... the supposed attack from these malignant spirits and in response to matters of physical and psychical ill health the Ju have developed an effective method of social healing based on the principle of n/um. N/um is believed to be a substance that lies in the pit of the stomach of men and women. The power of n"um is dormant in the body's normal condition so a special dance has ... !Kia dance I have tried to understand what functions the dance can perform even if I no supernatural activity like the presence of //gangwasi is existent. Some consequences of the dance are not immediately or pur...

• Word Count: 2669
• Approx Pages: 11
• Grade Level: High School

... 1692 resulted in nineteen innocent men and women being hanged, one man pressed to death, and in the deaths of more than seventeen who died in jail. It all began at the end of 1691 when a few girls in the town began to experiment with magic by gathering around a crystal ball to ... to their village. The children still were not able to come up with names for their perpetrators until a little thirteen-year-old girl, Ann Putnam, cried out the name of Martha Corey. Corey, like Osborne, was not poor at all. While she was being tried, Martha Corey had the audacity ... it was a man, woman, chil...

• Word Count: 2568
• Approx Pages: 10
• Grade Level: High School