#9 Unsilencing: The Colonialism Issue
1 October 2020
“It is no great problem in ethnology and anthropology as to how gypsies became fortune tellers … Wherever shamanism, or the sorcery which is based
Feminists like Alice Markham-Cantor and Silvia Federici argue that stereotypes of crooked-nosed witches on brooms are degrading to women and cover up a bloody history.
This is the mysterious story of one of the most notorious whisperer-witches in Eastern Poland. In a battle between society’s God and the devil, the Polish whisperers fill up their own space of ritual, healing and prayer. Journalist Ada Petriczko goes on a journey to discover their unique role in their community and find a Whisperer who would actually talk to her.