Delfín's Shamanism Class S2020

Baseball Magic: Superstitions in football and the military                   While the article focuses on interviews and accounts of superstitions, taboo, rituals, and the uncertainty of magic my focus will be on two areas that influenced my life greatly. While I never gave it a second thought  I created habits and rituals during my senior at Summit High school in 2012. After we won our first game,  the only music I listened to was the scratched Guns and Roses CD I had listened to in my truck that day. Even though the CD could only pay about half of the songs without skipping, I never took it out of the CD player. I had a pair of cleats that by our final championship game were held together by duct tape, shoe glue, and hope. I could never bring myself to get another pair, something about those cleats were special, and I still have them today. While my strange actions and habits were not shared by others on the team they all h...

Spirituality in Haitian Vodou By Frank Nieblas What is Vodou? According to Karen McCarthy Brown, vodou is the name assigned to the various religious practices that originated in Haiti. Only until recently, Haitians have started using the word vodou to describe their religion. This religion is still the dominant religion in Haiti today, and it is even largely practiced in some other places such as New Orleans and Santiago, Cuba.  Like many other non-Chrisitan religions, western society has seriously misrepresented Vodou. Americans have adopted the word vodou as a derogatory term for black magic. History of Haitian Vodou According to Britannica, “Vodou is a creolized religion formed by colonial Europeans and native Haitians’ interactions with the beliefs of African slaves who had been brought to colonial Haiti which was known then as Saint-Domingue”.  These African slaves that were brought in the 16th century were forced to convert t...

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OUR FAMILIES ARE KILLING US By Sarah Clausen Caprivi Region Background: An upsurge in illness and death has occurred in the Caprivi Region in Africa due to the HIV prevalence rates of 43% amongst the adult population. Although this is a known diagnosis of HIV, few claimed to know anyone with AIDS and even fewer had taken an HIV test. This is because people of the Caprivi region believe that the illnesses are associated with witchcraft and not HIV or AIDS (Thomas 281). Witchcraft: In this article, Felicity Thomas stated that “witchcraft accusations are commonly associated with major socioeconomic changes as well as strained relations within a society” (Thomas 281). Research was done in the 1960s and the conclusion was that, people of the Caprivi Region believe them, it is because of someone who has malice in them who wants to do harm to others. Subsequently, the symptoms that correspond with the illness that’s “caused” by witchcraft, are the same symptoms associated with HIV and ...