[INDOLOGY] witchcraft info

[Paolo Eugenio Rosati]

Dear Diego,

thanks for pointing out this reference.

Best, Paolo

Il giorno ven 4 feb 2022 alle ore 14:26 DIEGO LOUKOTA SANCLEMENTE <
diegoloukota at ucla.edu> ha scritto:

>
>   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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> On Thu, Feb 3, 2022 at 12:42 AM Paolo Eugenio Rosati via INDOLOGY <
> indology at list.indology.info> wrote:
>
>> 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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