Magic and witchcraft, Living Sociocultural PhenomenaIt may seem bizarre that at the beginning of the 21st century we still talk about the phenomenon of magic/ witchcraft not as a past social or cultural fact, specific to times when 'wild thinking' was dominant and rational thinking was barely flickering.As you will see from the scientific articles summarised here -which make up issue 28/2023 of the anthropological magazine Martor, published by the Romanian Peasant Museum -beyond the glimmer of a diurnal, rationalist thinking, for contemporary man, magical, nocturnal thinking continues to remain alive and active.From the article "Witches, Sorcerers and Demons in a Remote Corner of Northern Russia at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century" by Christine D. Worobec
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