witchcraft do strange things on earth (cursing, spells) Witch doctor called shaman who masters or guides spirits: historical witchcraft hunting of witches & burning them. Women are called witches and men are called warlocks (waer loga oath breakers: religious witchcraft self identified, practice pre-christianity, walking away from judaism & Wicca is the religion, and women and men are called witches: feminists/goddess worship/political witchcraft (cid:373)odels of (cid:449)o(cid:373)e(cid:374) that a(cid:396)e(cid:374)"t (cid:272)o(cid:374)t(cid:396)olled (cid:271)(cid:455) men, nothing to do with religion, saints witchcraft /satanism (neo-satanism) Witch female, they never chose the title; usually people call them that, they get their power from evil. Sorcerer (ess): male or female, it comes from a latin word (sorce) and it means fate, these people try to bend and effect fate, they do it through books (easy child birth)