The Witches' Choir.

This contribution on the material culture of witchcraft and magic provides translations of six songs by the Chór czarownic [the Witches' Choir], a semi-amateur performance-art collective that has come to capture the experience, and the rage, of women in contemporary Poland, and to channel that exper...

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Published in:Magic, Ritual & Witchcraft Vol. 20; no. 2; pp. 280 - 299
Main Author: Ostling, Michael
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Published: University of Pennsylvania Press Fall2025
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