The reasons driving Jordanian youth to resort to witches and sorcerers: a socio-anthropological study from the point of view of Yarmouk university students

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The study aimed to find out the reasons and factors driving Jordanian youth to resort to witches and sorcerers from the point of view of Jordanian university youth, and to clarify the relationship between these reasons and factors with some variables: (gender, place of residence, academic specialization, monthly family income in dinars, educational level the study was conducted on a deliberate sample of (1770) male and female students at Yarmouk university.

the researcher relied on the descriptive analytical approach in studying this phenomenon and used the questionnaire as a main tool and means in collecting field data for this purpose.

the study concluded that there are many reasons and factors that push Jordanian youth to resort to witches and charlatans, the most important of which are: the absence of the role of clerics in raising awareness, counseling, and explaining the punishment for those who resort to witches and charlatans, and the weakness of the religious motivation among those who resort to these witches and charlatans.

these two paragraphs ranked in the same second place with a mean of (4.23).

the study revealed that: women are the ones who resort most to witches and sorcerers, as this paragraph ranked first among the paragraphs, with an arithmetic average of (4.42), and that a woman’s fear of childbearing / divorce or her husband marrying another woman drives her by resorting to sorcerers and sorcerers, in addition to the presence of feelings of envy, hatred and jealousy, which also help in resorting to these sorcerers.

the study showed that the absence of legal accountability and lack of media awareness contributed to the continuity of the work of these sorcerers and sorcerers.

the study showed that there were no statistically significant differences at the significance level (α= 0.05) due to the variables of gender, place of residence, academic specialization, monthly family income in dinars, and educational level of the head of the family.

the researchers recommended conducting more studies on this phenomenon.