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16. Demons, Lovers, Sinners and Saints
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Georgia and Hannah are still possessed! The demon stories continue in this episode as we talk about the Japanese Yokai, Tawantinsuyu Supay, and Islamic Shaitan and how ONCE AGAIN everything we have ever known stems from colonization.
Created and co-hosted by Georgia Abrams and Hannah Rucinski.
Sound design by Shannon Webster.
Inspired by your mom's pillow talk.
For further reading:
Japan:
https://yokai.com/introduction/
https://yokai.moifa.org/#/
https://yokai.com/oni/
Fujita, Hiroko, et al. Folktales from the Japanese Countryside. Libraries Unlimited, 2008.
Inca:
MacCormack, Sabine. “Demons, Imagination, and the Incas.” Representations, no. 33 (1991): 121–46. https://doi.org/10.2307/2928760.
Sutherland, Graham, "In the Realm of Supay: The Stories of the Miners" (2011).
Dedenbach-Salazar Sáenz: Deities and Spirits in Andean Belief (October 2017, for Anthropos)
Islam:
https://www.britannica.com/topic/ifrit
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