Modern Witchcraft - Gavin and Yvonne introduces you to Witchcraft. Especially for those interested in a new spiritual reality and the fastest-growing religion in the world. First are some reproduced film clips, followed by an actual festival including a sealing and a blessing. There is a lengthy interview with Gavin and Yvonne Frost and some other Wiccan leaders. Also seen are the School's staff, hard at work!
http://www.wicca.org/video/ewt.html

Casting Circles - This tape will provide all the information you need to cast a Church and School of Wicca regulation triple circle. Thus you can create your temple, a place out of time and space, in which you can reverently greet your God-ess and safely change your state of consciousness. During the tape you will see some pictures of Stonehenge and the great circle of Avebury. The unit of measure used in casting our ritual circles is taken directly from measurements corresponding to these great monuments.
http://www.wicca.org/video/ewt.html

Quartier Mozart - One of the most delightfully unexpected African films in decades, Quartier Mozart was awarded the Prix Afrique en Creation at the 1992 Cannes Film Festival and has enchanted film festival audiences from New York to New Dehli. Told over a 48-hour period in a working class neighborhood in Yaounde, Jean-Pierre Bekolo's film is the story of the not-very-sentimental education of a young schoolgirl known as Queen of the 'Hood. Maman Thekla, the local sorceress, helps her enter the body of a young man, My Guy, so she can discover for herself the real "sexual politics" of the quarter. Meanwhile, Maman Thekla herself assumes the shape of Panka, a familiar comic figure in Cameroonian folklore who can cause a man's penis to disappear with a simple handshake.
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Day of Wrath - Carl Theodor Dreyer directed this austere and beautiful tragedy, set in 16th century Denmark. A pastor presides over a trial for witchcraft, ultimately finding the accused guilty. He sentences her to death at the stake.
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Divine Horsemen: The Living Gods of Haiti - This is a fascinating look at the beliefs of Haitian Voodoo (or Voudoun) adherents, and explains the cosmology of this poorly understood religion. The "Divine Horsemen" are the gods (Loas) of voodoo. The nature of each Loa is explained, together with footage of rituals and signs dedicated to it.
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/6303504418/002-4762373-9370416?v=glance

Magical Death - The shaman plays a vital role in Yanomamo society, for it is he who calls, commands, and often is possessed by spirits, or hekura. "Like myriad glowing butterflies dancing in the sky," the hekura come down invisible trails from the mountain tops when they are summoned. A powerful shaman such as Dedeheiwa, who is known even in distant villages, manipulates not only the spirits of the mountains but also those that live within his own body. The body is a vehicle for the hekura: lured by beautiful body paint, they enter the feet and eventually settle in the chest.
http://www.der.org/films/magical-death.html

Faces of Change: Magic and Catholicism - The people of the Bolivian highlands blend in thought and practice the traditional magic of the region and the religion of their conquerors. A fatal automobile accident, coincident with the festival of Santiago, provides occasion for unique expressions of both faith and magic in the effort to influence events.
http://www.der.org/films/magic-and-catholicism.html

A Balinese Trance Séance - Jero Tapakan, a spirit medium in a small, central Balinese village, consults with a group of clients in her shrinehouse. An introduction precedes the main seance, providing a visual impression of a séance and background information on the medium and her profession. The clients wish to contact the spirit of their dead son to discover the cause of his death and his wishes for his cremation ceremony.
http://www.der.org/films/balinese-trance-seance.html

Witchcraft among the Azande - To the Azande of Africa, there is no such thing as bad luck. All misfortune results from witchcraft. The tribe depends on oracles to explain events and predict the future. Here is a Christian tribe where the priest must share his influence with the witchdoctor.
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Rediscovering America: The Salem Witch Trials - The newly settled Puritan town of Salem, Massachusetts, erupted in 1692 with accusations of witchcraft and devil worship. Before the fear and hysteria ebbed, dozens of women had been tried and executd as witches. But did witches really exist? Or were the trials an expression of powerful fears and uncertainties of life in a new land?
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In Search of History: Salem Witch Trials - From The History Channel comes this examination of the infamous 17th-century witch-hunt that ended in the execution of twenty innocent people. In Search of History: Salem Witch Trials retraces the events in depth and attempts to explain how such hysteria and tragedy could've been allowed occur within the confines of an otherwise civilized community.
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The Crucible - The Salem witch hunts are given a new and nasty perspective when a vengeful teenage girl uses superstition and repression to her advantage, creating a killing machine that becomes a force unto itself. Pulsating with seductive energy, this provocative drama is as visually arresting as it is intellectually engrossing. Arthur Miller based his classic 1953 play on the actual Salem witch trials of 1692, creating what has since become a durable fixture of school drama courses.
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The Earth is Our Mother - Anthropologist and psychologist Peter Elsass studied two Indian tribes in Colombia and Venezuela over a 16-year period. In his film, The Earth is Our Mother (Part I), we see their different ways of dealing with encroaching white civilization. The Motilon Indians in the lowland of Venezuela gave up their traditional ways and became dependent on the Catholic missionaries who converted them. They became spiritually and economically impoverished. The Arhuaco Indians, in the mountains of northern Colombia, threw out the missionaries and maintained their cultural integrity. They have an abiding spiritual attachment to their land.
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The Journey Back - In The Journey Back (Part II), the filmmakers return after several years to show the original film to the tribes and learn how they feel about their representation. This follow-up film concentrates on the Arhuaco Indians who continue to maintain their strong spiritual and cultural identity in the face of wide ranging attempts to grab their land, torment their spiritual leaders, and make their independent lifestyle untenable. The Arhuaco are unimpressed with the earlier film even though it attempts to plead their cause to the outside world. Physically small, garbed in pristine white with box-like headdresses, pain smolders on their faces when they speak of the injustice they have suffered, including the assassination of their spiritual leaders. The Journey Back gives voice to the ravages of their colonial history.
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Between Two Worlds: The Hmong Shaman in America - This classic film documents the Hmong refugees who have been transplanted from their agrarian mountain villages in northern Laos to cities in the U.S. Often living in high-rise tenements, they bring their ancient shamanic rituals and ceremonies to urban America. In such unlikely settings, trance-like healing and animal offerings are practiced as they were back home.
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