The Sorcerer as Terrorist
…A sorcerer uses their arts and powers to live off peoples’ fear of them. In myths and folktales, from sources as widely spread apart as Russia’s koldun and the mangkukulam from my own country, the sorcerer or witch is depicted as making demands backed up by threats of curses, essentially blackmailing the community. In other words, terrorism….
Thank the gods for the Internet Archive Wayback Machine, else I could not have linked to the source blogpost.
