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The power of parasites and worms / Misha Tadd

Serpents and sanitation : a biocultural survey of snake worship, cultural adaptation, and parasitic disease in ancient and modern India / Lesley Jo Weaver and Amber R. Campbell Hibbs

Worms and the corporal body in India : an examination in Hindu literary traditions / Levanya Vemsani

The wasp and the worm : getting inside the body of the sage / Mark G. Pitner

A snake in a basin and a worm in the flesh : external serpents, internal worms, and authority over the body in the Legenda Aurea of Jacob de Voragine / Brenda S. Gardenour

Reading the wormy corpus : ambiguity and discernment in the lives of medieval saints / Alison More

Some considerations regarding the origins and functions of parasites among two Mbya communities in Misiones, Argentina / Marta Crivos, et al.

Parasites and the postcolonial : Williams Sassine's Saint Monsieur Baly / Charlotte Baker

Worms politic : parasitism, textual decay and conjure truth in Gloria Naylor's Moma Day / Amy M. Thomas

Invasion as affliction : worms and bodily infestation in African American Hoodoo practices / Yvonne Chireau

We are what we don't eat : worms, bacteria, and the soil around us / Todd LeVasseur

Inside/out : the body under attack in American popular culture / Julien R. Fielding.

Parasitic diseases > Social aspects.

Parasites > Psychological aspects.

Worms > Psychological aspects.

Human body > Religious aspects.

Anthropology > Comparative method.

Parasitic diseases > psychology.