“She Come Like a Nightmare”: Hags, Witches and the Gendered Trans-Sense among the Enslaved in the Lower South

In the historiography of slave culture and folk beliefs in the U.S. South, the hag of African American lore has generally been more closely allied with Western European lineages than West African antecedents. Using the cultures of the upper Guinea coast in addition to Western European witchcraft dis...

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Main Author: Wells-Oghoghomeh, Alexis S. (Author)
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Language:English
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Published: The Pennsylvania State University Press [2017]
In: Journal of Africana religions
Year: 2017, Volume: 5, Issue: 2, Pages: 239-274
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Südstaaten, USA / Slave / Witch / Popular belief / Rise of
RelBib Classification:AE Psychology of religion
AG Religious life; material religion
BB Indigenous religions
KBQ North America
NBE Anthropology
NBH Angelology; demonology
TJ Modern history
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