Author: Phillips Stevens Jr.
Phillips Stevens, Jr., is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the State University of New York at Buffalo.
Children, Witches, Demons, and Cultural Reality
A lively and creative imagination in children has always been regarded as a sign of their good health, and throughout the world adults enrich children’s imaginations with magical folktales and encouragement of beliefs in supernatural beings, both good and evil. Imagination helps both cognitive and social/moral development in the child; for adult agents of socialization, …
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