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This article is about witchcraft and its different varieties of practices in different cultures. This article explains how witchcraft exists and plays an essential part in structural and functional aspects of a society. It also sheds the light on the journey of witchcraft from being profane and wicked to acceptable part of a culture.

C. A tradition hat is also worn. All the tradition clothes are all hand-made and stitched in multiple patterns.

Traditions have been around forever, and are all around us today. Holidays such as Mardi Gras, are ones deep in tradition and festive origins. This crazy holiday, has changed and grown all over the world since first celebrated. Cities such as Rio de Janeiro, Brazil and New Orleans, United States hold some of the greatest celebrations of this holiday. Here they bake, dance, parade and and throw beads all through this four day holiday. Symbols such as colors, food, and dance are some mysteries of Mardi Gras that have more meaning than many people may think. Planning of these traditions starts about six months beforehand, by groups called krewes. Mardi Gras is a holiday deep in tradition and religion that has greatly developed

A celebration of Beltane ritual of life symbolically a chalice and athame (the Goddess and the God). The athame is inserted in the chalice (God into the Goddess). The Great Rite ritual that was created by and for farmers asking for a blessing for the livestock, crops and a good year of harvesting. A positive act and it can just an easily be misunderstood or abused. It has accountability also and needs to be answered for. Drawing of the energy from male and female during a spring festival. When we look at the people of the ancient Pagan religions we see that all the celebrations and rituals surrounded a specific purpose: survival.

These rituals usually start as the sun rises. The tribe will start heading towards the shrine. When they reach it they will wait outside and start making food in honor off their god “Hawkeye”. They will also drink an elixir made out of barley, hops and yeast with water. The tribe believes this elixir brings the tribe closer together and allows the mind to talk their god more easily. They will continue to drink this elixir for hours until they have consumed enough to go to the shrine and start the religious ritual.

The town of Angelica held its annual Heritage Days festival on August 6th and 7th. The event acts to showcase and celebrate the history of the town and people connected to it. As I am a historian and this my home town, I tend to attend this event, and this year was no different.

Los Voladores de Papantla or Dances of the flyers is an ancient Mexican ceremony. It is an ancient ceremony and ritual that is still performed. The ritual is performed by five people in conjunction with a pole, a flute and a drum. The reason for the ceremony is to ask their gods for rain and fertility of the earth to return. The actual origin is unknown due to different civilization doing the same ritual. Mexico is the most known place where this ceremony occurs but it is also being done in central and some parts of South America. To this day, people are still performing this ceremony because it is an ancient ritual that connected humans with the gods. There is a small variety of performances but they all share the same roots. Majority of the people have forgotten the real meaning of the ritual but the some of the old people still attend for the real meaning of it. The ritual of Los Voladore de Papantla has a lot of Aztec history and customs.

For example every year, millions of Mexicans get together in the streets to celebrate Mexico’s Independence the night before with el Grito de Dolores. On el Dia de Los Muertos, people go out to the cemeteries of their beloved family members to decorate their tombs with beautiful flowers, and the streets are filled with people

Now, this is what you call a celebration, each year is exciting more and more. I’ve met a variety of people, from various parts of Africa, and from many cities in the United States. I would sum it [Juneteenth Festival] up as a huge family reunion in the park.

I picked Santo Domingo because it was where I was born and raised. Not only is it beautiful, it is also incredibly interesting location to live. Santo Domingo is filled with cool caves that visitors can travel to as well as a beautiful waterfalls and rivers. The beaches are considered one of the best in the world. That just a few of the reason I picked Santo Domingo.

Carnaval de Paris- thousands of people fill the streets while dancing, singing, and eating on the erstwhile Feast of Fools.

Timbuktu is a movie based in the small town of Timbuktu in the middle of the desert. The family in the movie lives just a simple life of herding cattle and minding their own business. This is a family orientated group of people till Islamic extremists come into town and turn their world upside down. Their son spends his days herding cattle like he should for his father. As the son herds the cattle there most prized cattle wonders into the fishing net of a fisher man. The fisher man kills the cow just for that reason. Just because the cow messed your net up, doesn't mean u have to kill it. The father was out raged by this. I would be to in that case. As the son’s father confronts the man they struggle and the fisherman dies. The Islamic extremists

* Describe when the ritual takes place. Does it respond to some particular event? It is held at specific time of year? Is it held on a regular basis? Is it performed only when needed?

The country I chose to do my report on is Fiji. I don’t know much about the country, but I like to drink Fiji water and I know it comes from there. I also think the name Fiji sounds pretty cool. I learned that Fiji was originally named “Viti” but when the islanders were pronouncing it, it sounded like ”Fiji”, so that is how it got recorded.

The Enlightenment and the emerging of modern rationalism have paved the way to a worldview where the suspicion of witchcraft is not needed to explain the mysterious phenomena of this world. This is not the case in Africa. The belief in the existence of witches, evil persons who are able to harm others by using mystical powers, is part of the common cultural knowledge. Samuel Waje Kunhiyop states, “Almost all African societies believe in witchcraft in one form or another. Belief in witchcraft is the traditional way of explaining the ultimate cause of evil, misfortune or death.” The African worldview is holistic. In this perception, things do not just happen. What happens, either good or bad, is traced back to human action,