audiobook The Caribbean: A Brief History by Gad Heuman in History

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This is an analysis of a popular scare about black magic and Satanism in Northern Ireland between 1973 and 1974. The book gives an insight into a particularly grim period during the early 1970s in Northern Ireland; using an extremely unusual episode―the black magic rumors―as a privileged window onto a world that may now be behind us; but which continues to fascinate many readers.The book provides a fascinating insight into some of the problems and procedures of social history. The author demonstrates that phenomena like the black magic rumors cannot be understood without taking a multidisciplinary approach; taking in perspectives and comparative evidence from anthropology; sociology; folklore and media studies.