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As summer wanes and the nights grow long, we turn to tales of witches, curses, and the old ways that never truly died. For centuries, harvest time has carried its own magic: charms for fields, blessings for homes, and darker stories of those who bent nature to their will.
In January 1962, uncontrollable laughter seized a girls’ boarding school in Kashasha, Tanganyika, then leapt from classroom to village to village. Over 18 months, waves of giggling fits, tears, fainting, and fatigue shut down 14 schools and afflicted about 1,000 people across a 100-mile region.
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Research:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/oct/09/un-moves-malawi-staff-vampire-scare
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/oct/19/malawi-mobs-kill-two-more-people-accused-of-being-vampires
https://africanarguments.org/2017/11/a-symbolic-representation-of-life-behind-malawis-blood-sucking-beliefs/
https://www.equaltimes.org/when-rumours-of-blood-suckers-and
https://www.voanews.com/a/malawi-president-crack-down-vampires-witchcraft-after-lynchings/4069571.html
https://www.vice.com/en/article/how-colonialism-fueled-deadly-anti-vampire-hysteria-in-malawi
Thanks so much for listening, and we'll catch up with you again tomorrow!
Sarah and Tobie xx
"Spacial Winds" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License
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As summer wanes and the nights grow long, we turn to tales of witches, curses, and the old ways that never truly died. For centuries, harvest time has carried its own magic: charms for fields, blessings for homes, and darker stories of those who bent nature to their will.
In January 1962, uncontrollable laughter seized a girls’ boarding school in Kashasha, Tanganyika, then leapt from classroom to village to village. Over 18 months, waves of giggling fits, tears, fainting, and fatigue shut down 14 schools and afflicted about 1,000 people across a 100-mile region.
The BOOK
BY US A COFFEE
Join Sarah's new FACEBOOK GROUP
Subscribe to our PATREON
EMAIL us your stories
Follow us on YOUTUBE
Join us on INSTAGRAM
Join us on TWITTER
Join us on FACEBOOK
Visit our WEBSITE
Research:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/oct/09/un-moves-malawi-staff-vampire-scare
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/oct/19/malawi-mobs-kill-two-more-people-accused-of-being-vampires
https://africanarguments.org/2017/11/a-symbolic-representation-of-life-behind-malawis-blood-sucking-beliefs/
https://www.equaltimes.org/when-rumours-of-blood-suckers-and
https://www.voanews.com/a/malawi-president-crack-down-vampires-witchcraft-after-lynchings/4069571.html
https://www.vice.com/en/article/how-colonialism-fueled-deadly-anti-vampire-hysteria-in-malawi
Thanks so much for listening, and we'll catch up with you again tomorrow!
Sarah and Tobie xx
"Spacial Winds" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
SURVEY
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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