Witches
Why have so many women in different cultures and eras been denounced as witches? And why does the idea of a dangerous woman with supernatural powers persist all over the world?
Why have so many women in so many different cultures and eras been denounced as witches? Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Africa’s Sammy Awami visits a village in his home country of Tanzania where, just four months ago, five women were murdered after being accused of witchcraft. Sammy meets a witch doctor who believes he has met a witch and talks to a local politician who is trying to stop the killings. We also hear from Professor Dianne Purkiss, an expert on the European witch hunts of the Early Modern period. And he travels to Glastonbury in the South West of England to meets a modern-day witch, Liz Williams, owner of the Cat and Cauldron witchcraft shop.
(Image: Villagers in N. Tanzania where people have been accused of being witches, Credit: Sammy Awami/Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ)
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What do you do if you think you’ve been cursed?
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- Mon 18 Dec 2017 13:32GMTΒι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ World Service except News Internet
- Mon 18 Dec 2017 20:06GMTΒι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ World Service Online, Americas and the Caribbean, UK DAB/Freeview & Europe and the Middle East only
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- Tue 19 Dec 2017 02:32GMTΒι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ World Service except News Internet
- Christmas Day 2017 06:32GMTΒι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ World Service South Asia
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