Search Results - "evil"
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Blessing or evil? Contract farming, smallholder poultry production and household welfare in Kenya.
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Important knowledge gaps among pastoralists on causes and treatment of udder health problems in livestock in southern Ethiopia: results of qualitative investigation
Published 2017“…Our analysis also revealed the strong misperception that acute and severe swelling of udder was caused by evil eye. According to the pastoralists, cows with large udders in the late pregnancy are prone to evil eye infliction upon giving birth. …”
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The need for awareness raising on the causes and treatment of mastitis in livestock among pastoralists in southern Ethiopia
Published 2016“…Traditional treatment for evil eye was often administered through nostrils, raising questions about its effectiveness. …”
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Farmer perceptions on indigenous pig farming in Kakamega District, Western Kenya
Published 2010“…Farmers use pigs to guard homes at night, pigs also act as a charm to protect families against evil spirits. Women farmers manage the family pigs, men sell the pigs. …”
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Popular perceptions of tropical ecologists
Published 1996“…As scientists we all share the burden of the portrayal of our medieval origins in the dark and smoky caves of the alchemists--transmuters of matter, independent thinkers about causes and origins, practitioners of the black arts, doubters of the divine order as revealed by the Church of Rome, and maniacal pursuers of arcane knowledge tinged with ideological evil. However, the reputation of science and scientists is complex and ebbs and flows, rising during the Renaissance and Age of Discovery, plummeting with our moral stocks after Hiroshima, only to rise again with Sputnik. …”
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