Today’s episode is a re-release featuring the hosts of Unpacking the Eerie, Akshi and Shae Na. Our conversation focuses on witchhunts as a way of silencing and making people submissive. Including witchhunts in India, the impact of colonialism, the creation of Brujeria in Mexico due to the Spanish Inquisition (Mexican Inquisition), and colonial persecution of the Yuta in the Ryukyu Kingdom (now known as Okinawa).
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Sources:
Okinawa Resilience and Resistance a Study of the Yuta in Okinawan Yuta Shamans look to Spirits for Guidance Onarigami Salem Witch Trials
India Chutni Mahato the Witchhunt Survivor Awarded Padmashri for Helping Women The Witching Hour Witch Hunts in India Witch Branding and Police Response: A Case Study Thousands of Women Accused of Sorcery, Tortured, and Executed in Indian Witch Hunts This Jharkhand Woman Leads War Against Social Evil Witchcraft Rescues Over 120 Women Chutni Devi the Journey from Witch to Tigress Exorcising Evil Chutni Mahato from Birbans in Jharkhand Awarded the Padma Shri for Her Fight Against Witch Hunting.
Brujeria & The Mexican Inquisition
Bishops Role in the Mexican Inquisition
Mexican Inquisition
History of Spanish Royal Family
New Spain
Teuchitlán Culture
History of Tequila
Reformation
Indigenous Jalisco
Mixton War
Charles V
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