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Bewitched cars & mail-order charms: witchcraft in modern France

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Is It Hard to Track the Origins of Witchcraft Disputs in the First World War?

Court system doesn't tend to function very well during the early years of the revolution. The number of cases that make it to court during the first onof wars suddenly drops off quite a lot. There is definitely the further you get towardsthe end of the nineteenth century, and then into the twentieth century, these disputes get overlaid. And with a lot of concerns about empire, colonialism, likeyour saying, and race. I think that does, partly comes from the newspapers.

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