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different types of witches, white and black. White witches were the “wise women” and helpful within communities. If someone in the town was ill or was having problems, they would usually go visit a witch. Witches would use herbs such as mandrakes, datura, monkshood, cannabis, belladonna, henbane, and hemlock to make healing potions. On the other hand, black witches were seen as people who practiced magic to cause physical or practical harm to another person or object. Black witches were also thought

Plants are important life forms belonging to the taxonomic kingdom Plantae and are classified further by the hierarchical system to group similar plants together. Taxonomy is described as “the method by which scientists, conservationists, and naturalists classify and organize the vast diversity of living things on this planet in an effort to understand the evolutionary relationships between them” (Fenneman, 2017). How a plant is classified can be a clue to the uses for that plant in regards to

became beneficial to the people needing it, helping the overall advancement. They integrated many natural ingredients from their area to create an alcoholic beverage used to make the patient unconscious. Chicha was made of ingredients such as tobacco, datura, Espino, tobacco, San Pedro cactus, and coca (National Geographic 2008). Even today, people still consume the non-alcoholic version as a way of accepting Peruvian culture. The creation of chicha forwarded advancements in medicine today, such as the

Seated on his couch, watching a black and white movie, Cander attempts to unwind from the days work. Still present is a scatter of papers across the table in front of him. His phone rings, surprised to receive a call at so late of an hour, he answers inquisitively. “Hello?” “Cander! It’s Greene.” “Isabelle? Where the heck did you go today?” “I’ll explain later. Can you meet me? At the coffee house, on 11th?” “Now? It’s kind of late.” “You don’t need the sleep, just meet me.” Greene hangs up

In Machiavelli’s “The Prince”, Machiavelli is able to express and display his own theories and views on how a prince should act in certain situations. The style that Machiavelli uses to explain himself it is very straight forward and most of the time the opposite of what people would think. Machiavelli’s concept of being a lion and fox appears in Somadeva’s “The Red Lotus of Chastity” , where two of the main characters Devasmita and the nun, Yogakarandita, both attempt to follow Machiavelli’s concept

Due to culture, different countries have their different ways of life. This reflects their beliefs, values, religion, attitude, social habits, music, dance and more. Dance differs from country to country although a dance could be practiced in other countries. In the Middle Eastern part of the world, they have a famous type of dance called the “Belly Dance”. The Middle Eastern dance is an umbrella term that consists of all dances of the Middle East and its neighboring areas from both the past and

recorded for this species are not native to the Hawaiian Islands. The non-natives include: commercial tobacco (Nicotiana tabacum), tree tobacco (Nicotiana glauca), eggplant (Solanum melongena), tomato (Lycopersicon esculentum), and possibly, Jimsonweed (Datura stramonium). Blackburn’s sphinx moth adults have been documented feeding on nectar of the native Hawaiian morning glory species, Ipomoea indica. The Hawaiian native caper (Capparis sandwichiana) and wild leadwort (Plumbago zeylanica) are also likely

One of the two main religions in India is Hinduism. It is also the world’s third largest religion with its followers being in the billions. Hinduism however was not founded by an entity or person, time, or book. There are many different beliefs and viewpoints that do not always line up with one another but it only those who practice Hinduism can understand and partake in these discussions. An article written by Christian Violatti explains that it is why such practices such as yoga or meditation

Of course, most people don’t believe in the undead, and for good reason. Some people who claim to be Vampires or Vampire hunters are in fact only doing it to get attention, such as the Dogs Of War “vampire hunting group” who later admitted to being frauds.(www.choronzon.com) There are also many conflicting ideas of what a vampire is, or on definitions of vampires. Vourdalak vampires, for instance, are always female, whereas, while females are more commonly vampires, it is by no means a rule in other

Imagine if hordes of undead were actually real. How zombies could exist. Zombies seem like a crazy idea, and many have tried to bring them from myth to fact, but it could be possible. What actually is a zombie though? There are many different variations of “Zombies”, from african voodoo, to the modern World War Z. Yet you can't really define what a zombie is though, the base term is someone who has been reanimated and has motor functions. In today's media, zombie is a very popular term. Making