essay
An Analysis of Cherokee sorcery and witchcraft
four centuries of southern indians • Athens • Published In 1975 • Pages: 113-131
By: Fogelson, Raymond D..
Abstract
This study is an atttempt to understand some aspects of the larger structure of Cherokee witchcraft and sorcery beliefs by examining culturally recognized categories of witches and sorcerers. The material presented here combines documentary data with information gathered from informants. The author's treatment of his material is qualitative and inferential, rather than quantitative and firmly documented, but tries to put in order some facts and speculations about Cherokee sorcery and witchcraft and to place these data in perspective relative to comparable beliefs and practices in other societies (p. 117).
- HRAF PubDate
- 2000
- Region
- North America
- Sub Region
- Eastern Woodlands
- Document Type
- essay
- Evaluation
- Creator Type
- Ethnologist
- Document Rating
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- Analyst
- John Beierle ; 2006
- Field Date
- 1958-1961
- Coverage Date
- 1800-1961
- Coverage Place
- North Carolina, United States
- Notes
- Raymond D. Fogelson
- '…[O]riginally presented at the nineteenth annual meeting of the American Society for Ethnohistory held in Athens, Georgia, 13-16 October 1971.'
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 130-131)
- LCCN
- 73085028
- LCSH
- Cherokee Indians