Dr Debora Moretti
@singinghistori1
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Professional archaeologist, Magic and Witchcraft historian, researcher of the occult. Postdoc researcher for the @healers18341948 project at @UniofHerts
UK/Italy
Joined May 2016
📢 CALL FOR PAPERS 📢 The @CREMSYork Magic and Witchcraft Conference is back for 2025! Come and join us in York (24th - 25th June) to tackle the gnarly question - what is a witch? Answers in abstract form, please - due 14th of March 🧙♀️
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RT @witchesetc: Tomorrow: I'm giving an online history talk on The Witches of St Osyth for The Last Tuesday Society @TheLastTuesdayS Ticket…
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RT @healers18341948: In January 1934 The Occult Digest published an article by astrologer Haasan Osiris suggesting that the great advanceme…
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RT @CeriHoulbrook: Interested in folklore, culture, rituals & beliefs, past & present? Come find out about the MA Folklore Studies taught b…
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RT @odavies9: HIstory of contagious fits your thing? Check out my latest blog for the @healers18341948 project: "The Strange Case of Mass…
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For all the archaeologists out there, or anybody interested in great and well published excavations I am proud to present a digital monograph I was lucky to co-author with some amazing colleagues when working at Headland Archaeology (UK) 😊
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Really excited to do this! It is online so more accessible to everyone 😊
We are pleased to announce that we will be presenting a paper on 19th- and early 20th-century cunning folk and herbalists at the Herbal History Research Network Online Seminar on 19 March 🙂
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Happy New Year everybody! To celebrate my favorite part of the 12 nights I have done a podcast with @witchhuntshow to talk about the great Italian tradition of the Befana. Just a note: it sounds like I am saying Francesco but it is Franco Cardini 😊
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With our latest blog of the year, I wish you all and my wonderful colleagues @healers18341948 a very Happy New Year 🎆
Our final blog of 2024 has arrived, focusing on #Sequah, the great Yorkshire medicine man who earned international acclaim between 1887 and 1895 for his exotic remedies and travelling shows. We hope you will enjoy. Wishing you all a Happy New Year!
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Merry Christmas/Yuletide/festive season everybody!
Wishing you all a wonderful festive season and stay tuned for our final blog of 2024 coming very soon!!!
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@odavies9 They have been on my Christmas’s wish list with my family for a few years so I cannot take all the credit 😊
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@wartsandbrawls Of course for those courses where essays were a must (Italian grammar, Latin etc.) then written essays were done.
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Our new blog is out!!!
Our latest blog is out, exploring why, despite the increasingly rigid attitudes towards abortion in 19th-century Britain, many orthodox medical practitioners became involved in illegal abortion practices, as illustrated by the surprising case of Dr Moon
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