When the discussion turns to scholarly literature, the classical study
by R. N. Saletore, Indian witchcraft, New Delhi 1981, should be
mentioned. It is some time ago that I looked inside, so I don't
remember whether he says something about persecution.
Best
Martin
Zitat von "Collins, Brian via INDOLOGY" <[email protected]>:
There’s some discuss of this topic in the first couple of chapters
of David Gordon White’s recent Daemons Are Forever.
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Hi Jonathan,
I agree that divining is the primary focus, but if you go through
the entire list, some of the items (e.g., bhūtavijjā,
perhaps "conjuring ghosts") seem to be leaning towards what we think
of as witchcraft, which of course is a somewhat vague term.
best,
Matthew
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Subject: Re: [INDOLOGY] witchcraft info
I well be wrong (it happens alarmingly often) but my sense is that
the Pāli term generally (always?) refers to fortune telling and the
like, although I could see that this might in some ways bleed into
"witchcraft" for some. But in India there are certainly ideas about
beings who manipulate reality in other ways ("sorcerers") and I do
not think that this is to be connnected with tiracchānavijjā.
Jonathan
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Although not expressly involving persecution, the condemnation of
"base arts" (tiracchānavijjā) as "wrong livelihood" (micchājīva) in
the Pali Digha Nikaya (1.21-28 in Walshe's translation) may be worth
considering. Many of the "arts" explicitly mentioned are frequently
associated with "witchcraft." There are no doubt injunctions in the
various Vinaya-s as well.
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Dear Paolo,
Albeit short and less descriptive than we would wish, the three
3rd-4th Century Gāndhārī documents from Niya that mention the
persecution and summary execution of witches, numbers 58, 63, and
248, are the one instance I can think of (you will find the texts in
Boyer, A.M., E. J. Rapson, E. Senart, and P. S. Noble, 1920–29,
Kharoṣṭhī Inscriptions Discovered by Sir Aurel Stein in Chinese
Turkestan (Oxford: Clarendon Press), and Thomas Burrow's English
translation in his 1940 A Translation of the Kharoṣṭhi Documents
from Chinese Turkestan (James G. Forlong Fund. London: The Royal
Asiatic Society), available online at
https://depts.washington.edu/silkroad/texts/niyadocts.html).
The tricky part here is to what extent one can consider Central
Asian Shanshan/Nuava to be Indic/South Asian. My own take here—but
there is a variety of opinion—is that it was a settler-colonial
society in which Gandhāran culture informed the discourse of a
mestizo elite, à la Latin America.
The term khakhorda or khakhorna used for "witch" is particularly
fascinating with its presumed Iranian etymology (~Avestan
ka-xvarəδa). Given that the indigenous people of the kingdom were
probably Iranian speakers, it is likely that the "witchcraft"
reflected indigenous practices. I look forward to seeing if other
people have more references.
namaskaromi,
Diego
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Dear Indologists,
I am wondering if any pre-colonial written source on
witchcraft/magic persecution in South Asia exists.
Sincerely,
Paolo
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