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Holy Ghost People

Worship Snakes - Literal Reading of bible - Book of Marc

Glossolalia

Speaking in tongues

Biological vs Social Adulthood

Physical vs Rite of Passage

Ritual

A secular of sacred, formal, solemn act, observance, or procedure in accordance with prescribed rules or customs

Rite of Passahe

Rituals associated with such critical changes in personal status as brith, puberty, marriage, and death

Female Circumcision

Control Women - Done by other women

Hysterectomy

Uterus removed

Manifest functions

Intended or Recognized

Latent Functions

Uninteded or Unrecognized

Unilineal Societies

Father or mother line

Patrilineal

Male Ancestors(Papa)

Matrilineal

Female Ancestors(Mama)

Polygyny

One man to more women

Sepik river Scarification

Rite of passage - evolved from crocodile

Tribe

Nominally independent villages, occupy area of land and share common language 2,000-20,000

Clan

A unilineal decent group based on fictive ancestors

Totem

An animal, a plant, or an object considered related to a kin group and viewed as sacred.

Sodalities

Links cultures that are not directly related

Tribal club

Less harsh males initiation

Tribal Secret Society

Secret initiation, sacred rituals, introduction to manhood

Communmitas

People are equal

Age Grade

All members who are of certain age and sex

Age Set

Same sex and age that move through age grade together

Ideological Rituals

Hearts and minds rituals

Rites of passage

Rituals associated with such critical changes in personal status as birth, puberty, marriage, and death.

Taboos

A scared prohibition put upon certain people, things, or acts that makes them untouchable, unmentionable, and so on.

Rites of Rebellion

Ritualized battles

Suspension

Requires pain and blood, not something easy to do

"Primitivism"

Unsophisticated

Ancestor Spirits

Old Spirits that stayed

Soul

The immortal or spiritual part of a person believed to separate from the physical body at death.

Magic

A ritual practice believed to compel the supernatural to act in a desired way

Contiguity

Direct contact with something

Similarity

Being similar

Post Hoc Fallacy

Relating two unrelated occurrences

Priest

Full-time religious specialist

Sorcery

Bad magiv

Ethnographic analogy

interpretation of beliefs based on historic events

Axis Mundi

Center of everything

Witch

Innate power to farm

Witchcraft

Explanation of misfortune

Navajo Witchcraft

Spells, Objects, Wereanimals

Corpse Poison

Ground up bones of dead, Gall bladder cure

Gall Medicine

Cure to corpse poison


Skinwalkers

Turn into animals they desire

Salem witch trails

People accused of witchcraft fro just about anything

Azande witchcraft

Rituals connected to protection and candeling of witchcraft

Chicken Oracle

Used to everyday ailments or events by checks death or living

Trail by ordeal

Assessing guilt or innocence through supernatural

Benge Poison

Poison Oravle used by Azande

Puritans

People of new world who take church very seriously

1692

Salem witchcraft trail

Convulsive Ergotism

Molf from Rye bread was responsible for some peoples behaviors

Wicca

Emphasises the use of good magic and not doing harm

Gerald Gardner

Good witch had to do with healing, Can mend or shape the flow of energy in the universe, Father of Wicca

Neopaganism

Polytheist, animistic or pantheist

Polytheism

Multiple gods

The One/All

Wiccan God

Great mother Goddess

Eaths Fertility

The God (Wicca)

Goddess or Horned God

Coven

Not initiated Wiccan

Days of power / Sabbats

Connected to Soulist

Yule

God is born - 12/12-22

Ostara

Symbol of fertility - Spring Equinox - 3/21-22

Beltane

Rituals of fertility - May 1st

Samhain

God dies - Rites of intensification

The Threefold Law

All good will come back threefold, all bad will come back threefold

Soliltaries

Tirbal Club, Tribal Secret Societies, Idelology

Diverse Styles of Wicca

Neopaganism

Energy

Natural energy in the universe

Principle of vibration

Universe vibrates

Mentalist

Mind is universe

Correspondence

As below, above, as above, below

Vibration

Everything is in motion

Polarity

Everything exists in paired opposites

Rythm

Eb and Flow (Tides)

Cause & Effect

Rituals people do to make sure things go right

Gender

Everything has masculine & Feminine