ANGELA’S SYMPOSIUM 📖 Academic Study on Witchcraft, Paganism, esotericism, magick and the Occult
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Angela Puca covers Italian Shamanism, Paganism, folk magick, witchcraft, vernacular healers, the use of Segnature in relation to Social Media.
Paper delivered at the annual conference of the British Association for the Study of Religions in September 2019 at Leeds Trinity University.
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00:00 Introduction: Paper presentation to the BASR
00:53 Social media & Italian shamanism & folk magic
01:26 Methodology – Facebook group
05:38 Discourses emerging in the community
07:55 Core Shamanism & social media
09:49 Folk magic & social media
12:41 Changes to initiation to online rituals
14:18 The shared term of Segnature
16:00 Conclusion
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VofnYA6JgVo